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Apple to Rule the Digital Home by 2013?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the apple-speculation-america's-new-pastime dept.

Stony Stevenson writes to tell us that a new study from Forrester Research is taking a crack at what seems to have become a hobby for so many, predicting Apple's market strategy. Specifically, Forrester is predicting that Apple will become the 'hub of the digital home by 2013.' "Forrester predicts that Apple will offer eight key products and services to connect PCs and digital content to the TV-stereo infrastructure in consumers' homes. A 're-engineered' Apple Store will expand into in-home installation services to deliver what Forrester describes as a 'fully integrated digital experience.'"

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  1. Re:Apple May Well Rule, But Forrester Misses Why by sunspot42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Exactly. People don't get it, yet. They treat it like a phone that just happens to run OS-X. Wrong. It's a tiny Mac with phone functionality and a (by default) custom phone interface. There's no reason why you couldn't add a monitor and keyboard and have a full-fledged "desktop" PC. It's already more powerful than many PCs were a decade ago - this year's revision and next year's revision should shave that gap down to as little as 5 years.

    Apple's brought the first practical, popular Dynabook to market. If they play their cards right, they could dominate personal computing within 10 years, going way beyond Microsoft in terms of customer impact.