“Who hasn’t fantasized about a house that makes day-to-day life easier? Certainly the trendy guy on the Apple commercials looks more relaxed — and like he’s having a lot more fun — than his frumpy, brown-suited, PC counterpart. Perhaps it’s because Mac Dude’s house is full of gadgets that streamline a busy urbanite’s hectic schedule,” Kimberly Hill writes for MacNewsWorld. “Maybe he lives in a house something like this one…”
MacDailyNews Note: The “Mac Dude,” Justin Long, is playing a Macintosh personal computer, not a Mac user. He’s “more relaxed” because of his OS. That said, let’s play along…
“As in many homes today, the centerpiece of Mac Dude’s living room is a huge, wall-mounted, high-definition TV. The brand and technology (plasma, LCD) matter less than the size. Fifty inches is a minimum. Compared to this, the small, white Apple TV unit sitting on the shelf below barely is noticeable,” Hill writes.
“Through that little box, though, stream movies, TV shows, and video podcasts to the big screen, all from iTunes,” Hill writes. “When the host and his guests don’t care to watch the glowing screen, they still can listen to audio podcasts and, of course, music through the audio speakers scattered through the house and linked into the home theater system via WiFi . They control all this through the Remote app for iPhone, which also transmits over the house’s wireless network. Who wants to carry two clickers around?”
Mac Dude never feels disconnected, because his iPhone has both 3G and WiFi capabilities. He uses the Easy WiFi iPhone app made by Devicescape to find and join publicly accessible networks along his route. He’s an AT&T wireless subscriber (not one of those who’s hacked his iPhone to work on another wireless carrier), so he knows that at the very least, he’ll be able to get online at most Starbucks locations,” Hill writes.
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Carl H.” for the heads up.]