“iPhone 5 is coming. With it we’ll begin using our phones to pay for things at shops. we’ll be using it as a tickets for live events, as a boarding pass, a travelcard, wallet and, eventually, as proof of identity,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “iTunes music streaming will launch in mid-summer (ie. It will help boost interest in the iPhone). Given Apple has only one data center (albeit a huge one in North Carolina) I predict the company will launch iTunes music streaming in the US first, rolling it out to other territories as it secures clearances from copyright holders and invests in infrastructure to support its services.”
“This year Apple will be offering an always-connected, completely integrated personal ecosystem which combines all the best elements of desktop and mobile computing through the aegis of the Cupertino cloud,” Evans writes. “From 2011 every being on this planet (at least, each and every one in a position to purchase the requisite Apple-branded products) will be in position to carry all their data, productivity projects and more with them anywhere, access them from anywhere, and edit and make changes to their own data using any chosen Apple device.”
Evans writes, “Apple’s next step will be to make security sexy. It must. Because the future connected-planet needs security to be over 100 percent before it is born. The company has already begun. Last month it appointed former National Security Agency analyst and author David Rice as its global director of security. Security is the biggest challenge Apple faces as it moves to define the future of technology in modern living. Security is the new frontier.”
Read much more in the full article – recommended – here.
Making security sexy, huh?…
Is Apple hiring that T-Mobile 4G girl they use in their commercials?!… Hubba, hubba…
If Apple only has one data center where have they been running the iTunes store, software update, web sites, etc from while the NC data center has been under construction? I’m thinking they probably have a few more somewhere.
They used Akamai’s systems, big time, for years
Doesn’t Apple have a data center in Newark CA? If a writer can’t make it through one paragraph without showing that he is a “no fact-checking idiot”, especially since they write for a “computer” magazine and should know these things. The writer shouldn’t expect anyone to take the rest of his mumblings with any seriousness ? It only took me about a minute to confirm this, and I ain’t gettin’ paid….
I find think its laughable… NC isn’t even online yet, at last check.
Fact checking is for wussies.
Exactly. And one in Cupertino, also.
And we expect journalists to check their sources? How presumptuous.
That old standby, Apple streaming music service. Everyone pulls out that hoary old chestnut every few months and tries to sell it. It’s as if every other streaming music service has failed through bad management and not lack of interest. Apple can fix and make money with a lot of failed concepts/products but music streaming can’t be done better when no one is interested.
If God wanted streaming music he wouldn’t have invented FM Radio and that inferior kbps Satellite Radio.
Apple made security sexy with the release of OS X.
I thought security already was sexy.
Sexy Security:
The Macafee Virus Calendar?.
Intego Girls Gone Wild?.
“Because the future connected-planet needs security to be over 100 percent before it is born.”
That’s right, 110% security. That must be to make up for the -10% security offered by Microsoft ;-P
The perfect marriage of sexy and security is already here:
Not just epic…legendary caption.
And who will protect us from “former National Security Agency analyst and author David Rice”.
Your tinfoil hat, of course.
*in closet with tinfoil hat….
“they won’t get me!!!”
Oh my. Now we’re just using the term sexy way too loosely.