Apple to make security sexy in 2012?

“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.”

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