Prediction #1

As Apple will become a home entertainment hub electronics manufacturer, I predict that we will see Apple computers (media hubs?) with an Instant-On feature. And what is this Instant-On feature, you ask? Well, from my point of view it is an evolved Frontrow embedded into flash ram. By simply pressing a button on the remote, Frontrow will launch a function selection screen on your TV or monitor. Why boot up the computer, when you want to watch a DVD, listen to music through Itunes or listen to your CDs and portable media files? If you do wish to do more extensive computing, such as writing, encoding media files and so on, you will choose a startup computer module. It will perhaps be so that the MacOS itself will load in the background when you use the Instant-On feature of Frontrow. Anyway, the Instant-On feature is something that I predict we will see in future Apple products. In essence we have these features in other products already, look at consoles, the Ipod, mobile phones and others. Press a button, and it is on. This is something I hope Apple will do for their products.