Future Forecast: You Will Share Everything
Today's technology makes it very easy to know everything about you. In fact, if they are not selling to you, they are selling you. Now doing both at the same time is very much possible.
It is now less than a day until Apple will unveil its newest version of their golden standard for phones. It will be faster, sleeker and more powerful. But that is not all. Along Apple on their event is Facebook announcing its app, most probably on the iOS. Kindle Fire is also a hot item. This Amazon device is their portable cash register to you. The trend today for companies is that you have to share everything. What you like, what you wear, what you eat, where you are, who are you and what you have.
Data is the new currency of today's economy. It makes it possible for Amazon to sell you a device and take a loss. It makes it possible for Facebook to be forever free. It makes it possible for you to think of not getting an iPad for the next few minutes and instead buy a Kindle Fire. And all you need is to send your data to process, analyze and transform it into marketing data. That marketing data makes it possible for the companies to send you targetted ads and recommendations to influence your next purchase.
At tomorrow's Apple conference, it is becoming highly possible that the new iPhone besides from having hardware upgrades and more ergonomic design that it would be more connected to the social networks, Facebook in particular. The iPhone and iPad are high end devices, highly coveted because of the prestige it comes with by being an Apple device, design and user friendliness. Apple don't even need to cut their price. There is no need for them to make a social group like Facebook. In fact, Facebook needs Apple. That is why they would be in the Apple conference. They need the Apple userbase because they are more loyal to the Apple brand than Facebook users to Facebook itself. They would jump to the next social network if they are better than Facebook in any way. It is happening now.
Addressing the Apple cloud service, it is without any doubt that they will feature this product at the conference. At their side along with iCloud is iTunes. They would be going head to head with Amazon. Pretty soon, people would be putting up their documents into iCloud. And they would be accessing them in their phones, tablets and computers. Why? Because people want to work on their files anywhere even on other computers everywhere. It would be wireless and available on every iOS, so what is new? If rumors of Apple's negotiation for an international music license is true then that would be what they would be revealing at their "Let's talk iPhone" event. This could make all your music in the iCloud available to you in other countries. Strange as that sound, but you can't access music that you bought and stored on iCloud in other countries.
It is becoming more clear that Apple does not only want them to be the nexus of your technological world but your life as well. Remember that they could track your phone, making it possible for them to know where you are. Apps market knows your buying and spending habits. Now, they want to be your hard drive in the sky. If that is not enough, they are letting Facebook in so that they would also know every facet of your life if you happen to share too much in Facebook.
Now the Apple TV is not sounding so silly now isn't it?