Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Billion Dollar Brain

In a recent post I speculated about the concept of Apple making a television. In part it was a flippant post but interestingly enough this article on techcrunch treads a similar tangent about Apple's intentions in the TV space. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/21/apple-tv-kill-cable/

The real standout fact that hits me is that Apple is building a $1 bn data center. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/26/apple-planning-1-billion-idatacenter/

To date I've always considered Apple a design and device shop - but spending $1 bn on something to support iTunes and MobileMe - I don't think so. You'd have to sell lots of singles on iTunes to fund that (well a billion I guess!)

Whatever the plans Steve Jobs has for this datacenter I suspect that the ambitions are considerable.

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