The technology magazine WIRED wrote an article about how Apple devices will control every aspect of our lives. The most important thing about what Apple presented on Tuesday was not a product, but the way in which all of its products, as well as those of other IT companies, will be omnipresent with their users and will essentially know their every move.
What emerges from the unveiling of the new iPhone and Apple's smartwatch is the company's ambition to play an active role in the lives of its device users.
Now the slogan "A computer on every desk?" is no longer valid since with iPhones, Apple Watch, Apple Pay, HomeKit, HealthKit, iBeacon, CarPlay, Apple is creating a world where there is a computer in every activity we do and which interacts. It wakes up and sleeps with us
A computer in our pocket, a computer in our body, a computer to pay for all our purchases. A computer that will open the door to our hotel room. A computer that will show on its screen our movements inside a shopping mall. A computer that will control our sleep.
A computer that will control all the devices in our home. A computer in the car that will tell us where to park. A computer that will take our pulse, tell us how much we walked, how many calories we burned, and share all of this with our friends. And all of this will be done from the same computer.
A computer that will connect to the phone in our pocket, to the watch computer we wear on our wrist, to the computer we have in the car, at work. This is Apple's new ecosystem. The company has turned our world into a big computer that is always and everywhere present.
Imagine the world six months from now
Imagine waking up in the morning and the lights in your house turning on automatically thanks to Apple's HomeKit settings, which will even tell you what the right temperature is to set the heating in your house. Then - if you're one of those who exercise and go for a run - your Apple Watch will tell you how far you've gone, count the calories you've burned, and check your pulse.
He will know which route you followed, and he will have already created the exercise program that you should follow.
When you return home, you will hear a news report, which you have selected and programmed in iTunes, and you will be able to listen to it in all the rooms of your house thanks to the Sonos program. As you go from room to room, the iBeacons will follow you.
Then your boss will call you on the phone, you will answer and continue talking to him until you get to the car and as soon as you start the engine the call will automatically be transferred to the car speakers. As soon as you hang up you will hear the continuation of the podcast with the news.
On your way to the office, you realize you have a wound. You ask Siri where there is a pharmacy and she will guide you to the nearest one. You buy the medicine and pay with your watch via Apple Pay. Then you can plan your evening by asking Siri to find you a good Thai restaurant near the office.
It finds it for you, and you make a reservation through the OpenTable app on your Apple Watch. Later, you use the same app to pay for dinner.
When you arrive at the office, the watch will note where you parked your car. Once you leave, you will look at the watch again to show you what obligations you have for the day.
But the most impressive thing is that all these pieces of the giant digital puzzle already exist. Anyone who has an iPhone is already in the system. The big computer works even when you sleep. The world around us is filled with sensors, they are everywhere we go. Now we are placing them on our bodies, in our homes.
Apple's ecosystem looks like a swamp
This is what Tim Cook means when he says that they all work together now. It's a set of devices that works under this concept. However, the Wired article concludes that Apple's ecosystem is like a swamp that invades our lives the deeper we get into it. But we say it doesn't matter because it's a nice swamp.
Source: defencenet.gr
