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, in the end, as proof of identity,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “iTunes music streaming will launch in mid-summer. Given Apple has only one data center 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.”

Always-connected

“This year Apple will be offering an always-connected, completely integrated personal ecosystem which combines all the best components of desktop and mobile computing through the aegis of the Cupertino cloud,” Evans writes. “From 2011 every being on this planet 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 at once step will be to make security sexy. It must. Because the future connected-planet needs security to be over 100 percent earlier 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 research in modern living. Security is the new frontier.”

The iTunes store

If Apple only has one data center where have they been running the iTunes store, software update, web sites, etc from during the NC data center has been in accordance with construction? I’m thinking they probably have a few more somewhere.

Doesn’t Apple have a data center in Newark CA? If a writer can’t make it through one paragraph without showing that he is a “no fact-checking idiot”, especially since they write for a “computer” magazine and should know these things. The writer shouldn’t expect anyone to take the rest of his mumblings with any seriousness ? It only took me about a minute to confirm this, and I ain’t gettin’ paid….

That old standby, Apple streaming music service. Everyone pulls out that hoary old chestnut every few months and tries to sell it. It’s as if every other streaming music service has failed through bad management and not lack of interest. Apple can fix and make money with a lot of failed concepts/products now music streaming can’t be done better when no one is interested.