The looming crisis in the digital home

*Michael Gartenberg has covered the personal technology beat for more than two decades at places like Gartner, Jupiter Research and Altimeter Group. Most recently, he spent a few years at Apple as Sr. Director of Worldwide Product Marketing. */ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ Vendors must take responsibility for the home network and provide complete end-to-end solutions for consumers. Those that do so, like Apple, can emerge victorious in the battle for the digital home. Not too long ago, consumers only had to deal with a single screen in the home — the television set. Over time, some added a second or third television, as well as an entirely new category of screen in the form of the personal computer. Now, TVs and PCs are common in most homes. And so is the dramatic increase in complexity they bring to consumer infrastructure. The growth of multiple screens and devices in the home now presents a challenge for all vendors. Screens within the home have gone from disconnected to co...

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