Best Buy's ConnectedLife One-Ups Geek Squad 113
Retail writes "Best Buy is going to sell a packaged solution of Media Center plus home automation. Literally, it's a package — a box. A customer walks into a Best Buy store, delights in the demo, buys the package, and waits for its arrival in a big box about four-foot square. The package costs $15,000. For that you get a Media Center PC, Lifeware automation software from Exceptional Innovation, an Xbox 360, IP surveillance cameras, automated light switches, a thermostat and installation. It's a complicated business model, called ConnectedLife.Home, and it's bound to pit the new group against other Best Buy factions like Geek Squad."
Just wondering (Score:5, Funny)
$15k (Score:5, Funny)
Like most Best Buy customers, I should be able to afford this package. At $15,000 it's a steal, really.
I imagine... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:weeeeeeee (Score:3, Funny)
The question would be, if the box comes with Cowboyneal inside....
Dualing Factions! (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, imagine the mêlée at the company picnics.
[unsure whether to tag this "biz" "automation" "slownewsday" or "slashertizement"]
The Target Market is Clear (Score:3, Funny)
Using Microsoft software ? (Score:5, Funny)
And do you have to reboot it every night ?
Thankfully... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Using Microsoft software ? (Score:3, Funny)
What a strange procedure to put customers through. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thankfully... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Using Microsoft software ? (Score:3, Funny)