Dream Home doesn't include Apple

[jayducharme]

I found this curious, seeing as Steve Jobs is Disney's largest shareholder. Maybe he'd rather Microsoft give away its future technologies than Apple.

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March 17, 2008
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080317/BUSINESS/803170490/1007/business&tc=yahoo
By Tom Bayles


ANAHEIM, CA -- Bradenton-based home builder Taylor Morrison (TM) has
agreed to build Disneyland's (DL) "Innovations Dream Home" at the
California theme park. The 5,000-sq-ft house, to be built in
Tomorrowland, will showcase current and future technological advances
in home building, featuring actors playing the fictional Elias family
as they move from room to room preparing for a trip to China. It is
scheduled to open in late May. "We're excited to partner in this
venture with DL," said Sheryl Palmer, TM's president and CEO. "I'm
sure many of us remember the wonder and excitement of visiting
Tomorrowland for the first time as children."

TM will work with Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and software
maker LifeWare on the attraction. The home will replace the park's
"House of the Future" attraction, originally built in 1957 and
demolished 10 years later.
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© Sarasota Herald-Tribune

 

[EricNau]

Maybe he'd rather Microsoft give away its future technologies than Apple.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. If Apple was participating in "the home of the future" it would be filled with nothing but their current products.

 

[TEG]

The reason for this is that Microsoft allows for major customizations using Window Embedded CE and Embedded XP. Something Apple is not even close to letting people do, otherwise my work would be using it instead of crappy CE for our work.

TEG