iLife will be the future of Apple

Remember - you heard it here first.

The key was something that Steve Jobs said when they introduced Garage Band - iLife is like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life. And that is what Apple wants. As much as Jobs loves hardware - I think he's seen that the Dark Tower in Redmond has made it's gazillions not by being a hardware maker - but a software maker. And yes, MS makes money from Windows - but it's real revenues come from MS Office.

So, here's my theory, Jobs wants iLife to be MS Office of digital lifestyle apps. Face it, almost everyone has a digital camera now. Most have camcorders as well. People love to create music as well as listen to it. Welcome to iLife. And soon - lets say maybe 2005? - I anticipate seeing iLife for Windows based PCs. Why not right?

Think about it, Jobs did the right thing by making iTunes available for th PC. After all, there are over 100 million iPod owners that have PCs not Macs. Even if they jack the price up a bit for iLife on the PC (say $129 or something like that) they still have a huge audience. And what a great suite of apps - you can't touch what they do for under $500 and more like $1,000.

So, like I said, remember you heard it here first, iLife goes Windows. We'll see if I'm right ;-)