More price-conscious consumers may also like Apple's eMac line, originally introduced as an educational computer but now sold as a bargain-priced (for Apple) consumer machine.
All the rage at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connections now cover much more than just smart energy delivery and smart cars.
Mobility encompasses everything from consumer tablets and smartphones to machine-to-machine technology and mobile applications.
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While both companies have common roots in the computing business, Apple under Mr. Jobs has built itself into a profit machine through a string of hit consumer electronics products, starting with the iPod digital media player, followed by the iPhone, plus the iPad earlier this year.
In fact, all programming exists at a certain level of abstraction, from machine language on up to preference settings in consumer user interfaces.
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The second case is machine learning where the software applications are taught to anticipate consumer needs and respond to them quickly.
Meanwhile, a firm like Microsoft, which grew up in the computer industry, can use the same fusion of technology to enter the consumer-electronics market with a PC which looks like a games machine.
This symbiotic match made in heaven between China and the US consumer worked great as long as housing prices kept rising and the financial machine kept multiplying dollars.
Mitek's technology increases convenience for the consumer by eliminating the need to go to the bank branch or automated teller machine, and dramatically reduces processing and customer acquisition costs while increasing customer retention.
Discounting the brief period after World War II when underutilized machine shops turned out bedroom furniture, this is Boeing's first consumer business.
And while Apple got its start as a computer company, Jobs has slowly shifted the company into consumer electronics, with the iPod displacing Sony's Walkman as the world's favorite personal music machine.
The consumer division of Compaq, the world's leading computer maker, is also working on a desktop machine that folds up "like a book, " keyboard and all, when out of use, says Franklin Sze, senior product marketing manager for Compaq's greater China division.
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