Bob O'Donnell

The key takeaway from this year’s WWDC was all about Siri, Messages, Maps and Music.

Changes in server design will have a real-world impact on everyone who uses both traditional and new computing devices.

Expect to see a lot of efforts geared toward improving the accuracy and reliability of our interactions with these voice-controlled helpers.

Brands like Dell are developing complete new lines of desktop PCs specifically for VR.

You can’t just assume that IT will be paying for all the new sensors, gateways, networking equipment, analytics hardware and software.

A machine capable of reacting to real-world visual, auditory or other type of data -- and then responding in an intelligent way -- has been the stuff of science fiction until very recently.

There’s still plenty of opportunity to build and sell hardware. But it’s going to be a very different kind of hardware market.

Expect some vigorous new platform battles that will keep our bot interactions from achieving the kind of awe-inspiring wizardry of which they are potentially capable.