2008 predictions

They will begin recalling it right after they release SP 3 for Windows XP which is by far the better operating system.

Leslie Iain Kay
iainkayphd@bellsouth.net

with a price drop they kinda have admitted its bad

Its like they have no choice.

Because the stuff they are selling now looks OK on a laptop or iPhone but not so hot on a 40 plus inch HDTV. I was shocked at how bad the two TV shows and one movie I had purchased looked when my friend hooked his Apple TV up to my new 46" flatscreen. The "near DVD quality" Steve promised may be believable on a standard-def CRT but its not very believable on anything larger with higher definition.

If they don't get better quality rentals (and more studios on board) the Apple TV will continue to flounder.

The cell phone providers will accept that they have colluded with each other to sell services that that the average Joe does not want. In particular free phones are a scam. There is no free lunch - there never was. The technology (satellites, relay stations etc are nearly fully paid for) and is now in place so that the providers can actually reduce their prices and stop taking an ever larger proportion of the American hard workers pay check.

See oil companies and pharmaceutical companies for "price reductions" on technology.

Windows Vista sp1 will be a flop.. giving no improvements to the system and no reason to upgrade *still*

Sp3 will cause more people to get windows xp.

Vista will be considered ME's Son for all time

Vista SP1 might be a flop ROFL.

Just to throw around another "prediction" I expect that maybe Microsoft will release the Zune 3 and that we might hear more about the Google phone play in direct competition with both the Iphone and the Zune (sound pretty absurd doesn't it?!?!), but I pretty much suck at these anyway.

2007 business models that exploded in growth and value where FREE.

Myspace, Craigslist, Youtube etc.

It's now time to hybryd these models into pay to use but in subscription form.

What is old is not new but virtual. Whatever exists in print or the physical only needs to be transformed into e-digital.

Craigslist is classified ads online so my thoughts are that the webpage layout that is ever expanding will now have enough landscape to place local box ads.

The average screen size is expanding and the only fault I find is that the web should be viewed length wise not width wise.

But the big winner is going to be anything "live" broadcasted.

Anyone can automate selling you a product across the world but you you really aren't being sold. NO!

Print was transformed and archived video changed but live broadcasting around the world is what I am positioning to.

Television and especially news is still status quo but not for long.

Anyway enough said for now.

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Check with ON2 tech.

She is a star. She gives good radio. Her on air personality is engaging. However you want to say it she is marketable as H-E-Double toothpicks.

I think the show is as good now as it ever has been. I listen to every episode though often several days behind. I started listening just before the infamous 'Gas Pies' rant. I think Tom and Jason mixed with Molly is a great cocktail but I believe she can go many places and will because it is too lucrative to pass on.

Personally, I hope I am wrong about this.

Proprietary UNIX guy

In the "olden days" like 1984, the business machine was the Word Processor, basically an electric typewriter with a screen. Within a short amount of time, those business machines evolved into technology that could do more than just work with text. So calling a computer a "word processor" is only one aspect of what it can do. That's how I feel about calling something a "phone" - it is just one of the functions of the item.

PREDICTIONS/HOPES:
I think there will be more blending of functions and more robust capabilities. Tech will continue the direction the iphone has initiated by consolidating music, voice, graphics, social network, text,web...all the goodies, streamlined and simplified (affordable). I'd like to see better options for satellite music, like a free subscription for brief sampling like wifi hot spots. I wish the fm receiver on my gadgets wouldn't fuzz out when I walk inside a building.

My predicition (hope) is that wireless power(charging)and "green" batteries will show up more. I'd like to see more options in the waterproof MP3 Players and over the air downloads, like updating my podcasts without linking to the mothership (I know this is happening already somewhat). I'd like to have wireless sound as clear, convenient and affordable as corded headphones, a bluetooth without the bling.

I think games like the Wii will get people of all ages to get active again and try to combat our country's growth (girth) problem. Wii can do it America!

Well those are my hopes and predictions and I've got to believe some will come true!

Rising cost of oil is going to harm the economy eventually as it just seems to keep going up.

My only surprise is that it has taken this long. This post isn't about discussions, It's about what you believe the future will bring. So, lets hear your predictions. What does your crystal ball say to you?

The line between broadcast television and net television will continue to blur in a big way.

Sales of cell phones will drop as people realize that there money would be better spent elsewhere, like there families. PDAs will regain ground.

Two new OSs will enter the market one by Google, one by Yahoo/Sun.

DSL service prices will remain the same as speeds double. (Mostly this one is just wishful thinking.)

Yahoo will develop two new dazzling online products in 2008.

Anti trust rumbling will develop in Washington as slowly legislators realize that Microsoft is a monopoly.

Mac will fail due to improvements in Vista, Linux and Adobe applications. There customers will move to Microsoft.

Web awards will appear in 2008. The grand daddy of them all will be the Gates Award.