Comments on: Predictions 2010

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:29:14 +0000

I'm visiting from Gruber's blog, so I was expecting the iPad miss. I was more interesting in seeing if you were far off the mark in other stuff..

1...is a joke. You could say that started to happen in 2009 if you wanted. Or 2010. Or 2011. Pegging the "beginning" of something that's as fuzzy as that is a bit whimsical.

2. I'd say nope. Google is certainly trying to do more than search engines, but I'm pretty sure they're just lying in wait to pounce on facebook.

3. Nope. Technically, it depends on your definition of major, but it'd have to be pretty liberal in order to be a 'yep'.

4. Nope.

5. Nope.

6. Completely nope.

7. Nope.

8. Nope.

9. Not sure, but I doubt it.

10. I don't recall anything noteworthy here.

11. Nothing that made news.

12. Maybe!

I'm sure this can be spun more positively, but it looks pretty inaccurate to me. I'm not trying to say _at all_ that I'd do better. Predicting is hard stuff.

By: Scott G. Lewis

Scott G. Lewis — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:02:41 +0000

It’s okay to admit it… the iPad is not anything other than a huge, critically acclaimed runaway success. Seriously… a push? Why, because some reviewers said it would need A, B and C to be viable? The entire world spoke… it didn’t need those things.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:47:21 +0000

Thanks to DF, I got to read some truly amusing stuff. This was comedy gold. Why is it so many of these "predictions" are nothing more than the writer's wishful thinking and a want-list?

I have one big question: WHAT is "culturally integrated voice recognition"? Where did that come from? What does it even mean, besides nothing?

By: ehed

ehed — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:41:53 +0000

Number 5 — nailed it! Oh, wait…

By: shan

shan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:36:40 +0000

Google Buzz?

3. 2010 will see a major privacy brouhaha,...

By: PacRim Jim

PacRim Jim — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:06:30 +0000

Once the U.N. takes over the Web, it will be time for private webs, to ensure freedom of speech.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:34:51 +0000

I suppose it’s in Google’s best interests if their users see them as a software company instead of what they really are… a media company. That way people will not think about all of the information that they collect about you. Facebook realized people will figure this out sooner or later about social networking, so they might as well put it all out there. It’s probably contradictory, but I refuse Google’s TOS for location services on my mobile phone while I do have a Facebook account. Though I did come close to quitting over Beacon.

By: Tutor

Tutor — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:20:52 +0000

I agree that, " Google will make a corporate decision to become seen as a software brand rather than as "just a search engine."

Five or six years ago, Google was THE only tool around. Now with more competition, especially BING, Google will have to 'brand' itself in order to compete.

By: Kazan tatar

Kazan tatar — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:15:05 +0000

2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web? Hm… Allow me to doubt, I think that is an illusion.

By: Omar Khan

Omar Khan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:29:33 +0000

I disagree with 5. I think the iTablet will be a success. Being an avid user of the iPhone, and a 13 inch Mac laptop, I have enjoyed seeing the physical hardware footprint of these devices shrink. The iphone is too small to do many thing, and the laptop a bit too big. I want something lighter on my lap, something even easier to put into a carrying case, something to watch video at a larger size on and brwose the Internet, where so many apps are going. The iTablet seems like it will fit that bill.