In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) make their predictions for 2010.John's Predictions
Google will give Apple the most competition of any other company in mobile
Apple will begin to take web services seriously, embrace "content in the cloud"
Early adopters will burn out on social media
eBook readers will become mainstream, $9.99 will remain the standard price point. Big publishers scream in agony. Magazine publishers need it to survive.
Facebook's privacy settings will spur lawsuits
Live and real-time will be commonplace among early adopters
Steve's Predictions:
SEO is Dead! Long-live real-time search
The fax machine will see a resurgence via twitter
iPhone and Android adoption will start driving down data plan costs to make mobile data almost free
Apple's Tablet will be a no-show or way too expensive to be relevant
Microsoft will finally lose ubiquity with IE due to the EU settlement and the push of Firefox, Chrome and other Webkit browsers (Safari)
Location based apps will be standard for all devices (mobile and otherwise)
No one in the ODM Crew will buy a Blueray player or disc EVER!
By Q4 2010 30% of all TV sold will be Internet capable
Cloud computing ... was the hype in 2009, but will be a standard for all tech companies including Apple
Facebook will hit 500M users by the end of the year
Craig' s Predictions:
Hyper local will be old news
You'll have no Mac tablet and like it
Tiger Woods will keep sponsorship with EA Sports Gaming
Bing will leave Yahoo in the dust and easily take over 2nd place in search
The Bing iphone app will be huge
Chia-Lin's predictions:
Android will be 15% of the smartphone market in US market by end of 2010, Android market place will be extensive
Lala will be Apple's cloud/web service for media distribution, starting to minimize their download model
The eReader market will heat up by Q4 , 2010. The Kindle will hit critical mass for Q4 holiday season, and go for a sale price of $100
The magazine "hulu" by the consortium of magazine providers will build momentum by Q3 in terms of partnerships, but not launch until 20115.
Chia-Lin will have the Starwars sleeping bag from ThinkGeek that was featured in Gizmodo (sleeping in guts is the way to keep warm on a frozen planet after all...). Will never be able to get a mini-donut maker since she is devoting 2010 to taking a pilates classes and getting in shape...
Chia-Lin may end up with a iphone...tech gods willing...(or else, she will have to go with the Droid by mid next year)
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