2010 Technology Predictions [+rep for playing!]

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Just to go through the tablet predictions from the first 120 posts (if there were any after that feel free to quote yourself and brag about how right you were!)

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Originally Posted by The Professor

Myspace will be closed down or bought by an obscure company and will be never be heard from again
Apple will release a tablet computer which will fail on its arse
We will see a glimpse of one of the next generations of games console
Windows mobile will take a massive market share hit and will be released on very few new phones by december
Opera desktop browser will increase it's market share
Half life 2 episode 3 won't come out

Apple definately released a tablet computer and it hasn't been universally accepted as awesome so I'll have half a point atm, we'll see if that comes true.

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Originally Posted by Jordy

Apple's tablet will be surprisingly popular, forcing other manufacturers to begin making them (Dell tablet anyone?)

Half points, other manufacturers making them in response happened before apple even announced it :P Again, popularness is yet to be seen.

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Originally Posted by Recursion

Apple will release a tablet PC that will fail due to a terribly huge pricetag

It was definately released but the price tag isn't mental so yeah.

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Originally Posted by Boonzeet

Saying 'touchscreen is going to be a standard' is incredibly unrealistic, but Apple's touchscreen device, either the iSlate or the iGuide to be announced possibly January 22nd, as a 10" touchscreen tablet computer capable of running applications in a similar fashion to the iPhone.

Spot on except the name!

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Originally Posted by DUBSTEP

Apple tablet will be very expensive
Windows 8 won't be announced as 7 is really good (imo)

Its subjective but imo the prices aren't as high as some expected them to be so we'll call that one a fail :)

Microsoft will go back on it's word and at the end of the year release Halo 4 (:P)
A new type of internet site like Facebook will take off
Facebook won't start charging users for money
Habboxforum will have a server upgrade
Msn will get sold from Windows to some other company (H)

hehe

Sorry but there's no way you can make predictions of the forthcoming year seeing as we're a month into it, there's already been CES, Apple have done a keynote and many companies have announced their intentions over the year :P

This guy talks sense ^

It's probably time to close this thread, then.

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Originally Posted by Jordy

Sorry but there's no way you can make predictions of the forthcoming year seeing as we're a month into it, there's already been CES, Apple have done a keynote and many companies have announced their intentions over the year :P

But companies like Apple don't announce what it is going to do throughout the year. Although we can pretty much guess that there will be a new iPhone in June/July time. :P

Adding to that, alot of companies add unique things to their products throughout the year and build up to release. So the HP tablet for example, may feature something different, or a worker at Microsoft may create something that blows the minds of the bosses at MS and something new comes out on the Windows 7 tablet OS. CES is just a general outlook, really :)

Ye but the point was you make the prediction at the beginning of the year and see if it comes true, if you wait until later when rumours have started and stuff its kidna cheating :(

A quarter of the way through now and I have some spare time on my hands, I'll go through some predictions in the first 40 posts and see where we are with them :)

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Originally Posted by The Professor

CNET's buzz out loud podcast do this every year (as I'm sure a lot of other publications do too) so I thought this might be fun on hxf!

Basically post what you think will (or won't) happen during the next year in the tech world. It can be things on the internet, new devices and software that might or might not come out or a paradigm shift that you think will happen that no-one else saw coming (like mp3 players being implanted into birds for universal speakers). In a year we'll dig the thread up and see how many people were right or wrong! Post as many or as few things as you want and don't take the piss saying stuff like "flying cars won't come out".

I'll start off:

Myspace will be closed down or bought by an obscure company and will be never be heard from again
Apple will release a tablet computer which will fail on its arse
We will see a glimpse of one of the next generations of games console Rumours of the nintendo 3DS surfaced yesterday, Natal & Playstation move too
Windows mobile will take a massive market share hit and will be released on very few new phones by december - Considering it's being phased out I'll take a win on that one already :D
Opera desktop browser will increase it's market share - Has already happened according to the last NPR report
Half life 2 episode 3 won't come out

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Originally Posted by Markeh

Almost every PC will come with a touch screen
Android and webOS will start to become key mobile OSs, and by the end of year will be starting to catch up with the iPhone. Android certainly catching up and is likely to overtake iphone, safe one!
Vodafone might actually give its customers free access to Facebook!
An iPhone will be launched in June, with a better camera, and hopefully multi-tasking. A new Nano will be announced in September, in several horrible colours, probably with a 2MP or 3.2MP camera. along with an iPod touch (likely with camera, and 128Gb storage space), and a bigger iPod Classic (250Gb), and a shuffle, which will be higher capacity and smaller (up to 16Gb). Looking likely, they've dropped the price of the 3GS to clear inventory
Quad-core processors will be standard in most £4-500 PCs.
Netbooks will get thinner, faster, better spec'd, cheaper, and will stop using that god awful Windows 7 starter edition
Twitter will see a HUGE increase in usage, Facebook won't, and Myspace and Bebo will be nearly dead.
There will be a HUGE rise of interest in Spotify.
OLED prices will drop significantly.
Nvidia will launch a DX11 chip very late in the year, if not in 2011.
AMD will have a 6-core processor nearly ready to sell
Blu-ray recorders will fall under £200, and players under £50
More and more places will provide free Wi-Fi
The Rickroll will be effectively dead, and will have been replaced with some other mistake (probably Kanye West at the VMAs) Like it :D
Freeview HD.
One 3D channel on Sky, probably on its own little extortionately priced package
There will be a mobile phone readily available for £5. Already is
2Tb will be the norm for HDD storage.

Some safe ones there :)

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Originally Posted by Jordy

Google Voice takes over Skype in the US, and possibly the UK depending on whether it's released over here
Apple's tablet will be surprisingly popular, forcing other manufacturers to begin making them (Dell tablet anyone?) hasn't been released yet but i think that's looking good
Netbooks sales will drop as laptop prices lower and smartphones become more capable Going opposite way from what I can see!
Android over takes iPhone marketshare Likely!
Once again, no significant changes will be made to the iPhone or iPod Touch. Presumably just some minor OS changes and Disk Space increased
Windows Mobile 7 develops considerably interest towards the end of the year Already fulfilled, its the thing atm
Successor to both the Wii & Xbox 360 announced or leaked during the year, although it might be a year or two until somethings actually released
Google Chrome OS fails as there's no real need for it despite it being a great idea
Twitter usage will decline and might be bought by a large firm, eBay, Google, Microsoft, News Corporation, one of them :P
Google Wave will do very well and improve a lot Utter fail by the looks of it!

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Originally Posted by Android

Apple will release it's own line of touchscreen computers. They will charge about £3,000 for this.
iPhone contracts will stay the same.
A new generation of iPhone's will be released Likely with clearing of stock
Many computers will come with 2TB storage
i7 Processors will much more common in Dell computers
Intel Quad-Core will be the norm in new computers
Alienware will release a new touchscreen gaming PC
More online storage Erm... I think? Idk :P
Habbox will have 200 more members offering crap hosting
Google Wave will finish BETA stage
Sky will offer 3D channels
Sky+3D will be released, offering HD and 3D channels
Googles new computer OS will be a hit, but not many computer companys will install the OS onto there computers
All new touchscreen phones will have an APP store I'll give you that, all smartphones certainly do and a fair few dumbphones have at least a way of getting apps onto them
OLED will become a more popular buy. Yeps
Plasma Screen TV's will be the norm in many houses

Apple WON'T start charging there prices in the UK
Sony Vaio laptops WON'T become boring

My little input :)

Some far out ones on there I think!

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Originally Posted by Callum.

Myspace get's sold and the owners cash in on what used to be a good site.
Blackberrys will rule.
Xboxs drop more in price. Yep that's happened
Gears 3 will be fail if it comes out.
Twitter will gradually become less popular.

I'll also +rep for playing.

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Originally Posted by Richie

GPRS will come built into most phones Do you mean GPS? GPRS is in all phones afaik
mybb will become bigger than VBulletin
A massive error will be found in windows 7
Laptops will become illegal due to it leaving 3rd degree burns
Google will take over facebook
Twitter will fail

I think this thread is a good idea soo +rep

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Originally Posted by awelsh

There will be a wireless charger for laptops/ power for pc's The powermat was out last year so that's cheating a bit ;)
There will be a new version of bluetooth on phones to make faster transfers
Apple will allow people to drag and drop files onto ipods without having to use itunes HA fat chance (A)
Bill Gates will die suddenly
Sony Ericsson will get sued for having such unreliable phones

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Originally Posted by BeanEgg

XBox will have a portable version

A new high-end gaming console will be released

Largest LCD screen will come out (Most likely)

Apples products will get much more expensive

A new Apple TV

No hits there atm

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Originally Posted by Recursion

Google Chrome OS will flop big time, consumers don't want private data stored on servers, current 3G network providers don't have the capacity and there will be no applications for it.
YouTube will actually begin dishing out 'proper' 1080p video services Idk how you define proper but they definately have 1080p now!
OnLive on demand gaming services will flop due to latency problems and download limits BETA testing is indicating this won't be true :)
Gran Turismo 5 will FINALLY come out.. maybe?
Android will begin to take sizable chunks out of iPhoneOS' user base You can have that
Apple will release a tablet PC that will fail due to a terribly huge pricetag Half right
Android Eclair 2.0 or 2.1 will come out for the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream) I think it is now
Twitter will expand it's current services, in some ways users will love, in others, users will hate
MySpace will take it's final blow and get off the social networking scene
Sky will start charging for news, lose huge user base
Core i9 will flop due to it's oldest and older brothers, i7 and i5
The UK government will start making the UK's internet services worse in some shape or form Digital economy bill, spot on
The Mini-USB phone charging standard will finally come into play If you mean micro USB then yeah that's around loads now
Office 2010 is released, absolutely pwning iWork, OO.O, or any other office system
SSDs will drop in price significantly

Spotify will become ever more filled with adverts I'm getting 2 at a time pretty regularly so yeah
Apple will lose against Nokia in their law suits Is that still going on?
4G phone networks still wont start rolling out in the UK, let alone a proper 3G network infrastructure, O2 go begging other carriers for network help when the iPhone finally kills them iPhone part of that looking unlikely as its on so many networks now
Touchscreen computing will fail horribly
The BBC news website will still be terrible for Technology related news
Engadget will still bum out Apple to a rediculous extent Yep :D
Project Natal will be delayed Still on track as of now
Broadband will be just as slow for rural areas like where I live

Just about all I can think of right now.

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Originally Posted by Boonzeet

Apple to standardise prices again, reaching downwards to £500 for the cheapest iterations of Macbook.
iPhone to be released in June, 5 megapixel camera, multi-tasking and improved UI, as well as aesthetic changes and slimmer and thinner, possibly with a larger/higher definition screen. As I've said above, looking likely with inventory clearing
Microsoft to lose further market share, Internet Explorer market share to drop under 60% Is it under 605 now? It's bloody close if it isn't
Linux to make a possible foothold in the Netbook line, as well as rumours of Google Chrome OS
Google Phone January 5th Google phone came out, not sure if it was Jan 5th though
Google to further monopolize the technology market. Google ISP anyone?
Google and Apple to possibly invoke huge problems. Google provoking problems with china, apple with their over-reaching patents
Saying 'touchscreen is going to be a standard' is incredibly unrealistic, but Apple's touchscreen device, either the iSlate or the iGuide to be announced possibly January 22nd, as a 10" touchscreen tablet computer capable of running applications in a similar fashion to the iPhone. Spookily spot on
24" Monitors to become a basic standard.
Windows 8 to be announced already.
Possibly a new iteration of Mac OS to be announced, likely with the name 'Lion' or 'Cougar'.
Google to announce world domination. Yep

http://tekcube.net/internet/firefox-...010early-2011/

fairly unlikely

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Originally Posted by HotelUser

- Apple will fail miserably by continuing to be ignorant to consumer demands and prices
- Microsoft will withdraw from it's mobile operating system devision and wont be a contestant until they've built a lightweight version of the full on Windows Looking very unlikely due to WP7
- Google will buy out hardware manufactures to produce their own mobile devices They get HTC to do it so close enough
- Palm will fold Looking likely unfortunately
- Nokia and Motorola will merge
-internet will become a right in america and cellular service in north america will become more reasonable and affordable for the consumer
- we will eventually have small mobile devices with always on data, and we will be able to connect them to external displays and devices just by going near them.
- intel processors will get stupid small

If you want to disagree with what I've said feel free, you can also go back and evaluate your own predictions and post the results :) I haven't commented on predictions where there's no indication if they're going to be right or wrong yet.

Thanks for playing!