2010 Technology Predictions [+rep for playing!]

[Richie]

• GPRS will come built into most phones
• 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

[The Professor]

You can't have GPRS will come built into phones, it already is You can have GPS will be built into all phones though

[awelsh]

• There will be a wireless charger for laptops/ power for pc's
• 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
• Bill Gates will die suddenly
• Sony Ericsson will get sued for having such unreliable phones

[Richie]

• Bill Gates will die suddenly

haha lets hope bill doesn't see this thread


Rapidshare will get sued for hosting illegal downloads

Warez will get sued too ; )

[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

[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
• OnLive on demand gaming services will flop due to latency problems and download limits
• Gran Turismo 5 will FINALLY come out.. maybe?
• Android will begin to take sizable chunks out of iPhoneOS' user base
• Apple will release a tablet PC that will fail due to a terribly huge pricetag
• Android Eclair 2.0 or 2.1 will come out for the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream)
• 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
• The Mini-USB phone charging standard will finally come into play
• 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
• Apple will lose against Nokia in their law suits
• 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
• 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
• Project Natal will be delayed
• Broadband will be just as slow for rural areas like where I live

Just about all I can think of right now.

[Homosexual]

Firefox 4 will be released.

x

[Chippiewill]

- We will discover everything that happens within the next week, praise CES.

• 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.
• Microsoft to lose further market share, Internet Explorer market share to drop under 60%
• Linux to make a possible foothold in the Netbook line, as well as rumours of Google Chrome OS
• Google Phone January 5th
• Google to further monopolize the technology market.
• Google and Apple to possibly invoke huge problems.
• 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.
• 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.

Firefox 4 will be released.

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

fairly unlikely

[Recursion]

[QUOTE=Boonzeet;6213531]

• Possibly a new iteration of Mac OS to be announced, likely with the name 'Lion' or 'Cougar'.

They already trademakred Cougar and Lynx as OS X names when they trademarked Tiger, they only just announced 10.6 (we're currently on 10.6.2, Tiger went up to 10.4.11), it'll be a good while before 10.7