Buzz Out Loud Lounge: 2009 Predictions
Well...
by Nicholas Buenk - 12/30/08 2:49 AM In reply to: Wishes! by mchargeiPhone is gonna get to 32GB sometime, moore's law. Just a question of when.
Telstra already doesn't support the net filter, refused to join the trial program. And it's probably not going to be passes by the senate anyway, lacks support from the greens and liberal party.
Windows 7. Finally a major update to the tadkbar. I think it will be received well.
Windows 7
by toosday - 12/30/08 11:27 AM In reply to: Well... by Nicholas BuenkI think Windows 7 will be received well if Microsoft takes the PR into their own hands and stop letting a competitor define them (which Microsoft is slowly starting to do). Windows Vista kind of failed not just because it was bad, but because Microsoft never told their basic home users that it was good.
My thoughts anyhow 
its just a spec bump
by minimalist - 1/2/09 6:13 PM In reply to: Wishes! by mchargeIt's not as if the the whole company will throw their hands up in the air in the air and say "well what do we do now"? :-P
I mean they've been doing these things once or twice a year for a decade or so. I think its safe to say Apple has the routine down by now: keep price the same, bump the specs. This isn't rocket science.
2009 Predictions
by wizkids32 - 12/11/08 3:01 PM In reply to: 2009 Predictions by robstakiTunes will get rid of DRM by June.
Poor Jason...
by OskarSigvardsson - 12/11/08 9:10 PM In reply to: 2009 Predictions by robstakRemember one of Jason's predictions was that HD-DVD would come out as the winner of the format war, and then three weeks later he was proven wrong? Poor guy, Molly's gonna mock him mercilessly!
High Risk but High Reward Prediction #1: Google buys NYTimes
by Francis_Burdett - 12/12/08 12:34 PM In reply to: 2009 Predictions by robstakEven I don't think it will actually happen, but if it did happen in 2009, I'd be a financial seer for the ages (or more correctly, the guy who actually mentioned this on his blog would be a seer for the ages)
http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2008/12/could_the_stars_be_aligning_fo.php
"As the New York Times Co. is negotiating with lenders over its debt, speculation has been floating around the blogosphere, pushing the premise that Google Inc. should acquire the beleaguered Gray Lady. The thesis (or, rumor, as some would put it) has been around since the beginning of the year, with SpliceToday on Thursday reintroducing the idea of the unorthodox union of the stalwart of old media with the scion of new media."
This takeover makes little direct sense on an operating basis but on a _cultural_ and political basis Brin and Page might be compelled to "save" the Times from Rupert Murdoch.
Save it from Murdoch?
by Slikkster - 12/12/08 3:27 PM In reply to: High Risk but High Reward Prediction #1: Google buys NYTimes by Francis_BurdettNot sure what that's supposed to mean. I get the WSJ every day, and it's got some great articles on all kinds of subjects. Sure, there's the editorial page, but that's where the politics end. Is Murdoch responsible for the WSJ layout? No, but he didn't mess with it, either.
As for Google buying the Times, I'd say that makes very little sense. What does Google know about news reporting, other than to aggregate others' work? Newspapers are going under all the time. It can't all be blamed on the economic downturn, either. There's too much free info on the net. The companies need a better business model. Unfortunately, it's probably too late.
"save" in quotation marks
by Francis_Burdett - 12/12/08 8:22 PM In reply to: Save it from Murdoch? by SlikksterI am agnostic as to whether Murdoch or the Sulzbergers would make a better steward for the Times.
However there is a large segment of the Times readership (to say nothing of its editors and reporters) that would as soon jump in the Hudson as to have the Times pass to Murdoch.
Thats why I said "save"
But I totally agree that buying the Times or _any_ newspaper at this point is fool hardy from an economic stand point.
But the Times might not be looked at in a purely financial light.
It's Ironic...
by Slikkster - 12/13/08 3:15 AM In reply to: "save" in quotation marks by Francis_BurdettIt's only my opinion, of course, but I think the Times has far more political bias creeping into the "news" pages than the WSJ. That's unfortunate, as it IS the "paper of record", and has some tremendous talent. Geez, all I want is the news, as unfiltered as humanly possible. I don't need the Sulzberger's POV, or Murdoch's, for that matter. Now, that said, this isn't to say none of Murdoch's papers don't push a bias! The NY Post is all right-wing stuff, save for a very good sports section. But the more you get to know about Murdoch, the more you see that he's not so much a political animal, but a capitalistic animal. He knows where the niches are. Plus, he's now big on the "Green" movement, and actually had a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's last Senate run, for crying out loud. This, while the Post thinks nothing of bashing her all day, lol.
But anyway, all of this digresses from the predictions thread, so I'll leave it there.
Some of my predictions
by mementh - 12/12/08 10:38 PM In reply to: 2009 Predictions by robstakJonathan Coulton and Amanda French make a duet album for online and has a good chance of getting a greedy publisher to make them a offer but they refuse and sell there music online and make more then they could at the publisher.
Starcraft 2 and Diablo III (two seperate predictions here) underwhelm due to so much publicity and to little public hands on (or the wrong focus groups)
Runescape gets into next years GOOGLE Zitegiest (bad spelling will continue for Mementh)
AlaCart Pricing will not come to cable TV's but Package pricing will either be released or announced (cable employee here @ comcast but nothing inside knowlage tells me anything yet this is just what I hope)
Tivo comes out on Comcast!!!! Either as a new box type to rent from Comcast or as a upgradeable option that can be rented seperatly.
(saw a photo from one of the test areas of a remote for a Comcast Tivo remote)
Gas goes under $1.00 and the economy either stabalizes or starts to get better.
more later.
Sounds pretty good to me
by DaveBinM - 12/13/08 5:00 AM In reply to: Some of my predictions by mementhI'd love to see most of that come true!
Not possible
by Nicholas Buenk - 12/13/08 7:24 PM In reply to: Some of my predictions by mementhThe moment the economy gets better the gas price will shoot back up. Especially with like lack of investment in production due to the price plummet and difficulties in getting loans, these threaten oil production increases to fall below the rate of production decline in established sites! Falling production on a growing economy, would mean back to over $4.
Oh, I understand, but...
by DaveBinM - 12/14/08 5:34 AM In reply to: Not possible by Nicholas BuenkI did say I'd like for them to come true, not that they would.
if gas goes back up
by mementh - 12/14/08 1:15 PM In reply to: Not possible by Nicholas Buenkif gas goes back up then people will start spending less again..
literally it can't imho.. the REAL market for CONSUMERS was kiled byt the gas price imho (stupid person here)
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
by skimike4 - 12/15/08 7:04 AM In reply to: 2009 Predictions by robstakI love a good prediction show, I really do.
Last year I predicted:
- Vista will DIE. Windows will yank it off the shelves completely.
(not quite, but Windows 7 is coming soon)
- Live TV online
(Not really. NBC streaming weird angles of football games doesn't do it for me.)
- Beatles on iTunes
(i know nobody cares, but this still befuddles me)
- The SDK for the iPhone will launch iPhone sales into the stratosphere. Soon, even Molly Wood will drool over an Apple product. Well, that might be asking a lot.
(Called it. Molly got an iPhone. Nothing like a good App Store to hook 'em.)
- And you heard it here first, Veronica will return to BOL at least part time.
(Well, I have 16 days left....)
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