Predictions for 2008?
By Ryan Block 
posted January 1st 2008 12:35PM
posted January 1st 2008 12:35PM
See also predictions for 2005, 2006, and 2007.
posted January 1st 2008 12:35PM
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1. Larger, more rugged, less feature-laden mobile phones will become more popular, with larger batteries (and thus increased talk times) instead of gimmicky things like cameras, mp3 players, etc.
2. The industry (mobile carrier) will move ever-so-slightly to more open GSM oriented technology, with pay-as-you-go plans edging in over contracts.
These are predictions you can count on coming true, and next year you will all be eager to hear my 2009 predictions.
So sayeth the Ghost Man.
It's about bloody time ya.
The conventional 'toss and drown' cell's rly suck.
If you just follow the Nokia line, you will see that with each version they keep on removing features.
BILL GATES IS NOT LEAVING MICROSOFT.
AND AS FAR AS TECHNOLOGY GOES I DOUBT ANYTHING EXCITING WILL BE RELEASED IN 2008.
PSP2 adds a hard drive and gets rid of the very poor UMD idea.
The nano gets replaced with a smaller Touch. The iPhone goes 3G.
Console sales steady with PS3 still lagging slightly.
A bunch of cell phones come out that don't quite manage to bump off the iPhone.
The Aptera comes out with its ridiculously great mileage and low price.
The shuffle is redesigned again with a small screen. Basically is the new Nano.
In a lot of words, nothing at all surprising.
New 3G IPhone.
New lineup of Ipods.
Android releases on iphone type platform huge hit.
Google stock reaches $1000.00.
Apple stock reaches $600.00.
Apple releases an open source touch screen phone for under $400 people rejoice.
War breaks out in middle east. Hillary becomes president and the US becomes socialistic. Subsequently she is shot.
I see Apple moving away from the iPod. I see them really expanding on the Touch as the new iPod and really expand its base.
Of course the iPhone 2.0 will come to be, but I don't expect much anticipation compared to the original iPhone release.
I think Apple will pursue a Touch style laptop and an expansion of Leopard with one or two touch apps (read: replace your monitors)...
Although, i think the real sensory OS is the next evolution in their bag of tricks.
After two posts ago, Sony winning the format war.
Apple UMPC or Ultrathin Macbook Pro
Sadness screenshots/release date/proof/ANYTHING??? (HA! because that game actually exists, and isnt some plea for attention by a person/group w/ serious mental issues.)
Stop'n'Drop Suicide Booth is finally released in the USA to great praise. I've been waiting for 2008 to roll around so I can use one of these babies.
I'm glad SOMEONE remembered that!
U.S. GDP soars from 79 percent to 100 percent retail sales.
EVERYTHING, like 2007, is made in China-some re-branded to look like U.S. produced, INCLUDING ALL APPLE PRODUCTS and supposed high-end audio.
Chinese moguls buy entire U.S. retail marketplace-from distribution to e and brick outlets. Arabs ship China freighters of U.S. greenbacks for gadgets.
Only job available in U.S. is at CHI-MART saying hello to rich Chinese and Arab tourists.
Microsoft and Apple collaborate to release a Halo 3 themed iPhone. This unnatural crossover results in an unholy cult of superfanboys that troll mercilessly to the point that Engadget, Digg, and Slashdot finally implode into oblivion and the internet resets itself to 1993.
they are going to clone Abe Lincoln