A) because of other Companies i)Microsoft release windows 7, ii)Android support from SE and Nokia
b) because of Apple i)Apple will block opera, flash and amazon mp3 store apps from app store ii) new imacs/mac minis will to expensive for current economic climate, and people won't want the same mac as last year only made out of one piece of metal iii) Apple will continue to charge for updates, that is if they ever do add copy/paste or flash support
1) Chrome gets plugin support and starts to eat into opera and firefox marketshare. 2) IE keeps market share due to fact that only people currently using it. don't see IE as a program but simply as "The Internet"
I further predict that Windows 7 will very good stability. Where as Snow Leopard will lack stability.
I back up this prediction that if Windows 7 were released today, stable. Snow Leopard still has many bugs due to the fact #1 Leopard was far from perfect and #2 Snow Leopard was much to ambitious rewrite into 64 bit without trying to understand the root causes of instability in Leopard. (Networking in particular) Windows 7 was reexamining of what consumers wanted out of Vista and what caused people to have issues. In addition I think Vista was the big change Snow Leopard will be. Losing backward compatibility or trying to emulate it. Vista was necessary evil, like UAC which forced software developer to code responsibility.
@Steve: I don't know about the prediction for IE. I think it's going to decrease because Google is already pushing for Chrome to be installed on computers you buy at Best Buy right alongside Google Desktop (have you seen a PC lately that DIDN'T have Google Desktop!? It's crazy!) They pushed Chrome out of BETA a million times faster than any of their normal products (like you said, Gmail lol). And, people want to try out Google stuff just because it's Google.
@LJKelley: Seriously, you know what you're talking about ;-). I seriously wonder if Snow Leopard (which is the equivalent jump Apple is taking that Microsoft made with Vista) could withstand the heat of all the "new" stuff consumers hate if it wasn't for the economic downturn and Apple's high prices. I mean, we're all so eager to check out their new stuff, and they sure know how to make it appealing...
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i think 2009 will be bad for Apple...
A) because of other Companies
i)Microsoft release windows 7,
ii)Android support from SE and Nokia
b) because of Apple
i)Apple will block opera, flash and amazon mp3 store apps from app store
ii) new imacs/mac minis will to expensive for current economic climate, and people won't want the same mac as last year only made out of one piece of metal
iii) Apple will continue to charge for updates, that is if they ever do add copy/paste or flash support
Other predictions, albeit a little more unlikely:
GMail goes out of beta
Duke Nukem forever is released
iEye or Clak hit puberty
gmail out of beta? thats hoping for alot.
1) Chrome gets plugin support and starts to eat into opera and firefox marketshare.
2) IE keeps market share due to fact that only people currently using it. don't see IE as a program but simply as "The Internet"
I further predict that Windows 7 will very good stability. Where as Snow Leopard will lack stability.
I back up this prediction that if Windows 7 were released today, stable. Snow Leopard still has many bugs due to the fact #1 Leopard was far from perfect and #2 Snow Leopard was much to ambitious rewrite into 64 bit without trying to understand the root causes of instability in Leopard. (Networking in particular) Windows 7 was reexamining of what consumers wanted out of Vista and what caused people to have issues. In addition I think Vista was the big change Snow Leopard will be. Losing backward compatibility or trying to emulate it. Vista was necessary evil, like UAC which forced software developer to code responsibility.
@Steve:
I don't know about the prediction for IE. I think it's going to decrease because Google is already pushing for Chrome to be installed on computers you buy at Best Buy right alongside Google Desktop (have you seen a PC lately that DIDN'T have Google Desktop!? It's crazy!) They pushed Chrome out of BETA a million times faster than any of their normal products (like you said, Gmail lol). And, people want to try out Google stuff just because it's Google.
@LJKelley:
Seriously, you know what you're talking about ;-). I seriously wonder if Snow Leopard (which is the equivalent jump Apple is taking that Microsoft made with Vista) could withstand the heat of all the "new" stuff consumers hate if it wasn't for the economic downturn and Apple's high prices. I mean, we're all so eager to check out their new stuff, and they sure know how to make it appealing...
League one, you're still in league one, you're still in league one, you're still in league one.
@Jamma
Seriously, who is this Clak guy? I know iEye, but this Clak dude I've never even seen him, but people always talk about him.
@jamma: I really do wish that DN:forever finaly release's this year. 3 different trailers with 3 different graphics engines.