Predictions for 2010?
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted January 1st 2010 8:30PM
posted January 1st 2010 8:30PM
Chris: In an unprecedented cash and stock deal valued at over $1.7 billion, Comcast acquires your '89 Festiva.
Thomas: Steve Jobs will announce a pair of tablets, then smash them to bits on account of Android idolatry.
Laura: Jeff Bezos will continue to predict the "death of the book." The book will continue to exist merely to spite Bezos.
Don: The world breathes a sigh of relief that the Large Hadron Collider will never create a black hole... after it is destroyed by zombies.
Dan: Apple's stock will plummet when a TUAW investigative report reveals that Steve Jobs actually died in 2002, and has since been portrayed by talk show host cum surreal performance artist, Arsenio Hall.
Nilay: Google finally flips the switch and creates Skynet.
Joanna: The OLPC XO-3 gets an early release date - in the form of the Apple Tablet. Ends world hunger, illiteracy and violence. Saves the world.
Ben: Microsoft agrees that CableCARD is a failure and Media Center along with it and introduces Zune Center.
Josh F: Adult entertainment will kick-start yet another media market, this time in the form of 3D Blu-ray porn.
Richard Lai: Tamagotchi resurrects with 3D monochrome screen, and then dies.
Darren: Intel considers making an Atom that's actually fast, but its bottom line delays the launch until December 31, 2012.
Vlad: Sony Ericsson delivers an Xperia handset on time... nah, just kidding.
Richard Lawler: Nintendo surprises everyone and releases the Wii 3D.
Josh T: Google upends the landscape of the mobile phone market when Eric Schmidt says Apple can "have one of these unsubsidized" while emphatically pointing to his crotch.
Cheap SSDs
@kris120890 We wish.
Now that they have saturated Sata 3.0, can we focus on price?
@kris120890 Josh T: Google upends the landscape of the mobile phone market when Eric Schmidt says Apple can "have one of these unsubsidized" while emphatically pointing to his crotch.
OMG this is the reason why I keep reading engadget. To hear this witty-horny remarks of Josh!
and the geek yuks it up! :D
@kris120890
By Samsung or maybe INtel. My money is on Samsung.
@kris120890
PS2 Will cost $59.99
PS3 Will end up costing $199.99...gets re-released in late 2010 with a NEW slimmer model(yes...even more slim...) and a motion controller...gets called the "PS3IM (PS3 In Motion)" and ends up costing $399.99
Wii will end up costing $149.99...nothing new for 2010...
Xbox 360 Discontinues old models...comes out with "Xbox Free60", which was codenamed "Project Natal" in 2009. This new console is slightly slimmer...and needs no controller...even tho it comes with one in case of emergency situations...costs $299.99
Windows Decides to release "WINDOWS XP 2".in July 2010. They do this to decide its the only way to get users to use a different OS than Windows XP...which is almost 10 yrs old...People then realize that Windows XP2 is just a redesigned Windows 7...
Sony Releases the "PSP 2". Slightly slimmer than the PSP Go...and requires an AT&T or VERIZON plan to download games...and you get billed monthly...Also features a touchscreen..and TWO JOYSTICKS YES...
Apple Releases the iPod Nano 6G...which is slimmer and features an OLED screen and a polished chrome finished...amazing to the eye...with a camera that isn't in a bad place..also the whole front is a touchscreen...but no apps.....All iPod Nano 5G owners will sob.
Apple also releases the new iPod Classic with a camera for pictures only...and a 300GB HDD.
Then comes the iPod Shuffle...which is the headphones itself...and u need to say "Pause" or yell "play"and "next!" for the device to work.
Then comes the iPod Touch...which is slimmer and looks like the nano but bigger...ppl will buy it..obv...
The iPhone 3Gs2 will sell like crazy...and yepp..
At the end of 2010...microsoft, sony, AND nintendo announce their new consoles are coming out in mid 2014...Then 2014 comes and they find out all companies have joined forces to make a new gaming system...which requires thought only...
Dr. Dre releases his long awaited "Detox" album in 2Q 2010...and with all the money he makes from that...he then strikes deals with many companies to use the "Beats by Dr. Dre" on Cars, more computers, more headphones, cellphones, heaters, soap, and more.
yay
@kris120890
How about laptops that have no hard drive at all...just a bay for one. Then each user of that computer could just maintain their own SDD. There could be a smaller separate SDD that contained the OS and the drivers for the configuration.
Microsoft delays Windows Mobile 7, yet again!
Gran Turismo 5 will be delayed until 2011.
And perhaps, computers will be able to run Crysis.
@zackn87
woah dude, what are you smoking?
@DaveBach
thats quite smart if it works like that... can you have a small 8-10gb flash (even ssd) that only has the os, then a ssd with your apps/files that you can just transfer over to a new computer?
no Paul Miller? :/
@zackn87 \
No Apple will not release the Nano 6G, that would be too expensive to for APPLE to make a profit on. THat price would at least around 300 dollars based on Apple's pricing structure.
haahaahah
@fishtar thats very true Google is Skynet of the Internet
@fishtar
Suddenly...Sega comes out of nowhere! And they release The DreamCatcher...a "sequel" to the Dreamcast..and this console costs $169.99 and ends up dominating the Industry...then they kick Sony out of business...so the 3 companies will be
Sega (Second Reign!)
Microsoft
Nintendo
sorry sony...
@fishtar you never know, last year Chris was[almost] right about Motorola. "A3000 fever sweeps the globe, leaving Motorola with a commanding 37 percent market share."
@liftedngifted1
Yeah, I instinctively went to up rank him as soon as I read Nilay's comment. LOL
@zackn87 yay sega!!!! but eff that i want sega AND sony ... get rid of nintendo
@fishtar You're right. These 'predictions' weren't funny at all.
@zackn87
your 'sorry sony' comment gave me an idea:
http://i47.tinypic.com/11m54x4.jpg
I knew steve jobs was secretly arsenio hall
@liftedngifted1 What they forgot was that the TUAW "investigative report" was reported by Engadget, Gizmodo, and Phandroid like 2 weeks earlier.
@liftedngifted1
In my mind, that would make their stock go up. It would prove that apple can actually survive without Steve, which I don't really see happening. But if he's been dead that long, then investors really have nothing to worry about, imo.
wheres la bamba when you need him?
@Captain Underpants and the Bring
He became extinct IN THE YEAR 2000
@gadgetfanboy no no no... he does the year 3000 now... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmk9CjEha8A
nexus one released, and so begins the invasion of android.
@Paul B Chapel also, sorry for the second post, but is that picture from 2001: a space odyssey?
@Paul B Chapel
No, its from "2010"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/
@tyjb9x ah, thanks.
@Paul B Chapel
i think a bigger reason to fear 2010 is the reincarnation of Paul A Chapel
:)
@Paul B Chapel what's so special about the Nexus One?
@glenskey what?
@Paul C Chapel
And so, the Clone Wars has begun it seems.
one world government?
@garrenteed Already happened around 1945.
Apple will counter Microsoft's latest ad campaign with yet another "i'm a Mac" commercial.
@Rinum009
The I'm a Mac ad will actually be an I'm a PC ad photoshopped due to Microsoft's Polish ad team needing work.
@Rinum009
Windows Explorer (Not Responding) when simply accessing a non-existent network resource (either by misspelling or any power off, or any other billion common reasons this happens) will go away or be handled gracefully because some dumb kid said they wished for it in Windows 8 and 'she did that'. Never mind that the rest of us wished it away for the last 25 years.
Josh's prediction is perfect.
@collindow Which Josh?
@Cam the porn one, of course
Can't compare 2010 to 2001. I saw that 2010 was on cable today and it didn't get it, like it's 2010 already.
@miles4000 It didn't get it back in 1984 either. At least we're not all using Apple IIc(s). Ugh.
3D porn...Whoa
@nachotech
No thanks. Some things definitely shouldn't be jumping out of the screen at you.
@Cameron Like gonorrhea.
@(Unverified)
...or a giant schlong.
@daytripper
OMG! Can't Wait! xD
@daytripper
...aaand there goes the subtlety.