2007 predictions, part two
There will be no iPhone release. If there is, the name will be much lamer than iPhone and it will never achieve the popularity of iPod. TRUE.
iTV will fail. Miserably. iPod succeeds because it satisfies a cultural, commodity niche. You cannot carry a TV around. TVs do not make people cool. Nobody has made a better TV in decades; we have only merely changed what produces the picture over and over again. TRUE.
Mac OS X will languish as Apple runs out of 10.* releases. Lack of planning for the next version of Mac OS (11) will cause Apple to exit the limelight. TRUE.
This, with Vista, will leave a power vacuum in the OS market, one that is not filled by Linux, which will lack an OS to copy from which to copy any more features. TRUE.
Web 2.0 will stagnate. Language interpreters will become a bottleneck. (Ruby 2.0 will not be released until Christmas 2007, anyway.) TRUE.
Perl 6.0 will not be released. Python 3000 will not be released. Haskell will continue to kick ass in Pugs, and nobody will notice. TRUE.
dotfloofy dotblog will reach its fourth anniversary. This is called “juxtaposition.” TRUE-ish.