If one puts two and two together, they will get four. We live in amazing times, where two plus two is starting to equal five, which, I actually love, since that little extra one is not going to hurt. No, not one bit. If I may opine...
First, we have seen two main platforms, plus one, rising to prominence: Apple, Android and now Windows Phone 7. The first is programed in Objective C, restricted to using only MACS for development. The second in JAVA with its SDK from Google, with packages available for Linux, MAC OS, and Windows, and the last of course, Windows Phone 7, which can use the free tools available from MSDN, using Visual Studio Express etc...
Apple has set the bar for how a mobile device can create a definitive end user experience, that can envelop all aspects of the users life. However, it is my belief that Apple knows that the IPHONE is reaching the end of its product cycle. Apple may not be thinking about having the MAC of Phones here, although in many ways, it can be considered that this is what has happened, and wherever demand lies, they can always fill that demand, but there is only so much that can be done with the current IPHONE product. HTC has been bringing forward innovations, and to my surprise, Microsoft may have created what appears to be the next level for phones in respects to their current platform. The combination between HTC and Windows Phone 7 is bringing about what I believe the next level in mobile phone technologies, specifically focusing in on the cloud. The Android platform is also in an excellent position, a place that should have Apple worried, or else why should they not worry? I would like to posit my theory on why Apple does not need to be concerned.
Apple loves IPAD. Apple knows that even staunch Windows users are using their IPAD. While users of Linux may still want to go to an Android Pad, there are linux aficionados buying their IPAD. Apple hit the mark with the IPAD, which begs the question, will it move this product to the next level? I believe yes. So... here is my prediction for 2011:
Apple will come out with a 5 gen IPHONE.
Apple will come out with a 2 gen IPAD that will be a merging between a portable MAC BOOK and IPAD, which may not even be called IPAD. It will be a fully functioning laptop computer.
Apple's fifth gen IPHONE, in hardware design, will be the last generation for the phone.
IPAD or whatever it will become, will be a menace to companies like HP, Samsung, Dell, Archos, Nokia, and others that have ideas or intentions to build tablet computers.
IPAD will become a menace to Microsoft and Sony in gaming consoles, since the IPAD development will also center on gaming and pushing the limits of whatever processor will be in the IPAD.
* (this one is a bit iffy, but I m throwing it in anyway) Apple will secure the control of media devices, creating an IPAD that will supplant tv top web interfacing devices like the Roku Box, Boxee and merge the technologies in Apple tv seamlessly with their IPAD or IPAD like device.
It will have a sharper display, and higher resolution HD, if possible.
The laptops and net-books, especially INTEL'S Atom processor, that I touted almost two years ago as becoming mainstays, will start to see reduction in sales, since the new device will be a phenomenon.
I am predicting these things as they befit the natural order. I am sure there are others out there that may think the same as I, but I have no insider information. I only see these things coming to pass, and if I am wrong so be it. I am placing bets that all of my predictions come to be, if not some of them, either which way...
so says mrgnuopensourceman... let's see if this is another successful prediction...
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Facebook: Our profiles, our money!
What is the deal with Facebook? Why all of the sudden do we have one privacy issue after another, being caused, by none other than Facebook? Has the real secret to Facebook monetization all along been the possible cloak and dagger sale of our personal information?
Don't get me wrong.. I like the idea of being recommended other sites and companies that could possibly be a service to me, but when it is offered to me, not when it is placed as a default, automatically done, in the middle of the night, with little or no fanfare. There are people that stay away for months from Facebook, Mr.Mark Zuckerberg. Not everyone is into bloody Farmville or Mafia Wars (I do have the account for Mafia Wars, but rarely played, but love Zinga's Poker). Not everyone is totally suckered into spending hours on Facebook, losing productivity, since they are living through others, instead of themselves.
If I post so much into Facebook, its because I have tools, that send my postings from twitter and my blogspot there, but it does not mean I am always paying attention to my Facebook. Mr. Zuckerberg, you can say all you want that we are being informed, but even if the accounts that are being closed or deleted are a fraction of those joining, is it not the smoke that is coming from the proverbial fire? Is it not possible to make these changes, not by default, but that it has to be physically implemented? Or is there another reason why these changes actually happen?
I cannot blame Facebook, there have been calls from investors about monetizing Facebook. However a word of warning to Mr.Zuckerberg, a small crack under constant stress can grow so big that you end up falling in it. Please consider what we say, as Facebook users, and not use methods, that may be misconstrued by users as deceptive, to force an issue, rather than present it in a straight forward manner. Inform us of the changes, but don't make us have to opt out, allow us to choose. I am sure that you will find it more profitable this way, and maintain or advance the credibility of a service that many, including like myself, still believe in, that of an extended web family, and a staple communication tool. That is what Facebook has the possibility of becoming, but only if you maintain that trust with your customers.
Thank You!
Sincerly,
thegreatspace
Don't get me wrong.. I like the idea of being recommended other sites and companies that could possibly be a service to me, but when it is offered to me, not when it is placed as a default, automatically done, in the middle of the night, with little or no fanfare. There are people that stay away for months from Facebook, Mr.Mark Zuckerberg. Not everyone is into bloody Farmville or Mafia Wars (I do have the account for Mafia Wars, but rarely played, but love Zinga's Poker). Not everyone is totally suckered into spending hours on Facebook, losing productivity, since they are living through others, instead of themselves.
If I post so much into Facebook, its because I have tools, that send my postings from twitter and my blogspot there, but it does not mean I am always paying attention to my Facebook. Mr. Zuckerberg, you can say all you want that we are being informed, but even if the accounts that are being closed or deleted are a fraction of those joining, is it not the smoke that is coming from the proverbial fire? Is it not possible to make these changes, not by default, but that it has to be physically implemented? Or is there another reason why these changes actually happen?
I cannot blame Facebook, there have been calls from investors about monetizing Facebook. However a word of warning to Mr.Zuckerberg, a small crack under constant stress can grow so big that you end up falling in it. Please consider what we say, as Facebook users, and not use methods, that may be misconstrued by users as deceptive, to force an issue, rather than present it in a straight forward manner. Inform us of the changes, but don't make us have to opt out, allow us to choose. I am sure that you will find it more profitable this way, and maintain or advance the credibility of a service that many, including like myself, still believe in, that of an extended web family, and a staple communication tool. That is what Facebook has the possibility of becoming, but only if you maintain that trust with your customers.
Thank You!
Sincerly,
thegreatspace
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