Episode 883

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The JaMoTo Analysts throw down a healthy serving of tech predictions for the new year. Are you ready to rumble?

Contents 1 Tom Merritt 2 Molly Wood 3 Jason Howell 4 Notes 5 See also

[edit] Tom Merritt

• One mass media company will push out an Internet-only or Internet-primary hit (webisode).
• GPS will slowly disappear (except in-dash, Standalone GPS merge into phones).
• Some sort of big, public security breach that will cause the change of fundamental internet protocol.
• Android will outsell iPhone.
• Yahoo will finally be purchased in 2009.
• A mind control game peripheral will come out.
• Twitter will get as big as facebook.
• Google will buy a fried chicken franchise.
• Bandwidth riots.
• DTV transition will go off without a hitch. (Mostly be fine)
• A real look of the next-gen console. (Prototype of next-gen console)

[edit] Molly Wood

• There would be no copy and paste for the iPhone in 2009.
• Molly will buy an Android phone by the end of the year. (Molly breaking up with the iPhone)
• Steve Jobs will leave Apple in 2009. (Leave his current role, like Bill Gates)
• The usefulness and price of netbooks will be severely compromised by features. (get more expensive and bigger)
• Yahoo files for bankruptcy after failing or refusing to do a deal that could save them in 2009 only.
• A major newspaper (‘’’LA Times’’’, NY Times, i.e. National newspaper) will go online.
• Google will buy Twitter or Twitter dies.
• Significant number of Americans will dump cable for internet-only television. Cable company have to change pricing model.
• Symantec web will enable subscribing to any podcast in certain topic based on tagging.
• Alien life will be discovered on Venus.

[edit] Jason Howell

• Copy and paste will exist in the iPhone for 2009.
• A major Mac exploit (wide-spread virus etc.).
• Netbook sale will double in 2009.
• LHC will not go online in 2009. (i.e. the world will not end)
• iTunes will get an eBook section. Bonus: iPhone will get an eBook reader firmware upgrade.
• Microsoft will attempt to buy a cellphone company in order to tie in with windows mobile.
• Blu-ray will gain market share over DVD.
• Fancy Android phone with solar panel will be announced.
• A cloud services will be proven to have taken a considerable chunk out of software sales. (beginning of the end of software that we know it as.)
• iTunes will go DRM-free.

[edit] Notes

• Molly and Jason bet a two dollar bill on the copy and paste iPhone crisis.
• Tom said that Molly is from Venus.

[edit] See also

• Predictions
• Listener 2009 predictions