2010 Predictions Follow-Up

Bad fish now like going down the pond chasing bluegills and Tommy CODs. This shark swally a hole, little shaken, little tenderizing and down you go. Okay, so wow, I I yeah, I think we'll figure that out in a minute. Of course. You know, if you know the source of Jonathan's quotes, please let us know some of you of them. Yeah, some of you have been very good about that. We got one email that that listed I think thirty nine of the quotes. How much Jonathan loves Tron. Yes, but

by the way, that movie I just quoted from not Tron. Alright, Uh, this is our this is our annual. Hey, let's see how well we did last year podcast where we we talked about the predictions we made the year before and uh. And first of all, we should mention that we're recording this podcast at the very beginning of December of two thousand ten, and this is about the predictions we made

for two thousand ten. Now, the reason why I say that is because some of these wrong answers may still turn right before January, so don't write us in if something happened on December thirty one. Some of them were very clearly wrong, and mine is the most embarrassing. Now I'm looking at the list here, Polette, the list oh predictions that the two of us made together. Yeah, this was the second time we tried this. We tried this at the the end of two thousand eight for two

thousand nine. Yeah, and uh, I remember being much more into it and excited about making predictions because I didn't realize how wrong I was going to be. And so Jonathan made a ton more predictions for two thousand ten than I did because I didn't want to go out on the limb, so I was really conservative. Yeah. Also, if you remember how I graded them last year, yeah, yeah, that's the last time I'm giving you the marker. I guess I won't be doing that this year, all right,

So we're gonna start this up. Because I made a few more predictions than Mr Pillette, We've decided that Mr Pellette will read out some of mine and then we will comment upon them, and then occasionally I will read out some of his, and then we'll make our way through there, and then we're gonna wrap up by talking about some of the big stories that neither of us predicted. Yes, because we thought that would be fun. Okay, cool, all right,

let's get started. So you said, yes, that would be the year of the e reader, you know, the devices dedicated to books, like the Nook or the Kindle. Uh saying that you know, well, you were about to head out to see SUH the the show formerly known specifically as the Consumer Electronic Show. Every everyone assumes now that it's just ce S. I guess. But you said you'd see a lot of those when you went out in

January to Las Vegas, and you did. Some of them have disappeared since then, never actually hit the marketing, some of them never really got a good chance. Yeah, I said that that Twain ten would be the year the e reader, and you disagreed. You said that it would take another year. Well, I was going by you know, the analyst Gartner said that the e reader wasn't yet ready for the masses. I think the Kindle sales prove

that wrong. However, I'm gonna I'm gonna call this one a tie for us because one, it really is not in the United States at any rate. It's still pretty much a two horse race, right, And and the first horse is the Kindle, and it's way the heck ahead of the second horse, which is the Nook. And still have other readers, but those are the two main ones. And that's if you're going strictly by devices dedicated to readers, right, because the iPad has become a real contender in the

e reader space. But the iPad, of course is not just an e reader, so that you know. But I would say that the iPad still has not um It hasn't made e readers obsolete. No, some people said that it would because it can do so much more. But it turns out that some people just like the e

reader form factor specifically for reading books. Plus the prices come down, and there was another factor by a very famous woman who came out in favor of e readers, who probably tilted the market a little bit more than it might not have benefit had been allowed to sit with a lot of anonymous people reading books. Are you talking about Wait wait wait wait, are you talking about Nicole Kimman? Wait wait wait wait? Are you talking about

um Red Fraggle? Yes? Not Oprah. As a matter of fact, I was talking about the lady who has the network starting January one. In January, Sorry, I can remember. I think eleven, isn't it? I don't know. You want to go back on that. Yes, it was indeed Oprah I was speaking of with the the new network on Discovery. Yeah, and uh yeah, Oprah. Really the kindle became one of her favorite things, right, Yeah, and of course she she has a bully pulpit in her show, so we're so.

You know, as soon as she mentioned that, a lot of people who may not necessarily have been interested, you know, checked it out and discovered they liked it. Yeah. Actually, that was one of those devices that that quickly got outside that niche market of the you know, the the early adopter tech guys gals, and hit a broader audience pretty quickly and and they still have been doing pretty well. I'm still calling it a tie. I still don't think

was really technically the year of the e reader. I think the iPad managed to two deflect that quite a bit. So um, but it certainly did hit public mass consciousness. Yes, readers did really well, and they continued to do well during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales as well. Okay, so let's go. I guess to another one of mine. Oh yeah, and one of your on the iPad, the iPod Touch camera. Hey look at that ding? Yeah, I

got one right? Um, that was it was almost I think I said last year that that one was pretty much gimme. Uh. And even though Apple had not said anything to that effect, I could not imagine another year going by of iPod updates and not seeing a camera in the new iPod Touch and uh. And of course they've They've added the capability of being able to join face time using iPod Touch over WiFi, just like if people who use the iPhone. So I got one, right, you got one right? More. I think this would be

a good time for my first one. All right, So Apple release something likely. I love that you said something talk about hedging your bets. I told you I was being really conservative because it could have released like doves and it would have been right. They released a plague of locusts in the in the Google headquarters and it would have okay. Anyway, so Pletts says Apple will release something,

you know, the master prognosticator here. But then he went on to say it would likely be a tablet and it would sell well, but not as well as all the hype leading up to the tablet would have indicated. In other words, if you remember lots of hype, right, well, yeah, if you remember this time, well, this time, I don't know when you're listening to this, If you remember the winter of two thousand and nine, that was really when people were speculating about this tablet device more than ever before,

and that that speculation had started years earlier. I mean we're talking like, I think it had been like two years since people had started talking about an Apple tablet and uh and so yeah, everyone was was really convinced that Apple is going to come out with this. Um. I should also say that I made a similar prediction, except I said that Apple would come out with a tablet and that it would tank. I think we both technically got this a little wrong. I got it. I

got it way wrong. I was completely wrong. I mean, apart from the fact that they came out with a tablet, that part was right. Did you all hear that it wasn't just me? I know, yes, Okay, Once in a while I say things that don't turn out to be true because, like John teethor I traveled back from an alternate future where the iPad flocked. That's my defense. I clearly it's three degrees of difference from my reality. I hope you I hope you guys listened to the j

T podcast anyway. So, yeah, I said it was gonna flop. I was totally wrong. Chris said it was gonna sell well, but not as well as people thought. Actually ended up selling. I think it's sell better hot cakes. Yeah it was. It flew off store shelves well. Keeping in mind that the previous tablets, the Windows based tablets, which were essentially laptop computers that the screen flipped around. Yeah, uh, they

didn't really do so well. So I kind of figured, you know, well, they they'll probably do well, but nobody really wants to tablet as much as they say we do. Once it turns out Chris and I totally underestimated how Apple can convince us to buy stuff. In fact, I will go so far as to say fifty of the people in this room have an iPad right now. Of the people in this room at the moment caved within

a week of the release, and it's still upset. Actually, I should I should amend that people in this recording area of this room, because we have our producer out there and I don't. Hey, Matt, do you have an iPad? Matt does not. So the people in this room own an iPad? How do you like them? Odds? So, yeah, Anyway did really, really well. So we both got that kriska just a little wrong. But I'm going to give him a checkmark on this because he was more more

right than not right. I was totally wrong. Alright, So it's your turn to read another one of my predictions. Yes, here's another one we got that you got mostly right, and uh yeah, Anyway will come and go without an announcement of a new console from Sony or Microsoft. But Nintendo might come out with something, and I agreed with you. I thought that would be likely. Yeah, I thought at the time that Nintendo might announce a successor possibly to the Wei. As it turns out, Nintendo did not do that.

Nintendo or hasn't so far. December. We still have December to go. Yeah, this isn't the time for announcements like that because people don't want to cannibalize the today sales. They're gonna keep mom on it even I'm sure they're all. I agree with my earlier self when I said that I think they're working on the next All of them are working on the next generation. They're just ready to

share with us what they're doing. Yeah, and and and my reasoning behind that was that both Sony and Microsoft were coming out with new peripherals and that would be the move and the connect um and uh and I thought, well, if you're doing that, you wouldn't want to cannibalize those sales by suggesting that you were going to come out with a new console the following year, because people might say, well, what if the peripherals aren't compatible with the new console.

So um, yeah, I was I was right. Sony and Microsoft did not announce anything. Nintendo did announce the three DS, which is a new gaming device, but it's not a console. It's a handheld. It is an interesting handheld device, and it is a variation on an original on their Earth. So you know, I'm more right than not with this one, but I think, uh, yeah, it's not a it's not a total win on this one either. Yeah, the tech industry is kind of aren't to pin down on. Yeah, alright,

hit me with another one. We have one of these science more science e This is before we had a science oriented podcast. So we actually talked about the Large Hadron Collider, which is the if you'll remember, the Large Particle Accelerator in Europe, Europe, Europe. There we go. Uh, and you said it would either uncover evidence of the Higgs boson particle or something even weirder. Yeah, that has

not really come to pass. Although recently the LHC has managed to recreate on a miniscule scale conditions similar to that that we believe existed right after the Big Bang. So that's pretty cool, but nothing to the point where at least none of the information has trickled out where it's something brand new that we didn't know, it's something

that we haven't achieved before. But it's not like we have new information that either confirms our hypotheses or uh disproves them, and now we have to come up with a new model. So right, so nothing as drumatic as that, all right, can I read another one of yours? Now? Okay, so Chris, here's another one of yours. The Nexus one will come out and be a consumer device and will be exclusive to T Mobile. And I agreed with that. The Nexus one phone, uh, Android phone did come out

through both Google and through T Mobile. Uh, it was a consumer device. Um, it wasn't technically exclusive to T Mobile, but there was no real easy way to use it on other networks if you were just purchasing for yourself. They did sell that well, the Google the phone you could get from Google was unlocked GSM phone, so you could, you know, use it with a T and T here in the United States. That would mean you'd have to

shave down the simcard though, right or no? The SIM cards on a T and T are different, our size, differently from the ones on T Mobile. So that was the that was the plan. I'm sorry I misspoke then, No, no, no, no, I think but they were unlocked. Yeah, they were unlocked and so um, but you didn't have to buy a contract with mobile to exactly. Yeah, you could use this on an existing contract if you already had one with T Mobile, you didn't have to sign a new contract. Um,

I will. I'm gonna say that this is a win for you. Um. Now. Granted, the next one did not remain a consumer device for all of two thousand and ten, it did go off the market eventually. Yeah, it actually, it actually left the market pretty quickly all things considered. Yeah, it was one of those things where I think Google discovered that trying to sell a device through their own

system just didn't work as well. For one thing, it didn't allow consumers the chance to get a device in their hands and play with it before committing to purchasing the device. And uh, and smartphones aren't cheap, so it's hard to say, you know what, I'm just gonna take it on faith that this is a good hand set and a good operating system, and I'm just gonna buy

it without getting my hands on it. So um, Yeah, it didn't stay out for the consumer market for all of two thousand and ten, but I think it's still count and uh, although I have fewer predictions, I think it might be a good point time to point out that My next one was sort of related, which was T Mobile's merger with another company, which, man, it's been rumored like every three months, and it was I think it was big around this time last year, around the

end of the year two thousand nine. But it's just as as many times as people have predicted its death. T Mobile is still hanging in there as a separate company. Independent. I think we called out survey says you would get an on this one. Yeah, I think you're right, all right, so why don't you do it? Um? Okay, uh, here's here's a ding on the game show buzzer for you. We'll start to see the pay version of Hulu appear in hooray it. As a matter of fact, we both

had predicted that one. Hooray for both of us. Um, well, I mean this was this was one of our more uh easy targets. I would say, well, the low hanging fruit. It was. It was one of those things where it was being talked about at in in two thousand nine, but the question was whether or not Hulu would actually go through with it, because you know, sometimes companies talk about potential business models but nothing ever happens of it.

In this case, it did happen. Hulu does have a paid version, Hulu Plus, which has some some benefits and some limitations compared to the free Hulu service. So yeah, that one was that one we both got right. Hooray, let's do another one of mine. All right. You also said that we would see wireless HD components. Okay, never, that's just market Yeah, all right, Okay, so that didn't happen.

This was talking about things like devices like DVD players and Blu ray players and cable boxes even that would not require you to use a cable to hook up directly to your TV. They would have power cables, but otherwise would transmit data wirelessly. We're still not there yet. Despite the fact that I've seen such systems at the CSU conference every year since we started going, they still

have not really hit the market. My guess is it may partially be due to the economy, because people's stuff already works and there I would imagine that the manufacturers are probably thinking, yeah, I'm not sure that people are ready to upgrade. I think it might also be due to those guys in the parking lot all holding bats and wearing jackets that say Monster Cable on the back. You're anyway, that was not me. Um, I predict next

year my legs will be broken. Um. You also said we'd see the war of the four G technologies take off. That's wy max and LTE. We're just starting to see that come to a head right now. So I I say that's a partial win. I would, but Verizon will be At the time we're recording this, Verizon has announced that it's going to be launching its LTE network and I think thirty eight cities in just a few days. So by the time this this publishes, it will already

have happened. The launch will have happened. Yeah. I have a similar related prediction. Yeah, oh you said, um, on's where it's the next to last one on the next Yeah, the first LTE structure will get built out in the United States because there were some in Europe already. And that's true. Although it's really funny because it wasn't Verizon who did it first, nor was it a T n T or sprint to our T mobile. It was metro PCs who beat everyone to the punch. Where you at? Dog?

Where am I at? I'm sorry? Yeah, tro PCs is actually I've got friends who use that that that that there's subscribers to metro PCs. Yeah. Now they are a much smaller carrier, which probably helps them in building out their LTE network. But uh yeah, one day tuned into the Tech News Metro PCs builds out an LTE network and I said, I'm sorry, what but they did it? So they I get a point. My next the next for me is a another big win for me, for me, not for them. Ah. Yes, that would be Palm, the

formerly independent company. Uh that came out with the Palm Pre smartphone. Of course, the Palm pilots for years the handheld digital assistance. You said that they would either go out of business or get acquired, and they got acquired, So there you go. I actually now again this was one of those things that this was not a sure thing when I predicted it, but it was it was something I felt fairly confident about because they were coming out with a new phone. The Pre actually know at

this point was the Pixie. The Pre had already come out. Um at the beginning of nine they showed it c E S CS two thousand nine. It was yeah, everyone went crazy for the Pre. When c S two thousand nine, it didn't come out until the spring of two thousand nine, which was the problem, right, They couldn't capitalize on that buzz, and then the Pre just did not sell very well.

They came out with the Pixie towards the end of two thousand nine, but I said that the Pixie was not priced at such a point that it would keep the company going. I had forgotten and uh, and sure enough I was right. They started to really waiver and

then they got acquired. But they were acquired by Hewlett Packard and p HP is talking about doing some things with the Palm, the new web OS, the operating system for the Pre and Pixie, talking about using it for tablets or possibly even phones, even though they said at one time they weren't interested in doing phones. Then that's one of those things that kind of flip flops on. Well, you know, when you got a good platform. And apparently, from from what I've heard, the web os is a

pretty decent operating system. So there, okay, so let me do one of yours. Apple will embrace music rental and or streaming service on iTunes. We are still waiting for this, but it appears that something along those lines may be coming. They the company purchased La La. Yeah, and La La was a streaming music service. Yep. And they're building in a huge data center in North Carolina. So it may

be that this is still going to hit. It's just doesn't look like it's going to hit by the end of Yeah, and there are there are a lot of licensing agreements that have to be in place for something like this to happen, and it wouldn't. It's also prevented Spotify from launching in the United States. There's licensing agreements exactly. It wouldn't surprise me to see this if they do

get all their those those problems tucked away. It wouldn't surprise me to see this announced being announced in January, because there's usually an Apple announcement sometime in January. Of course, that might also be the next iPad that we hear about. Yep. Do you want to do another oil skip skip the next one that's on my list, because that's the one that I want to save to the end. Okay, we can do that. You mentioned the rise in three D entertainment.

That would be a great day old ding. Yeah, for at least for movies. For TV, it's still pretty slow to take off. Although three D televisions are on the market as of the holiday season, and there are three D channels out already. Um, but it's it's still in its earliest days for television. But as far as movies go, Yeah, it went crazy. Avatar really helped that a lot. Yep, it hasn't uh, it hasn't stalled out, so it's continuing to move. It's just moving slowly. So yeah, I think

I think it's a win. Um. Also, you uh you said more virtual machines will be used in the workplace. Yeah, that one is kind of hard for me to verify. I don't know that that many companies actually switched to a virtual machine. Uh system. Now, that would be of course, where you don't necessarily have a computer. You might have a monitor and a keyboard and you have a vert wall of virtual machine that you lug into the it's actually kind of hosted on a another corporate machine and

uh so you don't have your own personal computer. Uh. There may be some companies have switched over, but it wasn't a big movement as far as I can tell, So I'm going to call that a miss on my part. Then you've got movie studios will start testing downloadable movie business models, possibly through through the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal. Well, the acquisition is still pending pending, so that's we'll have

to wait and see if that actually goes through. But as far as the studios testing downloadable movie business models, we we can see streaming versions of this all over the place. Right, there's Plus, there's Netflix, there are other um, there are other actual set top devices that are doing this. I call this a win. Well Netflix, Uh, the Netflix CEO just not terribly long time before we recorded this, in early December, announced that Netflix is a streaming video

company and not a DVD mail company anymore. So it's definitely the way they're they're headed. Well, I only have two more left, so, um, there's one more I have, but I think we should save that before right before yours then, so let's go with yours. The newspaper attempt to get behind a paywall. That was a big thing at the end of last year. Um, people talking about the possibility of removing themselves from Google. Uh, you know

for some companies that have newspapers behind the paywall. Now, if you access the article through Google instead of going directly to the site, you can read the whole article.

I won't mention any you know, major newspaper names. Rupert Murdoch may be involved with them, famous business publications owned by Yes, but yeah, I mean there there are situations where in which they've said, you know, hey, no free ride if you come to our site, no matter how you get there, You're gonna have to pay if you

want to read our content. And um, yeah, at the time him, you said that you expected other newspapers and blogs would step in if some of them went behind a paywall, and uh, the big, bigger papers would go back to the old business model. Yeah, we haven't seen it happen whole sale like that. No, No, I mean the Telegraph just announced that it's going to be having some sort of not a paywall, but it's going to

have a paid uh access model of some sort. And the details were not available as of the recording of this podcast, but they did specifically say it wasn't going to be a paywall system. Uh. So there are other newspapers that are trying this, but it did not happen at the speed at which I imagined. So this one, this one's is still just a maybe. Yeah. I I just thought have a prediction uh for the Predictions podcast based on this, so I'll bring that up when we

actually do our predictions. But yeah, I kind of expected it to happen with a couple of them have been rumbling around, but they didn't. Actually it was saying go forward. It moves slower than we thought. So alright, so we're down to the lab the final two. Right, So here's here's Chris Palette's final prediction for which was Jonathan's computer will die before people. I want you to listen carefully to this. All right, hang on, that's me hitting the

E key and nothing is happening. Still, I still have the same computer, and the E key does not work. The W key does not work, the A key does not work, the S key does not work. The tilty is still missing in action. I never found the tilty key, so I have to actually plug in a supplemental keyboard if I want to type anything on this computer. But the key the keyboard is although it is not functioning, the rest of the computer is well for a given definition of functioning. Yes, so it did not let me

it this way. I don't have a new one, so that one is U for all intents and purposes on this alright, technically that's a technicality, and I still have three weeks. Um that's true. Actually you could if you wanted to, maybe maybe it will quote unquote slip off my desk before the end of the year, so you uh can I can I read the last one for you to Jonathan will appear on This Weekend Tech sometime in well, so c E. That's in January. Yeah, that was like two weeks after we recorded my podcast. So

we recorded the podcast about two weeks later. I went to c and as I was there, I was passing by Leo Laporte and he had his This week in Tech live coverage of c e S table up and running, and his producer saw me and waived me on and got me on This week in Text live coverage. Now, technically that was not an episode of This Weekend Tech. It was, however, on the This Weekend Tech network and I was live, so I thought in January, I'm like, oh,

I'm just going to call us a win. I still haven't been technically on the show This Week in Tech, however, I have appeared several times on Tech News Today, which is one of the shows on This Weekend Tech hosted by Tom Merritt. So yeah, and I'd like to point out that you have a very nifty cap on. I'm also wearing a This Weekend Tech baseball cap right now. I totally wasn't thinking about that, but yes, I am wearing a baseball cap with the Twit logo on it.

And that's because I got that at CS and not because he is a Twit. No, that that's unrelated but also true. So, yes, you wanted to mention a few of the stories before we wrap it up, on things that we didn't hit here. So I I see some of those stories that you listed that interrupt him? Sorry, no, go ahead, Uh, but you know some of these things I think the listeners will agree we we wouldn't necessarily have hit anyone they were they were not Yeah, they

were not on the radar. Yeah yeah there, and and they're probably. I'm sure there's some big ones I didn't. I did this off the top of my head, so I was mostly thinking of the stories that were recent. I'm sure there were stories that happened throughout the year that anyway. We did not predict Google TV. No, we didn't.

We didn't predict Google Buzz nor the massive fallout that immediately followed the launch of Google Buzz, because if you don't remember, some people, probably a lot of people aren't using Google Buzz at all anymore. I do. I still use it, and there's there's been a legal settlement involving that too, right, but Google Buzz, if you don't remember, there were a lot of there was a big outcry about privacy issues where you could see people who were context of the people you knew and um, and there

were a lot of other issues around it. So we didn't predict that at all, Nor did we predict the other big Google story of about the driverless car program. That's true, that's true. Yeah, for a while there it looked like Google is going to be in the news every week. Actually, for a while there, Google was in the news every week. Uh, I meant for the rest of our lives. I wouldn't be surprised if that still

holds true. You mentioned Facebook the exactly where all of your messages are going to go through a kind of central funnel on Facebook, So it's kind of like email messaging, instant messaging. All that the notes and all that kind of stuff all kind of goes through one I don't have access to that yet. But we didn't predict that. We didn't think that. We didn't think about Facebook having a what some people had been calling a Gmail killer, and even Facebook has said since then that that's not

what this is intended to be. UM did not predict my spaces redesign, despite the fact that I think they had announced it sometime in two thousand nine. Where do we predict that they would be partnering with Facebook? I think I think maybe gone out of business or something else. I think we mostly didn't think about my Space at all. We did not We didn't think that Windows Phone seven was going to be uh well, we didn't predict that Windows Phones seven was really gonna look as awesome as

it does. You know, Um, I actually got to play with Windows Phone seven recently, and uh and I was really impressed with the operating system. I thought for a while I was skeptical that Windows could I know, crazy huh A skeptical that Windows could jump back into the smartphone wars, because I thought that Android and Apple really had that sewn up. But Windows fun seven does look like it's a legitimate contender. I mean it, it's slick, it does what it's supposed to do, at least the

limited amount of time I've had with it, it did. Um, so I would not be surprised to see that actually take off, especially if if Windows partners with some really good handset manufacturers. Uh. We did not predict the iPhone for the massive redesign of the iPhone. I mean, we didn't predict that. We didn't predict FaceTime. We did not predict and ten I gait. There was no way we can know that we were holding it wrong. I'm left handed,

by the way. So anyway, UM, we did not predict the whole this was Yeah, this is the story that one of the stories that drove me crazy in Gizmodo and leaking the iPhone four story months before it actually launched, and not just the leak, but the whole stolen slash missing iPhone for debacle, finding it quote unquote on a bar stool and or stealing it depending on who you ask, and then selling it essentially to Gizmoto and then Gizmodo

running the story. Did not predict that. UM didn't predict the Microsoft Kid going on sale, then not being on sale, then being on sale again. We didn't predict the Danger debacle. Either, that's true. Yeah, that's something that came up earlier, the Danger servers, and I would not have I would not have imagined that after Microsoft acquired Danger. I mean that the kin as kin to uh, the T mobile sidekick, um, and I would not have expected that to have gone

away the way it did. But and I also have here, we did not predict this one's. This one's the juicy story of the bunch. We did not predict HP CEO Mark Heard having to resign from HP due to a scandal, which, depending again upon whom you ask, either was about inappropriate relationships or just mismanagement of money or or unreported expenses. I guess it's the nice way of putting it. Uh. Nor did we predict that that he would then just

turn around and become a co president over at Oracle. Yeah, that was actually a pretty scandalous story all around, because, I mean HP and Oracle. You're talking about two major companies, and you're talking about a man who presumably has quite a bit of knowledge about one company's I p going to work for a competitor, Yes, in a very prominent position, Yes, as a prominent as it gets as it turns out. Yeah, yeah, that's a little freaky. Yeah, we also didn't know I

think about it, predict the wiki leaks. That's something that you know, has become very and it's still unfolding as we record this podcast. They've been undergoing denial of service attacks. They switched over to the Amazon Cloud system, and now I've just heard before we win in that Amazon has pulled that. Yes, they are no longer on Amazon. Yeah, they're like, you know what, maybe we don't want to have the target of all these d d o S attacks. Yeah, no,

we didn't predict that at all. Um. Yeah, there's and what we didn't predict could go into another eight episodes. So let's wrap this up because I think we've gone way too long for this one. Yeah, it's it just goes to show you how mercurial I hate that word mercurial. The tech world is. Things changed so frequently, and you know, we take our our best shots, but we don't always. Yeah. I can't wait for us to record the predictions for eleven.

We're not doing that during this particular record wording sessions. Yeah. Yeah, they should be fun though. All right, So if you guys have any predictions for eleven, that you think are absolutely positively going to come true. Email me and that way I can get the advantage over Poulette, or you can post to our Facebook or Twitter accounts they handle There is tech Stuff H s W. Our email address is tech stuff at how stuff works dot com and Chris and I will talk to you again, probably before

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