{"id":5335,"date":"2014-01-01T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2016-12-24T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T19:25:02","slug":"high-tech-predictions-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5335","title":{"rendered":"High Tech Predictions for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the sun dawns upon a new year, it’s time for me to don my festive swami turban and look into the future. What fortune paves the high tech roads in the year 2014?
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\nApple TV<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is Apple missing the boat on this one or what? I’m sure CEO Tim Cook reads my blog every week. For the past three years I’ve predicted the Apple TV and he’s blown it every single time.<\/p>\n

The key isn’t figuring out a box to deliver apps. I mean, seriously: Who really<\/em> uses iTunes to listen to music from their computer on their TV? And even my cheap-o Blu-Ray player features a Netflix app. No, I’m talking about what Apple does best: The interface<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dear Apple: We need a way to communicate with our high-tech, Internet-ready televisions. We need something you do best: An interface. Cough it up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I predict<\/em> you’ll cough it up. This is a prediction post, not a rant.<\/p>\n

Bigger Tablets<\/strong><\/p>\n

I bet Samsung comes out with a Galaxy Tab Mega this year. Perhaps it will be 11 inches, but I want a 14-inch tablet. It’s coming. Just the other day I read a rumor that a 12.2-inch iPad is coming, although Apple is generally slow to market so I won’t actually predict it for next year.<\/p>\n

Regardless, I see a parallel between tablet and historical computer monitor sizes.<\/p>\n

For a long time, computer monitors were 14-inches or 15-inches diagonal. (And they were all in the 4:3 ratio, not this widescreen stuff.) Then came the 17-inch monitors. They were huge<\/em>! Then 19-inches, then 21-inches, which was about as big as you wanted a glass CRT monitor. (They were too heavy and expensive.)<\/p>\n

I predict tablets will parallel the early monitor size increases. A 21-inch tablet? I’m not predicting one, but I might in a few years.<\/p>\n

Bigger iPhone<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is almost a gimme: Apple is eyeing the phablet<\/em> market, the one that Samsung now owns with the Galaxy Note III and that HTC is eager to grab with the HTC One Max.<\/p>\n

Super Huge Samsung Galaxy Universe Phone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just like the bigger tablets, I bet Samsung foists an 8-inch phone on mankind. I placing this prediction down on the list because it’s probably more whacky than the others, but who knows?<\/p>\n

Personally, a phone I can’t easily slip into or out of my front pants pocket will never be on my wish list. The Galaxy Note is big enough. Something bigger? I’ll pass.<\/p>\n

Windows and Office Something<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe Microsoft will toss out a new version of Windows next year. This is another “out there” prediction, but it could happen. Windows 8 is just so awful that I believe a Windows 9 or a “Windows Will You Forgive Us” version is already in the oven at Microsoft’s binary kitchen. This new version of Windows will be more traditional and focus on speed as opposed to a new interface.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’ll probably be wrong on this point. Regardless:<\/p>\n

I also see a new Office release. That one frightens me. Office is pretty stable and I really don’t want to see Microsoft either go with a full online version of Office or turn it into a mobile app. Either one will be met with cries of anguish from an already displeased group of Office users.<\/p>\n

As usual, I have a year to prove myself right or wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again I dust off the old crystal ball to show how Im completely unable to predict the high tech future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}