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Implants FTW!

I think that he us wrong, and using that as an excuse to explain why they are not pushing their own tablet ideas. I think that tablets will be around for a lot longer than that. It is ebook readers that concern me as to whether they will be around in 5 years. They might have merged with tablets depending on the screens. Though I use my iPad for so many things, and can conceivably think of other uses for more than one.

I think he is correct when we are talking very long term. Most tech products we use today were difficult to imagine twenty years ago.

The trick is to predict the future and be the first to deliver...

Very long term I agree, but is five years that far away? As to your second point that is not quite true. Apple were not necessarily first with the tablet, but they were first to get it right.

eBook readers are curious devices. So curious that some of them have sprouted colour displays, video playing and apps.

Pretending to be tablets?


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Yeah and the playbook was a wonderful piece of hardware and nobody moans about blackberries.

Don't think I'll be listening to this dude.

From what I gather, there may not be Blackberry in 5 year’s time.

The BES server at the place I work goes out of licence in September. We either have to pay another wodge of cash to keep it, or chuck it in and just get everybody to use Activesync (and therefore buy some people new phones). I've passed it up to the people with the purse strings. I suspect the latter option may be what's taken. They've had three outages during working hours in the last year - which means you don't get any messages other than SMS and can't browse the web on your phone either - while our in house exchange has had, well, none.

I can't imagine we're the only place making that kind of calculation.

If you've got less than 2000 users then bring up a BES express server or two (for free) and save £15 a month per handset on Blackberry tax by changing the phones to BES Express licenses rather than full fat BES.

2000 users total or 2000 Blackbery users?

Blackberry users

And Apple should close up shop.

We've been here before, only instead of talking about companies we're talking products.

Really? I mean, really?
There's a lot of products that fall in to 'tech' category that aren't simply mobile phones, tablets and portable gaming machines. (8+)

Mark

OK, I should have said "many" were difficult to imagine.

And by "imagine", I meant in more detail than simply "a portable gadget that does handy stuff, like on Start Trek".

You only have to look at old TV programs that tried to predict the future to see how funny most of their ideas seem now.

Some general predictions are safe, like "stuff will evolve to be better". It's the more revolutionary ideas that are difficult to predict, even when they seem simple and perhaps obvious when they happen.

I'm still in shock that one of the biggest revolutions of our time was really a marketing marvel more than a technological one. A few geeks and a lot of company directors carried tablets and smart phones around before Apple came to the market, but they managed to actually sell the idea. Normal people just didn't know they couldn't live without them until it was all explained with glossy marketing. Although Nokia had an app store a decade earlier, no one was writing for it. The only "civilians" with a BB were drug dealers.

Now, over 30% of the world's population has a 'nix box in their pocket. That's billions of devices. That's a revolution.

These devices don't address a new desire. We've wanted access to information and communication for hundreds of years. State of the art used to be stone tablets and bongos. Of course, come the zombie apocalypse we may need to blow the dust off them.

My prediction is that the next revolution will be in input. My finger is barely adequate on a tablet, and very awkward on a phone. We've tried the stylus before, and although I think it's a better option most people just lose them (even if they're tied to the box). Voice input is over 95% accurate, provided the cat isn't going nya nya and I'm in the quiet of my hobbit hole. I don't like talking to my phone in public anyway. Glass gets over this by being glued to your face and using a limited vocabulary, in combination with very simple menus. It's far too limited for serious creativity.

We need something better to unleash your full creative ability. Unfortunately, my only ideas are cybernetic which are presently sociably unacceptable even though technologically feasible:

Would you have a brain implant?

What would it do?
I'm not sure the tech's ready yet.