Speaker 1: Get in test with technology with text stuff from that everyone,
Speaker 1: and welcome to tex Stuff. This is Jonathan Strickland and
Speaker 1: I'm Lauren And you know what, there's something that we
Speaker 1: like to do every year. Uh. And then there's also
Speaker 1: these prediction shows that we do. So every year we
Speaker 1: do on tech Stuff of prediction about what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in the world of technology over the course of
Speaker 1: the following twelve months. Jonathan despises doing this, and it's
Speaker 1: not so much that I despise it, it's just that, Uh,
Speaker 1: I dread it. Um. I love making the predictions. I
Speaker 1: dread this time of year where we take the predictions
Speaker 1: we made twelve months ago and then we ourselves harshly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do a report card. If you remember in past episodes, Uh,
Speaker 1: when it was me and Chris, I would get all
Speaker 1: check marks and Chris got all x is. But I
Speaker 1: understand we have a different grading system this time that
Speaker 1: involves some form of life. So I guess we'll have
Speaker 1: to judge how well we do as we go along.
Speaker 1: We'll work it out as we go. Um. This was
Speaker 1: actually one of the first episodes that I recorded with
Speaker 1: Tech Stuff, and listening back to it was pretty embarrassing,
Speaker 1: And so I want to say thank you to everyone
Speaker 1: who has continued listening to tech stuff despite the fact
Speaker 1: that you had to hear my learning curve, considering that
Speaker 1: you had never podcast before. Really, I don't think it was,
Speaker 1: you know, dreadful or anything. So you're being really hard
Speaker 1: on yourself. I no, no, no, that that's but that's
Speaker 1: but that's a good indicator for this episode to come. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we are now going to take a look at the
Speaker 1: predictions we made and say what happened. So now both
Speaker 1: of us made a bunch of pretty safe predictions, or
Speaker 1: at least what seemed like safe at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we haven't discussed when we're gonna
Speaker 1: do our our predictions for two thousand and fourteen. We
Speaker 1: are planning on doing that, but I think I might
Speaker 1: go a little more crazy next time because some of
Speaker 1: the ones when I went back over and I'm like, well, geez, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: thanks for predicting that if you go into the water
Speaker 1: you will get wet. Yeah, your first one is a
Speaker 1: little bit like that. Yeah, And my first one was
Speaker 1: that mobile web browsing would outpace desktop browsing. Now, granted
Speaker 1: this was one of those things that seemed pretty pretty
Speaker 1: sure based upon the trend on the edge at the
Speaker 1: end of but it hadn't actually pushed over, which it
Speaker 1: really pretty promptly didn't. Yeah, exactly, I didn't take very long.
Speaker 1: And the way that there are different ways of measuring
Speaker 1: this obviously, but calm Score, which is often cited as
Speaker 1: one of the analysts companies that will look into this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, the way they looked at it as
Speaker 1: they looked at mobile web browsing when it came to
Speaker 1: online shopping, and they discovered that online shopping through mobile
Speaker 1: was being done like fifty at the time and that
Speaker 1: the other were PCs. So if you look at it
Speaker 1: just from a shopping standpoint, mobile browsing overtook PCs, and
Speaker 1: they extrapolate to say that other types of browsing follows
Speaker 1: suit based upon the the online shopping model. Uh, out
Speaker 1: of that most of that of that was from smartphones
Speaker 1: and the other eleven percent of that was from tablets.
Speaker 1: So even with online shopping, smartphones are still outpacing tablets
Speaker 1: when it comes to that particular version of mobile web browsing.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it appears that this prediction was pretty much true.
Speaker 1: So gave me so according to our new scoring system,
Speaker 1: I get two squids and an ink sac. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Als okay, I guess alright, So, Lauren, what was your
Speaker 1: first prediction? My first prediction was that laptop sales would
Speaker 1: make a comeback while desktop sales continued to decline, and
Speaker 1: that tablets um wouldn't perform as well as as they
Speaker 1: had been, like, it'll slow down, that it would kind
Speaker 1: of slow down and even out as people realize that
Speaker 1: they needed more power and practicality and tablets could really
Speaker 1: provide UM. And I was pretty wrong. I was not
Speaker 1: correct about that. Well. To be fair, there were a
Speaker 1: lot of factors that went into making this complicated issue,
Speaker 1: one of which was something that will factor into another prediction,
Speaker 1: which I would say is Windows eight. Windows eight I
Speaker 1: think actually discouraged people from getting laptop. Yeah. It did
Speaker 1: way more poorly than I think anyone expected it. At
Speaker 1: the end of to do. Yeah, a lot of companies
Speaker 1: had declines that continued in both desktop and laptop sales,
Speaker 1: although one company started to make up some ground and
Speaker 1: market share. From what I understand, Apple apples have always
Speaker 1: been trailing behind like Windows based PCs when it comes
Speaker 1: to market share, particularly in the US, but inten they
Speaker 1: hit twelve percent of the market share, and some analysts
Speaker 1: were saying that they have the potential to get up
Speaker 1: to the market in the near future, which would be
Speaker 1: a huge coup for Apple. Yeah. Um was actually the
Speaker 1: first year since two thousand three that Max sales dropped,
Speaker 1: but their laptops are outsell in their desktops three to one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which not a big surprise because it wasn't until recently
Speaker 1: that the desktop's got a major update. Yeah. According to MPD,
Speaker 1: desktop and laptop sales fell by five and two percent
Speaker 1: respectively during the whole back to school season, as opposed
Speaker 1: to yeah, um, which is supposedly you know it's it's
Speaker 1: usually the biggest time that computer sea sales. Yeah. Back
Speaker 1: back to school and the holiday shopping season are like
Speaker 1: the two most important times of the year for most
Speaker 1: laptop However, those declines were mild compared to the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. Um uh sales each quarter according to Gardner,
Speaker 1: we're down about ten percent UM each quarter compared with
Speaker 1: each quarter last year. But the tablet market is still growing.
Speaker 1: Um Well, I mean, okay, it is slowing a little bit.
Speaker 1: I wasn't completely wrong about it flattening a little. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's over thirty six percent growth, which is not insignificant.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's true. Uh, but you know, you also have
Speaker 1: to look like the tablet market is still smaller than
Speaker 1: the overall PC market, so when they grow, the percentages
Speaker 1: are larger. Right Like Like if you if you sell
Speaker 1: two units and then the next year you sell eight units,
Speaker 1: that percentage growth is huge. If you're selling two million
Speaker 1: units and the next year you sell two and fifty
Speaker 1: million units, that relative growth is small. So it's tablet
Speaker 1: market really didn't exist until what was a two thousand
Speaker 1: nine when the first I pad came out. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, the the previous tablets had not really had
Speaker 1: any consumer penetration at all. So uh, yeah, it's but
Speaker 1: it is. It does look like it's starting to mature,
Speaker 1: like it's starting to slow down. So I agree that
Speaker 1: you were right on that one. So, um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you. I'm giving you a squid and a half,
Speaker 1: but you also apparently get a squid squeaky toy. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means. That sounds fine, okay, Um,
Speaker 1: I got My next prediction was enterprises will resist adopting
Speaker 1: Windows eight another gimme um, because I mean, any time
Speaker 1: a new operating system comes out, enterprises are going to
Speaker 1: lag behind consumers, even if the operating system is is
Speaker 1: received with great joy and love. Oh absolutely, Because I
Speaker 1: mean enterprises have companies have a whole systems that are
Speaker 1: based upon a single operating system and changing them all
Speaker 1: over is time consuming and there's testing involved, and it's
Speaker 1: expensive and u scary, so you never know if it's
Speaker 1: going to work and and then you end up having
Speaker 1: made an investment and then you eat the expense if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out. So not a big surprise. What
Speaker 1: was kind of interesting to me was that Windows eight
Speaker 1: did seem to be a little bit of a of
Speaker 1: an albatross, Like it didn't get a lot of love
Speaker 1: for many people. Like a lot of people really didn't
Speaker 1: like that operating system when it came out. And like
Speaker 1: I said, it may have even contributed to that two
Speaker 1: people resisting purchasing a new notebook. So that's not great.
Speaker 1: But um but but but but good call on that one.
Speaker 1: Umdeed do you have do you have a I'm looking
Speaker 1: I'm consulting my squid uh profile here According to this,
Speaker 1: I don't get a squid, but I get a squib.
Speaker 1: So if you shoot me, then I get the little
Speaker 1: bit of pop noise like in an action movie. So
Speaker 1: that's something. Did some tentacles come out along with the
Speaker 1: blood with me? Yes? Excellent. Yes, it's mostly because we're
Speaker 1: eight lunch. I'm not even going to ask about that.
Speaker 1: So my second prediction was that UM touch screens would
Speaker 1: be integrated into more products, including most laptops and UM
Speaker 1: and display. Yeah, like things like that, like a secondary
Speaker 1: display for your computer or even a main display for
Speaker 1: your computer. That was that was you were you were
Speaker 1: you were. I think being very optimistic. I was, and
Speaker 1: I think I think the trend is definitely there. I
Speaker 1: think it's there and I and it definitely didn't happen
Speaker 1: this year. I think it's going to happen in the
Speaker 1: next like two years. I think I was being way
Speaker 1: too optimistic. But still the trend is obviously there. I mean,
Speaker 1: because people have grown to love the whole touch screen experience.
Speaker 1: It's just a question of does that translate to the
Speaker 1: laptop and desktop experience and can you create something that's
Speaker 1: compelling enough to make that a reason for you to
Speaker 1: have that feature in your in your device. Everyone was
Speaker 1: hoping that Windows eight was going to be that thing.
Speaker 1: It was not. It was not that thing, and the
Speaker 1: new mac os is kind of also not that thing.
Speaker 1: That's not something that Apple has moved toward yet, but
Speaker 1: it's still a possibility to And it's not like it's
Speaker 1: not like people weren't including them. There were lots of
Speaker 1: of models out there that did include them. Yeah. According
Speaker 1: to MPD, about of all notebooks shipped in had touch screens,
Speaker 1: which sounds like a relatively small number until you think
Speaker 1: about the fact that before basically none, ye hardly like
Speaker 1: some at the very tail end of just leading into
Speaker 1: c E S and uh yeah, so that's actually quite
Speaker 1: a large number. I mean, that's a big gamble for
Speaker 1: a company to do, is to invest in that kind
Speaker 1: of new technology because that's going to impact everything that
Speaker 1: that product encounters from that moment on. Right. So, Um,
Speaker 1: so eleven percent is actually pretty big, and it all
Speaker 1: depended upon which company you're talking about. They had different numbers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Sony had a lot, didn't think Yep, seventeen
Speaker 1: point six percent of all notebooks they shipped were equipped
Speaker 1: with touch screens. However, um, they did not make up
Speaker 1: a majority of the actual touch screens on the market,
Speaker 1: whereas Lenovo, Uh, they only had seven point four percent
Speaker 1: of all of their laptops shipping with touch screens, but
Speaker 1: they they accounted for fourteen point seven percent of the
Speaker 1: touch screen laptop market share. Yeah. So, in other words,
Speaker 1: Lenovo had if you look at all the stuff they offered,
Speaker 1: a smaller percentage of it had touch screens, but they
Speaker 1: made up the majority of the touch screens based upon
Speaker 1: other companies are buying. Yeah, so that might mean that
Speaker 1: Lenovo's you know, cheaper. Yeah, they were more attuned to
Speaker 1: their customers a cheaper Yes, that is usually what that means.
Speaker 1: Um so, uh so what are what are we What
Speaker 1: are we going to give me? According to our squid
Speaker 1: valuation system, you get a sucker, not tentacle sucker, but
Speaker 1: like a lollypo, it's squid flavored. Yeah, that's what you get.
Speaker 1: Moving on, I'm failing to see how that's a positive. No,
Speaker 1: you know, it all depends on whether or not you
Speaker 1: like squid. Uh. You know, it's like, you know, Calamari pops.
Speaker 1: It's the newest thing. So the next part another gimme, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to stick my neck out more next year,
Speaker 1: I'm reading these and just like, how lamed could I get?
Speaker 1: I said that the the NFC near field communication would
Speaker 1: not receive wide adoption in the United States, partly because
Speaker 1: Apple would not play ball. In other words, Apple was
Speaker 1: not going to incorporate NFC and its next iPhone. I'll
Speaker 1: have more to say about their next iPhone shortly, but
Speaker 1: I said that NFC just wasn't gonna get any traction
Speaker 1: in the United States on a meaningful level, and indeed
Speaker 1: it did not know because again Apple did not include it.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a huge part of it is that,
Speaker 1: you know, without without Apple getting on board, there's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's big. That's a that's a sizeable
Speaker 1: percentage of the smartphone poppy of your smartphone population can't
Speaker 1: use the technology. Yeah, then you're like, well, why would
Speaker 1: I invest in this if potential, especially if you've made
Speaker 1: the determination that perhaps your customers happen to be iPhone customers,
Speaker 1: They're like, well, I could spend a hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: retrofitting my my my vending so that I can take
Speaker 1: advantage of this, but if my clientele don't use it,
Speaker 1: then that's just a waste of money. So then, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the reasons, the reasons for this, I mean are
Speaker 1: are basically what we talked about in that episode. It's
Speaker 1: it's the cost of implementation, the concern about security, that's
Speaker 1: a big one, oh sure, the you know, the lack
Speaker 1: of consumer awareness about it. I mean, if you haven't
Speaker 1: been to Europe recently here in the US, and you're
Speaker 1: from the US, then yeah, you don't even know, Like
Speaker 1: you might not even be aware that this is a possibility.
Speaker 1: I mean people who have been using things like I've
Speaker 1: got a Nexus four phone and that has an n
Speaker 1: FC chip in it. I've got a Nexus seven tablet
Speaker 1: and that has an NFC chip in it. I have
Speaker 1: never used either of those products with the NFC, so
Speaker 1: but I'm aware of it because I own two of them.
Speaker 1: But even I haven't used them. And uh and even
Speaker 1: vendors not realizing the benefit that they would have of
Speaker 1: getting that kind of thing out here, right, So, so
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that challenges that have
Speaker 1: to be overcome before we see this become something that
Speaker 1: actually is is in widespread use in the United States.
Speaker 1: So that's a gimme. According to this I get h
Speaker 1: just a beak. I think it's from a squid. I
Speaker 1: gotta make better predictions. We we we really need to
Speaker 1: talk to to this squid referral provider. It's it's stuff
Speaker 1: to blow your minds. Robert, I don't know what he's
Speaker 1: been going through. Apparently he got really upset when we
Speaker 1: suggested that perhaps he was leaving human teeth around the office. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was, So this is a tangent, you guys. But
Speaker 1: but I found like a little plastic baggy of of
Speaker 1: what appears to be human teeth in one of our
Speaker 1: conference rooms, just sitting on the on the tray of
Speaker 1: our white board. Yeah, like just hanging out. I mean
Speaker 1: they're they're clean looking. And Robert claims he didn't do it,
Speaker 1: but he would have been my number one suspect. I
Speaker 1: personally blame Matt. And that is right here, that is
Speaker 1: sitting in for us, and he's staring at us with
Speaker 1: creepy eyes. But technically those were just Matt's eyes. So
Speaker 1: and he's nodding slowly. All right, Well, anyway, let's get
Speaker 1: back to another one of your suggests, your suggestions, your predictions. Yes,
Speaker 1: my next prediction was that the Internet of things would
Speaker 1: become more of a thing. Um, with more interconnected systems
Speaker 1: taking off. Yeah, and commercially speaking, this is this is accurate.
Speaker 1: We saw it, We saw a few launched. I think
Speaker 1: I think that you're more willing to give me that
Speaker 1: one than I am. Um. I mean, I've I've kind
Speaker 1: of incidentally seen a lot of seen and heard a
Speaker 1: lot of commercials for this kind of stuff. I haven't
Speaker 1: been able to find any numbers of the number of
Speaker 1: adoption yet. Um, but the fact that it's a product
Speaker 1: that more people have access to is pretty nifty. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It used to be that you were only only like
Speaker 1: bleeding edge adopters who had ridiculous amounts of money and uh,
Speaker 1: and we're willing to go through a contractor to get
Speaker 1: home automation. Only they had access to this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: We're just now starting to see it enter into the
Speaker 1: consumer marketplace where the average person can go into like
Speaker 1: a hardware store and buy stuff that has Internet of
Speaker 1: Things capabilities, Like the next Thermostatic came out with a
Speaker 1: new model this year, and they came out with a
Speaker 1: new smoke detector this year. So we're seeing it more
Speaker 1: and more. I personally happen to have Internet Internet connected
Speaker 1: light bulbs, so I can turn my lights on and
Speaker 1: off wherever I am. Yeah, so, uh, it's too bad.
Speaker 1: I should do the thing they did in the Big
Speaker 1: Bang theory, where I create a lamp that has one
Speaker 1: of these bulbs in it and then just give the
Speaker 1: Internet access to it and they can turn the lamp
Speaker 1: on and off whenever they want. That sounds like a
Speaker 1: project of terror to me personally. It could be interesting.
Speaker 1: I could end up getting Morse code. But I have
Speaker 1: not done that Internet, so don't expect to find it
Speaker 1: right now. But you know I do have. I mean,
Speaker 1: most know whether or not you're interested. Maybe I'm biased
Speaker 1: about the Internet of Things because I'm I'm technically an
Speaker 1: early adopter. Yeah well, I mean, okay, predictions from both
Speaker 1: Disco and Intelligence estimate that the decade long growth of
Speaker 1: the technology will will will be ninefold um. And that's
Speaker 1: that's big um. But you know, I'm still I am
Speaker 1: still saying that I was a little bit premature on
Speaker 1: this one. All right, Well, you're you are your own harsh,
Speaker 1: harshest critic, right, you get for that six squid. But
Speaker 1: they all are occupying the exact same space at the
Speaker 1: exact same time. So it's terror to look at. So
Speaker 1: don't look at it for too long or you will
Speaker 1: lose your sanity. I I think that I spent all
Speaker 1: morning looking at that. Is that a bad thing? I
Speaker 1: looked right in the trap ray? All right? So um,
Speaker 1: let's go on to my next one. I said that
Speaker 1: there will be a new iPhone, but it will be
Speaker 1: an incriminal improvement and not a huge departure from the
Speaker 1: previous generation of iPhones. So the iPhone five I said
Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be a big change from iPhone five.
Speaker 1: Depending upon how you look at it, you might agree
Speaker 1: or disagree with that. I'm willing to give you this
Speaker 1: one because I think that the I mean, yes, there
Speaker 1: were some some big bits to the to the five
Speaker 1: S and the five C more the five S, right Yeah.
Speaker 1: The five C was more or less the five but
Speaker 1: in different colors. Right Um? Yeah, casing does not count
Speaker 1: as an upgrade. That is exactly the sort of thing
Speaker 1: that you were talking about in in your and I
Speaker 1: think that if it had just been the five C released,
Speaker 1: then you wouldn't find your your win or failed to
Speaker 1: be Yeah, I wouldn't be Yeah, I wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: a debate at all. And to be fair, it's funny
Speaker 1: because in that episode, if you go back and listen
Speaker 1: to it, Lauren, you refer to it as it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be like an iPhone five S, which is exactly
Speaker 1: what they called it, and so that also indicates from
Speaker 1: Apple that it is not a huge jump, because I
Speaker 1: didn't call it the iPhone six. So I guess you know,
Speaker 1: that kind of fits in there. Obviously, anyone who's followed
Speaker 1: the iPhone news you are all aware of this. So UM,
Speaker 1: on that one, it looks like I'm getting a Technicolor squid,
Speaker 1: mostly because of the cases. So that's kind of cute.
Speaker 1: Lots lots of squids come in technicolor. Actually, yeah, well
Speaker 1: you know they do. When I'm done with them, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Not positive what that means, neither do I.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the next one, okay. Um I
Speaker 1: predicted that Apple, speaking speaking of Apple, that Apple would
Speaker 1: hold on to its share of the mobile market and
Speaker 1: that Android would be in second place, and this was um.
Speaker 1: Apple was holding forty eight percent of the mobile market
Speaker 1: share at the time of the podcast. UM. Due to
Speaker 1: the iPhone five release, it was it was up from
Speaker 1: about right, and and Google had dropped down to below
Speaker 1: what Apple had. It was somewhere in the forty range. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was so wrong. Um, I was really completely wrong,
Speaker 1: you guys, because according to com Score, Apple had a
Speaker 1: forty point six percent of the US market and Google
Speaker 1: had fifty one and BlackBerry was down to three point
Speaker 1: eight ouch boy, BlackBerry. But we neither of us made
Speaker 1: any predictions for BlackBerry this for this past year. But
Speaker 1: I think it's because you were too depressed. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I never owned My wife owned a BlackBerry once,
Speaker 1: but I never owned a BlackBerry. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those companies that I really wanted to see
Speaker 1: turn it around because obviously more competition benefits everybody ultimately.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they've just had such a rough time of it.
Speaker 1: But despite the fact that you know, Apple fell and
Speaker 1: market share, they still are the dominant hardware because Apple
Speaker 1: makes its own mobile sets right by far dominant and hardware,
Speaker 1: So they have forty point six you know, that is
Speaker 1: for the operating system. Uh, they also is for the
Speaker 1: hardware because Apple makes both operating system and the hardware,
Speaker 1: whereas Google just makes the operating system. And unless you're there.
Speaker 1: You can to their Motorola Google too, since they acquired it.
Speaker 1: But but there are dozens upon hundreds of Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a new one every every every darn week, he said,
Speaker 1: self editing. Yeah, there's a new one every darn week.
Speaker 1: And and so when you look at the actual hardware,
Speaker 1: Apple is the dominant player in the mobile market space
Speaker 1: market market space marketplace. There are words that Jonathan can say.
Speaker 1: You know what, Jonathan's going to say a lot more words,
Speaker 1: but Jonathan is going to wait to say those words
Speaker 1: for the second half of our podcast. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a quick break to thank our sponsor. Okay, we're back,
Speaker 1: and you know what, We're not done with Apple yet.
Speaker 1: So all all the all the people who are on
Speaker 1: one side of the camp or the other can yell
Speaker 1: at us. So I welcome that. I welcome the yelling.
Speaker 1: But they're they're they're a big company we we like,
Speaker 1: and they're very influential as it turns out. So my
Speaker 1: next prediction was that the next versions of iOS and
Speaker 1: mac os will be similar to one another, but the
Speaker 1: two would not yet merge into us thele operating system
Speaker 1: across multiple platforms, because you know, we're seeing this sort
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite words in the world, convergence
Speaker 1: between the energy synergy scissor g wait, know that's something else.
Speaker 1: So we're seeing, uh, we're not seeing the plants come
Speaker 1: into alignment, but we are seeing these operating systems get
Speaker 1: closer and closer to one another, so that you have
Speaker 1: kind of a smooth transition across multiple platforms, so that
Speaker 1: if you're using an Apple phone and then you switch
Speaker 1: over to an Apple laptop or an Apple desktop, that
Speaker 1: that transition is fairly seamless. It's not to the point
Speaker 1: where the operating systems are identical. And I said that
Speaker 1: that was not going to happen this year, and I
Speaker 1: was right. But I think I think that you might
Speaker 1: have overstated how similar at the next Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they got as similar as in my
Speaker 1: mind they were more similar. They were going to be
Speaker 1: more similar than they've turned out to be. I think
Speaker 1: that you were basing this on on the Windows eight model,
Speaker 1: And I think that part of part of why it
Speaker 1: didn't happen is that Apple looked at how Windows eight
Speaker 1: performed and you and I think Apple may have come
Speaker 1: to a conclusion that it's just two different is two
Speaker 1: separate sets of things that you need to be able
Speaker 1: to do with these different types of hardware, and therefore
Speaker 1: there's no need to make it the same thing, whereas
Speaker 1: Microsoft doesn't seem to follow that. Microsoft's like, no, we
Speaker 1: want the same approach for everything. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those arguments that keeps getting battered around. It's
Speaker 1: not saying that one is obviously better than the other.
Speaker 1: It all depends on the implementation as well. So if
Speaker 1: you make crappy OS and that's not going to help you,
Speaker 1: whether whether you make a CRAPOS for your mobile handset
Speaker 1: or for the desktop. Sure, something about the OS that
Speaker 1: we could not have in any way predicted well two things.
Speaker 1: My favorite is the naming departures. Right that the naming
Speaker 1: departure was a big one. The latest one is not
Speaker 1: named after a kittie cat. It is big big cats.
Speaker 1: I think that most I was really think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be mac os ten Snuggles. It was just gonna be
Speaker 1: They're just gonna go with names that would be cute
Speaker 1: for kittens. I guess Mavericks could be the name of
Speaker 1: a cute kitten. I guess, so yeah, mac Os ten
Speaker 1: Mavericks is the that's the name. And also it was
Speaker 1: a free upgrade. You didn't have to pay for it.
Speaker 1: That was that was what really shocked me. I mean,
Speaker 1: depart despite the the first shock of it not being
Speaker 1: named after a big cat. So yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: free upgrade and you could run more and more iOS
Speaker 1: apps on that operating system. So that's a little bit
Speaker 1: like what I said, but it's not exactly what I
Speaker 1: had envisioned. So yeah, according to this, I get a
Speaker 1: tiny model of Cathulhu which I can find sitting on
Speaker 1: my desk. Actually, that's totally true. That's why I've got it.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that this list was made by Roberts.
Speaker 1: So all right, well, I mean that's the squid ish,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's go back to you. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I predicted that the new consoles would not have impressive
Speaker 1: sales initially, um, and that the Xbox One would out
Speaker 1: sell the past four like like crazy pants party time. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: to be fair, it's still early because we are recording this,
Speaker 1: by the way, in early December, which that means that
Speaker 1: the holiday shopping is still in full swing. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're you're being You're being too kind, because both the
Speaker 1: PS four and the Xbox one sold a million consoles
Speaker 1: in twenty four hours. They did it under different conditions though,
Speaker 1: which actually doesn't help you. It doesn't help my case, yeah,
Speaker 1: because the PS four sold a million consoles and was
Speaker 1: only offered in two countries initially, and Xbox One was
Speaker 1: offered in thirteen, so it was a different playing field
Speaker 1: for both of them. Sony has reported selling two point
Speaker 1: one million of these consoles. Microsoft hasn't said how many
Speaker 1: it's sold, just that it's unprecedented. So yeah, well, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you sold more Xbox ones than you've ever
Speaker 1: sold Xbox ones in the past, considering that you just
Speaker 1: started selling Xbox ones. I think that unprecedented is a
Speaker 1: terrific corporate speech for for for look to pay no
Speaker 1: attention to this man behind the curtain. Yeah, but anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it does like the sales have gone really well.
Speaker 1: And the one thing that someone pointed out I thought
Speaker 1: this was really interesting, is that you cannot really compare
Speaker 1: the sales of these this new generation to previous generations,
Speaker 1: because in previous generations, one of the issues was that
Speaker 1: the supply was never enough to meet the initial demand.
Speaker 1: So you had Sony selling out a p S three
Speaker 1: and Xbox selling out of Xbox three sixty shortages and stores,
Speaker 1: and that that kind of colors are perception of how
Speaker 1: popular these things are because you couldn't get them anywhere.
Speaker 1: We was the same way. Yeah, yeah, although there's there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of that going on now. I checked
Speaker 1: on on Amazon today and you can currently purchase neither
Speaker 1: the PS four North the Xbox One just put an
Speaker 1: order in weight, So yeah, I mean we we are
Speaker 1: recording this on December five, which is, you know, the
Speaker 1: week after Thanksgiving, so that might have something to do
Speaker 1: with it. Probably had a little to do with it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, they have sold pretty well. We don't know
Speaker 1: yet which one is going to win out. It looks
Speaker 1: like the PS four is doing really really well initially,
Speaker 1: but personally, for this is just my own personal perspective,
Speaker 1: neither console right now has a game that I really
Speaker 1: want to play on it, Like, neither of them have
Speaker 1: a killer game where I'm like, I have got to
Speaker 1: get this console so I can play that game. I
Speaker 1: think that I think the developers are very smartly holding
Speaker 1: off on on the finalization of games that they know
Speaker 1: aren't ready to be finalized yet. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's just a wonderful, gorgeous thing that we have on
Speaker 1: this modern um console platforms where where you know it,
Speaker 1: it's letting game designers actually design the games that they
Speaker 1: want to and not not pushing something to go out early.
Speaker 1: Is we are living in the future, my friend. Any
Speaker 1: any time, any time you have ever had a an
Speaker 1: experience of playing a game that obviously had not been finished,
Speaker 1: it is one of the most frustrating experiences, particularly if
Speaker 1: you were going into it expecting a great game. So
Speaker 1: I agree, I think it's a better thing. So uh,
Speaker 1: I'm personally gonna I have not order it either. Uh disclosure.
Speaker 1: I expect that I will be buying one of these
Speaker 1: consoles probably within the next twelve months. And I'm right
Speaker 1: now just based on features, not based on games. I
Speaker 1: am leaning towards the Xbox Yeah. And here here's why.
Speaker 1: I think the PlayStation is going to have some amazing
Speaker 1: independent games on it, and I want to be able
Speaker 1: to play those, and that would be like if you're
Speaker 1: talking about just games, that lets me lean towards the
Speaker 1: PS four. But the Xbox One has some really cool
Speaker 1: uh voice activation features in it and some Connect features
Speaker 1: that originally I don't think the Connect was fully ready
Speaker 1: for prime time when it came out, But them the
Speaker 1: implementation I'm hearing from the Xbox One sounds much more
Speaker 1: promising to me. It sounds completely creepy to me, but
Speaker 1: also very promising. I mean, I mean, I'm blown away
Speaker 1: by the capacity that they're talking about. A yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's enough talking about that. But anyway, according
Speaker 1: to this, you get a gumball that has melted into
Speaker 1: the shape of a squid. You get a lot of candy. Lauren,
Speaker 1: you guess sweet tooth that's um I do, but I
Speaker 1: that's it's someone trying to poison this podcast with my
Speaker 1: sugar rash. I have no idea. I mean, it's you know,
Speaker 1: I I can't make heads or tails out of any
Speaker 1: of this, mostly because squid don't have tails. I wonder
Speaker 1: if this has to do with those teeth. Okay, So
Speaker 1: my next prediction said that Intel will struggle due to
Speaker 1: customers moving more towards mobile platforms. This is related to
Speaker 1: my first prediction. Obviously, UM and Until's certainly had kind
Speaker 1: of a rough year. They tried a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: They actually created a web based television platform called on q,
Speaker 1: but on Que never really took off, an according to
Speaker 1: c Net, Intel's looking to offload the product now trying
Speaker 1: to sell it off yeah. Um. They were also starting
Speaker 1: to focus more on enterprise customers, meaning other companies, which,
Speaker 1: you know, similar to what IBM had done in the past,
Speaker 1: where IBM was like, you know what, maybe we want
Speaker 1: to get out of the consumer market and just market
Speaker 1: to other companies as well, because those are the customers
Speaker 1: that tend to have a stable need for performance PCs.
Speaker 1: So even if your consumers get a little flaky in
Speaker 1: they're like, I think I just want to have something
Speaker 1: I could play, you know, Candy Crush on that's the game, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I keep getting a request for something called that I
Speaker 1: haven't played Canny Crush Slaga. I don't know anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: Holly can talk to us about that. Not necessary for
Speaker 1: you to have an Intel machine to play that game, apparently,
Speaker 1: uh no. Um. And And also, like like we said earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, PC performances generally dropping. Yeah, so until you know,
Speaker 1: that's their main market. They they've tried to get into
Speaker 1: the mobile market, but it hasn't been nearly as successful.
Speaker 1: Some of their competitors. However, they have started to develop
Speaker 1: some interesting chips that should work with Internet of things
Speaker 1: style sensors. So it may be that we see until
Speaker 1: bounce back in an emerging industry that is still you know,
Speaker 1: just picking up speed. M'd be great to see. And yeah,
Speaker 1: despite all of this, there's relatively even new was on
Speaker 1: the on the overall, Yeah, until Q three earnings in
Speaker 1: were pretty much the same as it's Q three earnings
Speaker 1: in twelve, so it didn't lose ground, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: gaining ground either. And you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: any of you work for big companies, but usually the
Speaker 1: rule of thumb is that they want growth year over year.
Speaker 1: It's not just it's not just profit, it's growth, right
Speaker 1: because profit is profit is number one. You want, you
Speaker 1: want to make more money than you spend, but you
Speaker 1: want to make more and more money. Yes before yeah,
Speaker 1: the previous year, like, yeah, we made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to figure out how we're going to
Speaker 1: make more than that next year. And you know it's
Speaker 1: I don't know, I find it exhausting. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those executives who has to make
Speaker 1: those kind of decisions. Yeah, so, so I think I
Speaker 1: think that that prediction was pretty accurate. Yeah yeah, according
Speaker 1: to this, I get an animated gift of a squid juggling.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cute. Okay, alright, your turn. My next one
Speaker 1: was going back to Apple. Um I I boldly stated
Speaker 1: that Apple was going to this would be the year
Speaker 1: that they would make a TV. This was the Crisp
Speaker 1: Pallette suggestion. This was the Crisp Palette prediction because Chris.
Speaker 1: If you guys are longtime listeners to tech stuff, you
Speaker 1: probably realize that Chris made this prediction I think in
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven and two thousand twelves. So Lauren was
Speaker 1: carrying on the text stuff tradition and rumors, you know,
Speaker 1: rumors from from mac rumors dot com say that that
Speaker 1: we could we could totally expect one in yeah, the
Speaker 1: earliest sixteen. Um So, I think that this rumor tradition
Speaker 1: continues on. We'll find out if one of us predicts
Speaker 1: that will really be the year. Really, my only note
Speaker 1: for this one is just f That's all I had
Speaker 1: to say. Get an Apple that's got a little squid
Speaker 1: in it. I don't want. That's squid can't live in apples.
Speaker 1: I'm very concernous. It's because your prediction was so awful, Lauren,
Speaker 1: You've got a dead squid in an apple. Sorry, that's
Speaker 1: the way it works, all right. So I have an
Speaker 1: electronic public sing will completely overtake traditional publishing in sales. Uh, Nope. Trends.
Speaker 1: Trends at the end of two thousand twelve made it
Speaker 1: look that way. But again, this is where that deceptive
Speaker 1: number comes in, right, where you have a relatively small
Speaker 1: number increasing, that means the percentage of increase is huge.
Speaker 1: But eventually those numbers get bigger and that percentage starts
Speaker 1: to shrink because it starts to reflect that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe in reality, this isn't This isn't growth industry, right.
Speaker 1: It is similar to tablets. It's they're kind of evening out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we started to see it. I mean, seriously, plateau it
Speaker 1: started plateau ing big time in twelve, and really plateau
Speaker 1: in That doesn't mean that there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: of e publishing going on or electronic books sales. There are,
Speaker 1: but it is not. It has not overtaken traditional publishing.
Speaker 1: Um Amazon reports that sales of its e readers have
Speaker 1: hit record numbers. That's not a big surprise, but traditional
Speaker 1: books are still sold more than e books in the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things. And according to some reports, a
Speaker 1: couple of different sectors of publishing of physical books actually
Speaker 1: went up at a couple of points during the years. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this one was a total mess on my part.
Speaker 1: And this one apparently I get a book about squids
Speaker 1: where every page that had the name words squid on
Speaker 1: it has been ripped out. There are there's a dedication
Speaker 1: page and a copyright page left. Okay, all right, Lauren,
Speaker 1: your turn. My next prediction was that this would be
Speaker 1: a record year for people going out and getting their
Speaker 1: their genes sequenced. Um and that there would also be
Speaker 1: a big move to digital health records UM and this
Speaker 1: interesting news on this one. All right, so yeah, this
Speaker 1: this was so so basically I could not have predicted
Speaker 1: that here in the US anyway, that the whole Affordable
Speaker 1: Care Act could could have been as much of a
Speaker 1: mess as it really was caused, as much of a
Speaker 1: mess in the industry. Um. And And again I was
Speaker 1: being pretty optimistic about stuff. You think that overall, you know,
Speaker 1: the trends are are looking good for both of those
Speaker 1: things right, but just this specifics are some rough parts,
Speaker 1: not the year that they were really implemented to be fair,
Speaker 1: uh twenty three and me which was a leading company
Speaker 1: that this genetic sequencing here in the US, had more
Speaker 1: than four hundred thousand customers, which shows that this was
Speaker 1: a record year. That's one of the things you said
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a record year. That was true,
Speaker 1: But then the US Food and Drug Administration kind of
Speaker 1: uh put the brakes. And the thing is that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of legislature that hasn't really caught up to
Speaker 1: this technology yet. Because okay, so so the first human
Speaker 1: gene sequencing UM took like fifteen years and three billion
Speaker 1: dollars UM. We're at a point right now where we
Speaker 1: can do it in a few days for three thousand UM,
Speaker 1: which is incredible and amazing, and there's a push to
Speaker 1: get it even lower and that's wonderful and magical. However,
Speaker 1: legislature is still going like so, if you're recommending these
Speaker 1: this genetic sequencing as medical advice, UM, that falls under
Speaker 1: our purview and we need to regulate that, and that
Speaker 1: means that every single gene you're testing has to be
Speaker 1: has to be approved through us, and there's an expensive
Speaker 1: process for that, which means that it turns any kind
Speaker 1: of consumer level genetic sequencing completely impractical. Right. And furthermore,
Speaker 1: it's like we've talked about in our genetics episodes, genes
Speaker 1: are tricky things. They do, they do more than one
Speaker 1: thing at once, and it's really difficult to label one
Speaker 1: in many cases as being like this gene causes that thing.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, the the FDA has a
Speaker 1: couple of of arguments that I think are pretty valuable,
Speaker 1: things like, you know, you don't want to give people
Speaker 1: a message that will end up having the mishandle their
Speaker 1: medication therefore suffer some sort of toxic effects because they
Speaker 1: and it may not even be the direct fault of
Speaker 1: the genetic sequencing company. It may be that the consumer
Speaker 1: is misinterpreting the results. The point that the FDA was
Speaker 1: making is that this is something that that a a
Speaker 1: medical professional needs to handle and be able to communicate
Speaker 1: to the person so that they can make use of
Speaker 1: that information. It's too much information without enough expertise. So
Speaker 1: but but still was a record year. It was just
Speaker 1: one of those things where the law began to try
Speaker 1: and catch up to the technology. So I think he
Speaker 1: got I think you'd get at least a half point
Speaker 1: on that. And what what what does that equal out
Speaker 1: to in squid? Squid with five tentacles, Yes, squire with
Speaker 1: five tentacles. We call him Lefty. Yeah, they're all the
Speaker 1: left tentacle. I don't know how that works personally, I
Speaker 1: don't get us. I mean whatever, I'm the same. You
Speaker 1: can name him George. Alright. So my next one was
Speaker 1: that Zinga, the Zinga Board of directors, would attempt to
Speaker 1: purchase the company back and turn it into a private corporation. Now,
Speaker 1: this was based on some rumors that were circulating at
Speaker 1: the end of two thousand twelve. Mark Pinkas, who was
Speaker 1: the former CEO of Zinga, was rumored to be talking
Speaker 1: about it. He had hinted at the prospect of getting
Speaker 1: the board directors to buy up enough shares of Zinga
Speaker 1: to make it go back into being a private company
Speaker 1: and said that a lot of the problems of the
Speaker 1: company were due to shareholder expectations and requirements, and that
Speaker 1: if it were a private company could operate however it
Speaker 1: needed to in order to make to to do business.
Speaker 1: H Zinga, of course, is the game company that's behind
Speaker 1: a bunch of those social media games that were really
Speaker 1: popular on things like Facebook, from things like World Words
Speaker 1: with Friends to Farmville and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So Zinga UM did not try and purchase the the
Speaker 1: the shares back to become a private company. That did
Speaker 1: not happen. What did happen was that instead Mark Pinkas
Speaker 1: essentially fired himself and then hired Don Matric as the
Speaker 1: new CEO. If you're not familiar with Matric, he was
Speaker 1: the former head of Microsoft's Xbox to In fact, news
Speaker 1: broke today that one of Matrix uh moves in the
Speaker 1: Xbox division has been undone. He established a an Xbox
Speaker 1: division in London called Xbox Victoria, and that has just
Speaker 1: been shut down, so all the all the developers in
Speaker 1: that particular office are now looking for work. UM and
Speaker 1: what he did over at Zingo was basically clean house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he fired a whole bunch of people, UH and started
Speaker 1: to restructure the company. So it's remained publicly traded, but
Speaker 1: it is a very different organization now. However, because I
Speaker 1: said that as the Zinga board would attempt to purchase
Speaker 1: the company back, technically my prediction was wrong, and UH
Speaker 1: I get an octopus wearing a squid costume. So there's
Speaker 1: these two extremely fake tentacles hanging down from it. I
Speaker 1: don't know that sounds I would watch an Internet video
Speaker 1: about that. An octopus posing as a squid. I bet
Speaker 1: there's a whole cartoon series speaking if if not. I
Speaker 1: want one of you guys more than I can even express.
Speaker 1: I might. I might really enjoy cephalopods, And I think
Speaker 1: that someone should make that happen. Um. I think. I
Speaker 1: think Erin's got a new job to do. Um. We
Speaker 1: we love you, photoshoppers. My next prediction had to do
Speaker 1: with the Internet. Uh, it was. It was a non prediction, really,
Speaker 1: I said that nothing of note would happen with HTML five. Yeah.
Speaker 1: HTML five, of course, is supposed to be the big
Speaker 1: replacement for HTML four, which is what a lot of
Speaker 1: the webs based on a lot of sites have made
Speaker 1: the move over to HTML five. But as it turns out,
Speaker 1: it's had some problems. Like it it just it's not
Speaker 1: working quite to the level that we were expecting. Like
Speaker 1: it was supposed to replace a lot of the need
Speaker 1: for all those plug ins that h t m L
Speaker 1: four requires if you want to have a rich web experience. Right, So,
Speaker 1: like anything like a flash player, you have to have
Speaker 1: Flash installed for you to be able to watch that.
Speaker 1: And the idea is that with HTML five all those
Speaker 1: kind of features would be natively supportive, I think, would
Speaker 1: be integrated to so you wouldn't have a single app crashing.
Speaker 1: But as it turns out, just just the whole code
Speaker 1: is not really coming together. Um. And so you know,
Speaker 1: similar to what we were talking about with Windows eight.
Speaker 1: You know, just people aren't willing to adopt something if
Speaker 1: they don't know it's going to work. Right. A lot
Speaker 1: of developers who are making apps do not have not
Speaker 1: been making apps for HTML five because they just felt
Speaker 1: that it wasn't doing what they needed it to do,
Speaker 1: Like the results they were getting were not satisfactory, So
Speaker 1: they had to go back to developing apps for older
Speaker 1: legacy style platforms like Flash because if they tried at
Speaker 1: for HTML five, it just wasn't doing what they needed.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a smooth transition. Yeah. So I was on
Speaker 1: the money for this one. Yeah. So you get a
Speaker 1: squid smoothie, it's extra smooth. Oh it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: made of squid. It was made by a squid. Oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: that's great on this little uh that's a little card
Speaker 1: that came with it. I think it's important to support
Speaker 1: our squid employees. Yes, um, high ten. I guess because
Speaker 1: they've they've got tent tentacles. I think two of them
Speaker 1: are technically arms. Are they have you armed your squid? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm moving on before I get shot by a squid.
Speaker 1: I've got two more. That was the rat last of Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I think I think this next one, what we should
Speaker 1: do is just come up with a specific number of
Speaker 1: predictions will each make and that way it will even
Speaker 1: out for next year. Because I've never done that, and
Speaker 1: you would think that after like five years of predictions,
Speaker 1: I would have said, hey, let's each make five, and
Speaker 1: you would think but anyway, And my next one is
Speaker 1: that manufacturers will attempt to build and market devices specifically
Speaker 1: to serve as a second screen. I'm right for the
Speaker 1: wrong reason I was when I said this. What I
Speaker 1: was thinking was that a company would make something like
Speaker 1: a mobile handheld device like a tablet or a smartphone
Speaker 1: or something along those lines, and specifically say this is
Speaker 1: so that you can see more information as you watch
Speaker 1: stuff that's on your TV. So in other words, the
Speaker 1: second screen part would literally be the second screen, right.
Speaker 1: That would be the entire purpose empt the device, right.
Speaker 1: And as it turns out, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: second screen devices that have entered the market, things like
Speaker 1: Google Chrome Cast or the net Gear has the push
Speaker 1: to TV set, and there are a lot of other
Speaker 1: ones too. They're designed to stream content from your computer
Speaker 1: to the television, So you have a second screen in
Speaker 1: the sense that the TV becomes your second screen, that
Speaker 1: becomes your display, and then you can use your computer
Speaker 1: to do whatever else you want to do. But that's
Speaker 1: not how I envisioned it. So it's interesting that what
Speaker 1: I had predicted came to pass, but in a totally
Speaker 1: different implementation than what I expected. And apparently I get
Speaker 1: a I get an insight out squid. Oh man, oh
Speaker 1: that is all over that keyboard. Well, luckily I've already
Speaker 1: scrolled down to the bottom here. Okay, I said, we'll
Speaker 1: see the peak and then decline of crowdfunding in two
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen as people get burned out on it. Um.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, guys, Reliable sticks, statistics and funding just
Speaker 1: don't exist. I can't find a truly reliable, unbiased source
Speaker 1: every source I could find was one that was like
Speaker 1: this brought to you by crowdfunding, Like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you you have a clear conflict of interest in this. However,
Speaker 1: just based on what I've personally observed, it does not
Speaker 1: look like this is slowing down at all. No, No,
Speaker 1: I think that. You know, of course, there's still some
Speaker 1: projects that don't get funded, and I think that some
Speaker 1: people are in fact getting getting burnt out on spending
Speaker 1: all of the money on every single new project that
Speaker 1: comes up. But I'd say that, if anything, there are
Speaker 1: more more awesome projects out there than there were. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean for me, like all the evidence is anecdotal.
Speaker 1: But that being said, I have certainly supported more campaigns
Speaker 1: crowdfunding campaigns this year than I have ever done before.
Speaker 1: I essentially about about once every couple of months have
Speaker 1: to tell myself to get off of the internet before
Speaker 1: I spend all of my money on all my money
Speaker 1: on kickstarter art. Yeah. So apparently, according to since I
Speaker 1: got that one totally wrong, I don't get a squid,
Speaker 1: I get a quid. So I get a squid without
Speaker 1: the s which is one pound sterling, but I'm taxed
Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, alright, Well, I guess I'm not as
Speaker 1: gross as the inside out thing. No, but I guess
Speaker 1: I deserve being taxed for such a wrong prediction. Well,
Speaker 1: there we go. That wraps up our predictions round up
Speaker 1: and how things turned out. So I guess we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to somehow carry all these squid back to our desks.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll just leave them here for stuff to blow
Speaker 1: your mind. They'll be coming in here before too long.
Speaker 1: Squid party, squid party. Um yeah, I'm gonna take my
Speaker 1: quid though, I gotta have this English pound, all right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that wraps it up. I think it was
Speaker 1: a kind of fun one. We're gonna try and see
Speaker 1: what sort of crazy predictions will come up. I think
Speaker 1: we will try and limit it to maybe five predictions
Speaker 1: per person, with maybe a couple of extra just in
Speaker 1: case one of us predicts the same thing as the
Speaker 1: other one. So that way we've got some wiggle room,
Speaker 1: but nothing on the lines of what we've done this time.
Speaker 1: Because this is just ridiculous, people, I mean, I can
Speaker 1: only be so wrong for so long. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: this is I mean, I mean, no matter what the
Speaker 1: system is of ranking next year, I clearly have way
Speaker 1: too many squid at this point, well, I'm sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: there there's one thing that's consistent with our predictions episode,
Speaker 1: which is that the scoring is completely inconsistent. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't worry too much because by next year I will
Speaker 1: completely forgotten about the squid thing, so it'll be some
Speaker 1: other ridiculous level of of of grading. So anyway, guys,
Speaker 1: if you have any predictions for two thousand and fourteen,
Speaker 1: Lauren and I will be making those very soon, so
Speaker 1: you'll you'll hear that episode before the end of the
Speaker 1: year probably or if not at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: at the very beginning of next year. Um, if you
Speaker 1: have any predictions that you want to make, we can
Speaker 1: even have a small section set aside for listener predictions. Alright, listeners,
Speaker 1: if you have a prediction for two thousand fourteen, something
Speaker 1: that you believe is going to happen in the year
Speaker 1: and it's related to tech, let us know. It could
Speaker 1: be a conservative guest, it can be a wild estimate.
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Speaker 1: And I predict that Lauren and I will talk to
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