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Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod
93,000 writes "CNN is running an article featuring Gates' prediction that the iPod is on the way out. From the article: 'As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run.' His prediction for a successor? Mobile phones-- powered by none other than Windows Mobile 5.0, of course."
... in a related move, Sony announced today its complete confidence in the Betamax format. Film at 11.
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Person Y says technology by company X won't last.
Instead, person Y believes technology made by person Y's company will win long-term!
If history is a good guide, the future iPod will become a monitor.
Maybe someday it will have wireless *and* more space than a Nomad.
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Well, I am running 640k of RAM just fine, you insensitive clod!
It's like "Rock Paper Scissors"
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Has anyone ever done any reseach on how often Bill Gates has been right in his predictions?
I'm sure that at one time, he predicted that Microsoft would dominate the desktop computing market. It seems he made a few bucks off that, but hey, let's wait and see if it really catches on or it's just a fad.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Yah, swiss army knives are for losers.
Talk to any rabid Star Trek fan, and they'll probably start yapping about how the cellphone will eventually morph into the infamous tricorder ,... Then again, even in the Star Trek universe, the equivalent of the modern day cellphone, the Star Trek Communicator , is a separate device worn on the uniform and not in the tricorder.
This seems like the same caliber of prediction as saying no one needs more then 640k of ram. I'm going to take this as meaning the iPod will be around forever and Windows Mobile will flop.
My point is, you don't need a high percentage of "being right" to be very successful. Who cares how often his predictions come true? He's Bill Gates, not Nostradamus.
Being very successful gets you access to the media, regardless of how often you are right.
Gates is a very competitive guy, not unlike most successful businessmen.
What did you really expect him to say? ipods will win? cell phones running linux will win? Can you say shareholder lawsuit? Even if you can't, Millberg Weiss can.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Not surprised nothing's happened to you! And get off my damned lawn!!!!
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Microsoft?
I'm not familiar with the treo600 but that's the way it's going. First, phones/cameras, then phones/video, then phones/video/mp3, then phones/pda/video/mp3, then phones/pda/camera/video/mp3 then HAL.
Reminds me of my futon. Worst bed in the world, yet somehow it's even worse as a couch.
Actually, I'm banned after the last incident.....
rm -rf
When my camera brakes
What about when it accelerates?
-Fucking Tarded
I write "CNN is running an article featuring Jobs' prediction that the cell phone is on the way out. From the article: 'As good as mp3 cell phones may be, I don't believe their success is sustainable in the long run.' His prediction for a successor? iPod phones-- powered by none other than embeded Darwin, of course."
Would that be IBM?
and now look who's top dog.
Not Apple?
*ducks*
Don't hurt me! I use a Powerbook!
...and that's all there is to it.
five years ago [...] a woman came up to me
And you still haven't quite gotten over it, have you?
... if you think of it as a PDA with a built-in phone, which is how you should be looking at it, then there's nothing at all wrong with its size ...
And if you think of it as an anvil with a built-in phone, it's even better!
Regardless of whether the input is too small to be of use, I don't like putting a salad plate up to my ear. Too big.