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Wozniak's Predictions For 2013: the Data Center, Mobility and Beyond
Nerval's Lobster writes "Tech icon Steve Wozniak has come forward with several predictions for 2013, with data center technologies an important part of the list. Wozniak's predictions are based on a series of conversations he had recently with Brett Shockley, senior vice president and general manager of applications and emerging technologies at Avaya. They trace an arc from the consumer space up through the enterprise, with an interesting take on the BYOD phenomenon: Woz believes that mobile devices will eventually become the 'remote controls,' so to speak, of the world. Although he's most famous as the co-founder of Apple, Wozniak currently serves as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a manufacturer of enterprise flash storage for data centers and other devices."
First IBM's predictions, now Woz's. Arent you suppost to get the crysal balls out after Christmas?
BTW, there's little if any in TFA that isn't in TFS. Very short FA that can be boiled down to "data center."
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More Law Suits ahead. That's my prediction.
-- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
1. Apple will release a slightly updated version of the iPad and iPhone and they're consumers will eat it up, though to a lesser extent than in the past.
2. Rumors of Microsoft releasing Windows 9 ahead of expected schedule, due to tepid Windows 8 take up.
3. Facebook will further adjust their usury policies to increase revenues from the product of its users.
4. A new website/service will be announced and people will react like it is the second coming, for about two months before it fades to black.
5. U.S. taxes will increase significantly for all and the government will begin issuing near abusive regulatory edits.
Chief scientist at company that supplies data centres predicts rise in data centres.
That in the next two weeks there will be hundreds of inept predictions, wishful thinking, and a couple of accurate predictions.
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
I think Woz did more for Apple than Jobs. Yes, Jobs could code and such but he generally was better at making things pretty and usable in terms of vision...Woz did the heavy lifting.
nuff said...
Just give me X11 on android with multitouch xinput support.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
They trace an arc from the consumer space up through the enterprise,...
"Consumer Space"?
Marketing lingo du jour; which means it's a waste of time .
No one knows what's going to happen. It may be the same old same old in '13 or someone comes up with something that takes off that none of the "smart" guys saw coming.
Here you go, although he shuts down the Android stack on his device I believe you could use the same method while running linux on Android using this package. I haven't tried running X yet but I do run Debian on my phone, I got tired of the crappy tools on the stock Android cli.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
an interesting take on the BYOD phenomenon
I have noticed the death of the PBX. The desk phones are now nearly unused at the megacorp I work at. If you know someone you use their personal cell phone number, and if you don't know them you need the CYA audit trail that only email can provide. So the desk phones get dusty.
They have actually started ripping out the phones here. We'll probably always have them for queue, call center, help desk, help line type situations but the day of every drone having a phone are already over where I work.
Rather than being issued a laptop to work at home, my wife was issued rdesktop credentials to use as she saw fit, and had borrowing privileges at the travel laptop pool when she travels. Where I work they still use clunky as heck VPNs but I'm sure they'll catch up with the times and switch to a rdesktop/vnc solution sooner or later.
IT no longer creates new "client server apps" they create "intranet sites" and how you access them is pretty much seen as your responsibility.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
I was with you when I read #1.. then you went out on a limb and started guessing with 2-5. Here's a real prediction: at the end of 2013, things will be mostly the same as they are now. Yes, there will be some minor changes to the world -- but lets get real: it's 12 months.
We are here partly due to the mass exodus away from 'ivory tower' client/server systems that started back in the 80s due people like Woz, but now we are running as fast as we can back to it.. With people like Woz riding shotgun with us..
Not that its a bad thing, as there are advantages to taking the user out of the 'systems management' part of the equation and handing it back over to the professionals.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
6. People will continuously make the same annoying mistakes with their words using "they're" when they clearly should have used "their".
Between centralized and satellite computing over the decades. Cloud based services are swinging toward centralization again.
From Woz's blog: "Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design, but he was technical enough to alter and change and add to other designs. I did all of the Apple I and Apple ][ myself, including the feature choices. I did all of the BASIC myself (it's in handwriting as I couldn't afford an assembler). The only person who helped write some of the Apple ][ code was Allen Baum, who helped with the 'monitor' program."
So here's my predictions for 2013:
1) Facebook is going to see it's user base decline. I suspect that many of the current accounts are fake, throwaway type accounts anyway. Full of fake birth dates, occupations and other such information attached to fake throwaway email accounts used for nothing other than signing up for Facebook. Sooner or later advertisers are going to catch on to this and stop wasting their time. Besides, Facebook is pissing everyone off with their intrusive privacy policies.
2) Tablets are going to become the new net books. In other words, cute and portable but ultimately not very useful. Just another expensive toy for bored, rich westerners.
3) Windows 8 is going to be a massive flop. Sure, the sales numbers will look good because it comes preinstalled on new PC's but user adoption will be poor. Windows 9 is going to look a lot like Windows 7.
4) HP is going to clean house. So long Meg.
5) SAAS (Software As A Service) is going to fizzle out. Salesforce will continue to do well though. Some things work well in a hosted environment (CRM for example), others not so well. Multi tenant architectures can save you money in the beginning but there are a lot of real limitations. You are sharing a database with other customers. You can't customize the software. Enterprise software will move back in house.
6) No contract phones will be the way to go. Smartphones are pretty much maxed out on features now. Why get a new one? Take your off contract phone to a no contract provider and start saving some serious money.
7) Factory in-car navigation systems will become obsolete. Too expensive to begin with and you have to update the maps (and pay again for that) every few years. Why bother when you've got Google maps on your phone for free? Simllarly, touch screen control centers in cars are going to go back to old fashioned knobs and dials. Touch screens are too distracting to use and difficult to see in direct sunlight. Maybe voice activation would be better - "Turn on the AC - 72 degrees".
8) The instant gas prices go back down below $2.50/gallon Americans are going to flock back to big hulking SUV's.
Prediction is very hard, especially about the future/quote?
Yogi Berra
It will take time, but as homes move off the grid (perhaps Sandy is a motivation) and move to alt energy and affect power demand from utilities, so will data centers evolve to decentralized infrastructure.
lawyers start losing heads....
Is this the same Woz who was a buy on Facebook at any price?
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Crestron DM system and AppleTV's allow my corporate clients to "throw" content to a display. You just have to be an apple ecosystem to do it. Mostly because Microsoft cant figure it out.
I know a LOT of clients that would kill for a Microsoft version of airplay. but it does not exist and will not exist for some time. (anything that requires a driver to be installed is already a fail. Airplay works without any driver installation)
If the It department were to hire real AV consultants that install real AV gear like the Crestron DM or Extron/Kramer systems that are like it along with embracing the current tech and working with it instead of against it, they can have it today.
And yes, I can get Apple TV (Last customer has over 240 of them across the business campus) to work in a corporate environment. It's not that hard if you have competent network admins and engineers.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
If I remember correctly Jobs was the one with the vision of the future not Woz.
Unfortunately I have a tegra not omap. Still some work to be done for a native install on my tablet. I would however much prefer a working X11 server under android with full acceleration and multi-touch, nothing quite there yet.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
You should look at his latest adventure - Fusion-io. If you don't know them now, you will soon. They've been hiring the principle developers of BTRFS and the Linux Block-io head guru. Super-accelerated big-data flash storage is what they are into. Cutting edge stuff.
At Gamedev.net someone also just started a discussion Predictions About the Future of Gaming .
Technically it's bad practice to use words like "here" and "this" as hyperlink texts. It makes the text harder to read and the user has to hover over the link to see what it is about. Even worse if the page is printed. Instead, please bake them to the normal text so that their context is understandable even without the hyperlinks.
He forgot that 2013 is the year of the Linux desktop.
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2. Rumors of Microsoft releasing Windows 9 ahead of expected schedule, due to tepid Windows 8 take up.
It will implement an innovative new Start button!