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Ask Slashdot: What Tech Companies Won't Be Around In 10 Years?
An anonymous reader writes: It's interesting to look back a decade and see how the tech industry has changed. The mobile phone giants of 10 years ago have all struggled to compete with the smartphone newcomers. Meanwhile, the game console landscape is almost exactly the same. I'm sure few of us predicted Apple's rebirth over the past decade, and many of us thought Microsoft would have fallen a lot further by now. With that in mind, let's make some predictions. What companies aren't going to make it another 10 years? Are Facebook, Twitter, and the other social networking behemoths going to fade as quickly as they arose? What about the heralds of the so-called 'sharing economy,' like Uber? Are IBM and Oracle going to hang on? Along the same lines, what companies do you think will definitely stick around for another decade or more? Post your predictions for all to see. I'll buy you a beer in 10 years if you're right.
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Today's phone is more powerful than a computer was ten years ago. I can see a future where your "home computer" is just a docking station that you plug your phone/tablet into. Or, even better, you set your phone/tablet down on a table and the monitor, keyboard, and mouse auto-link to it and let you do work (or play games) using the keyboard/mouse/monitor all while your phone/tablet wirelessly charges.
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Yeah, right. They have 10 year support cycles on their products. By the time 10 years rolls around, they'll just be ending support for windows 8. In terms of sheer amount of machines...there are more machines running just windows xp right now than all of the apple products that have ever been sold since the company's founding.
Not agile enough? If that's your main qualification, most *nix systems should be dead and gone by now, and yet, somehow, we still have people running system V on old minicomputers.
Hate to be a pedant, but, original iMac didn't ship with firewire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
New connectors don't have to replace USB and be a jack of all trades connector. FireWire was the second best way to connect an external disk compared to e-sata or external scsi. It was also the best way to connect low latency audio devices.
I mean, it'd be nice if USB 4 lowers CPU overhead even more and makes extremely low latency devices possible.
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