I think there will be a lot of push for tablets this year though I might expect a lot of people to get them because they are trendy and maybe loose some interest in them after the novelty has worn off.
I predict the iPhone 5 will come out and iPad 2 and both will be heralded by Steve as the greatest thing ever. I predict that those who want to get work done will still favour Laptops or Desktops. I also think that the Oracle vs Android legal action will battle on. I expect ultimately Oracle will not win. I contradict what was said in the podcast and I believe that Oracle will not kiss and make up with the community but will still half want to be seen as community friendly while being jerks whenever it serves their purpose and only genuinely caring about their big corporate customers. I think that the Oracle culture is too entrenched. I predict more project will revolt against Oracle but Java will keep going because lots of people depend on it. The revolt against Oracle might have casualties in languages targeted to run on the VM. I predict that people will get Java 7 and may not be wholly satisfied but will get on with solving problems and doing their jobs because that is what people do. I predict coming innovations in Java will be bland, corporate and boring. I also predict that there will be a demise of plugin based browser technology in favour of HTML 5 which won't be standardised anytime soon. HTML 5 replacements for the Flash components will come out but won't actually be as slick or work as well as the plugin versions but we will be pushed to accept them because it is "The Future". This may look much like Web based application replacements of Desktop applications which aren't actually as good as the Desktop versions but are marketed as better just because they are web based. I predict a slight swing back to iOS dominance with the launch of the iPhone 5 and Android market share growth will level off and the proportional market share of the two will stabilise. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
