half year update: how are my predictions so far?

Back in Feb, I published a list of tech-related predictions for 2015. How’m I doing? Let’s see ones that have happened (or are very close to have happened): Itanium OEL’d HP spinning-off business units – sorta, they’re splitting in half IBM is losing value … but not as much as I predicted (yet) cloud is …
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seems i’m not the only one who thinks apple could make cars

Dallas News ran a story recently on Apple being positioned to be a car maker. Their reasoning: Cash (~$180B) It’s “ultimately” mobile They have “car guys” already Strong retail network They’re already global I think it more likely they’d buy an existing manufacturer, and then Apple-ify them – but the arguments are strong that an …
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my tech predictions for 2015

I put these up as a comment on Cringely.com – but they deserve sharing here, too. In no particular order: – {{AIX}} EoL’d – {{HP-UX}} retired – {{Itanium}} EoL’d (perhaps on an accelerated schedule) – Solaris truly open-sourced / abandoned by {{Oracle}} in favor of OEL – HP spins-off more business units – IBM loses …
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bursts by albert-lászló barabási

{{Albert-László Barabási}}’s book “{{Bursts}}: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades” is fascinating. In the same overall genre as {{Malcolm Gladwell}}’s {{Outliers}} (review) – pop psychology and pop science – {{Bursts}} is a great read: bringing highly technical and dense topics to the masses in a manner that [apparently] …
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