{"id":2663,"date":"2015-09-09T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2015-09-09T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:11:01","slug":"half-year-update-how-are-my-predictions-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"half year update: how are my predictions so far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Feb, I published a <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2015\/02\/12\/my-tech-predictions-for-2015\">list of tech-related predictions<\/a> for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;m I doing?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see ones that have happened (or are very close to have happened):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/203750-server-woes-final-itanium-processor-will-be-32nm-amds-arm-servers-delayed-a-full-year\">Itanium<\/a> OEL&#8217;d<\/li>\n<li>HP spinning-off business units &#8211; sorta, they&#8217;re splitting in half<\/li>\n<li>IBM is <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/echarts?s=IBM+Interactive#{&quot;range&quot;:&quot;6mo&quot;,&quot;allowChartStacking&quot;:true}\">losing value<\/a> &#8230; but not as much as I predicted (yet)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/tag\/cloud\">cloud<\/a> is still &#8220;a thing&#8221; &#8211; but it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>gradually<\/em> becoming less of &#8220;a thing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>cloud hosting providers are in a price war &#8211; so I&#8217;ll count this as &#8220;kinda&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>{{iPad}} 5 &#8211; it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/09\/09\/apple-unveils-the-ipad-pro\">iPad Pro<\/a>, but has the expected resolution (5.6 megapixels)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m counting the {{iPad Pro}}, in conjunction with the keyboard accessory, the {{MacBook}} Flex &#8211; it&#8217;s not x86 (ARM A9X) .. but still {{iOS}}, not {{OS X}} &#8211; so I&#8217;m half right<\/li>\n<li>Tesla has the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.teslamotors.com\/models\/design\">Model S<\/a> in a non-millionaire price point ($57k at the bottom end) .. but it&#8217;s not down to the Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf yet :: then again, the Tesla gets substantially further on its charge than does the Volt or Leaf<\/li>\n<li>more cities are entering the &#8220;gigacity&#8221; club &#8211; Salisbury NC just opened\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/civsourceonline.com\/2015\/09\/04\/salisbury-n-c-becomes-first-10-gig-city-in-the-us\">10-gigabit club<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Feb, I published a list of tech-related predictions for 2015. How&#8217;m I doing? Let&#8217;s see ones that have happened (or are very close to have happened): Itanium OEL&#8217;d HP spinning-off business units &#8211; sorta, they&#8217;re splitting in half IBM is losing value &#8230; but not as much as I predicted (yet) cloud is &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2663\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">half year update: how are my predictions so far?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,46],"tags":[589],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-update","tag-prediction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}