I’ve never done this before, but then I’ve never had something like offbe.at before either…well I guess I had dougworld.com, but that was much less fluid. Anyways, without further ado and in no particular order here are my 2007 predictions…
- Housing market will continue to decline with flat sales and declining values. In other words, we did not hit bottom in 2006.
- Foreclosures will be at record highs
- We will see a recession
- Oil will hit $80+ a barrel
- The stock market will tank early in the year
- The Fed will cut interest rates
- A major terrorist attack will occur in US
- Apple with release a true video iPod with underwhelming features, but it will be cool and sell well.
- The iPod will be truly challenged by other media players
- Microsoft will support PlaysForSure on the Zune
- Steve Jobs will be forced to step down (a terrible thing!)
- Britney Spears will release a new and successful CD and restart her career
- Podcasting will become mainstream.
- Subscription music services will take off. (As opposed to iTunes buy-songs model)
- Downloadable/on-demand TV shows and movies will be “normal” and expected by consumers
- DVD and CD sales will show weakness and the latter may decline
- Neither Blue Ray nor HD-DVD will gain traction
- FCC will be forced to delay NTSC expiration dates (again)
- Tube-based computer monitors and TVs will all but disappear at stores
- You Tube will flourish
- MySpace popularity will decline.
- Google will consolidate all of their tools (word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, search, rss reader, store, YouTube, etc.) into a mainstream-accessible interface.
- Internet sales tax legislation will not be passed (again)
- I will buy a new MP3 player
- PS3 will be a flop.
- XBOX 360 will flourish and a new version with built-in HD-DVD will be released
- Intel will continue to dominate x86 CPU market. AMD will not catch up.
- Windows Vista will meet with great initial resistance, but slowly gain momentum
- The Lakers will make it to the conference finals.
- I will get off my fat a$$ and start working out. (This won’t be very hard since I do nothing now ;-)
- My daughter’s grades will show improvement
- My wife’s career will blossom
- My hearing and eyesight will continue to decline (C’mon I gotta have at least one slamdunk!)