Episode 883

The JaMoTo Analysts throw down a healthy serving of tech predictions for the new year. Are you ready to rumble?
==Tom Merritt==
*One mass media company will push out an Internet-only or Internet-primary hit (webisode).
*GPS will slowly disappear (except in-dash, Standalone GPS merge into phones).
*Some sort of big, public security breach that will cause the change of fundamental internet protocol.
*Android will outsell iPhone.
*Yahoo will finally be purchased in 2009.
*A mind control game peripheral will come out.
*Twitter will get as big as facebook.
*Google will buy a content company. (i.e. movie studio or broadcast studio)
*Bandwidth riots.
*DTV transition will go off without a hitch. (Mostly be fine)
*A real look of the next-gen console. (Prototype of next-gen console)
==Molly Wood==
*There would be no copy and paste for the iPhone in 2009.
*Molly will buy an Android phone by the end of the year. (Molly breaking up with the iPhone)
*Steve Jobs will leave Apple in 2009. (Leave his current role, like Bill Gates)
*The usefulness and price of netbooks will be severely compromised by features. (get more expensive and bigger)
*Yahoo files for bankruptcy after failing or refusing to do a deal that could save them in 2009 only.
*A major newspaper (‘’’LA Times’’’, NY Times, i.e. National newspaper) will go online. 
*Google will buy Twitter or Twitter dies.
*Significant number of Americans will dump cable for internet-only television. Cable company have to change pricing model.
*Symantec web will enable subscribing to any podcast in certain topic based on tagging.
*Alien life will be discovered on Venus.
==Jason Howell==
*Copy and paste will exist in the iPhone for 2009.
*A major Mac exploit (wide-spread virus etc.).
*Netbook sale will double in 2009.
*LHC will not go online in 2009. (i.e. the world will not end)
*iTunes will get an eBook section. Bonus: iPhone will get an eBook reader firmware upgrade.
*Microsoft will attempt to buy a cellphone company in order to tie in with windows mobile.
*Blu-ray will gain market share over DVD.
*Fancy Android phone with solar panel will be announced.
*A cloud services will be proven to have taken a considerable chunk out of software sales. (beginning of the end of software that we know it as.)
*iTunes will go DRM-free.
==Notes==
*Molly and Jason bet a two dollar bill on the copy and paste iPhone crisis.
*Tom said that Molly is from Venus.
*Tom did not say that Google would buy a fried chicken franchise.
==See also==
*Predictions
*Listener 2009 predictions
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