Prediction (Untitled) By 2025 Coinbase will release a point of sale product allowing businesses to accept cryptocurrencies. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) Tom Cruise will finally grow tired of printing out safe action movies (Knight and Day, Jack Reacher, etc.) and return to his days of Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, Tropic Thunder, while also embracing his older age. I believe in you Cruise. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) In Android P, the UI to indicate battery saver mode will be replaced with something less garish. – Twitter Resolved • True. Battery save mode has been updated with the release of Android P on 6 August 2018.
Prediction (Untitled) When the minimum amount of Ether to put at stake in the PoS consensus mechanism is announced, the price of Ether will jump as people attempt to hit that minimum amount. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) By 2025 there will be a large scale attack carried out on a cryptocurrency that compromises the consensus of that specific blockchain, stealing over 100 million dollars. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) By 2030 wireless will usurp hard line (cables in the ground and on telephone poles) as the main way Americans receive internet in their home. Your modem will be connected to a wireless carrier rather than a cable coming into your house. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) Next global economic downturn there will be a boon in cryptocurrency market capitalization as people convert their fiat to crypto. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) When level 5 autonomous vehicles are prevalent, a large portion of the value of high value real estate (downtown, great location, etc.) will be transferred to what is now considered low value real estate (suburbia, outskirts, etc.). – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) By 2050, grocers like Walmart and Amazon will differentiate by growing proprietary produce. Think special versions of an orange or even completely new species of plants. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) Like Amazon Prime, other large tech companies will release all encompassing subscription plans for their products and services. E.g. Pay Apple $1k a year for a phone upgrade every year, a computer upgrade every two years, Apple Music included, etc. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) In the Pixel 3 phone, Google will release a Face ID equivalent that utilizes less specialized hardware than the iPhone X, but makes up for it in software. Similar to Portrait mode now. – Twitter Resolved • False. No Face ID equivalent feature was announced for the Pixel 3. It was announced
Prediction (Untitled) By 2022 Google will release a product for managing users’ passwords, similar to Lastpass and 1Password. It will have 2FA and other advanced security measures built in. – Twitter Updates • Chrome 79 will continuously scan your passwords against public data breaches Chrome 79 will continuously scan your passwords against public data
Prediction (Untitled) Razer will release one more iteration of the Razer Phone then stop making them all together. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) By 2021 there will be a product used by millions of people built almost entirely on Firebase. – Twitter Resolved Invalid. A member of the Firebase team confirmed this was already the case when the prediction was made. Also, this prediction is difficult to confirm conclusively.
Prediction (Untitled) Google will release a Pixel device with a Google designed SoC in 2019. – Twitter Resolved • False. The Pixel devices released in 2019 (Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 4, and Pixel 4 XL) all use Qualcomm designed SoCs.
Prediction (Untitled) The “sufficiently simple app” Firebase will allow users to build will be cross platform using the Flutter SDK under the hood. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) By 2021, Firebase will allow easy integration with services that provide data about the world e.g. news, weather, stock prices, etc. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) By 2023, Firebase will allow a “non developer” to build a sufficiently simple app. This includes backend and UI. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) Google will release an Android Wear watch in 2018. – Twitter Resolved • False. Miles Barr, Google’s director of engineering for Wear OS, confirmed there will be no Wear OS watch from Google in 2018. Updates • I’ve made a new prediction saying the watch will be released before 2022.
Prediction (Untitled) Google will release the Pixel phone through all major US carriers in 2018. – Twitter Resolved • False. The Google Pixel 3, released in 2018, will be sold only through Verizon, Project Fi, and the Google Store. Updates • The Pixel 4 was released in 2019 through all major carriers.
Prediction (Untitled) Google will release a Pixel device with Google designed silicon in 2019. – Twitter Resolved • True. Google released the Pixel Neural Core with the Pixel 4 in 2019.
Prediction (Untitled) Spotify will either undergo a major shift away from their commodity streaming service or they will perish. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) When level 5 driving automation is ubiquitous, the likes of Avis and Hertz will not exist. – Twitter
Prediction (Untitled) The Android Q rollout will prove the update problem for Android has been fixed, especially on high end devices. – Twitter