The market has changed enormously in the short year BloggingStocks has been bringing you moment by moment coverage. YouTube is now Gootube. AOL has dropping its membership model. The unknown in many quarterly reports increasingly comes from overseas sales. On this, our first anniversary, our editors challenged us to put on our pointed hats, pull out the crystal balls and peer into the future. What will the world look like a year from now?
- The wireless scramble will become even more of a madhouse, as overlapping systems fight for the right to extend free coverage community-wide in return for ad revenue and upsell opportunities. The idea of a coffeehouse drawing customers to enjoy an island of wireless will seem quaint. Those companies selling wireless access in airports, etc. will see their business evaporate.
- Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, tapping into its iPod customer base, will finally provide an integrated music/telephone device that the public will embrace. Cell phone providers will scramble to offer competing products/services, spending huge dollars to out-promote Apple. With phone downloading, CDs will join VCR tapes and casettes on the junk heap.
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