Click To View Slideshow» This is the tech that might not make it through the next 12 months. What are your picks?
This time last year, I slapped on my prognosticator hat and attempted to guess which notable technologies, brands, and devices would (probably, and in some instances, hopefully) meet their demise in the following 12 months. A sort of tech death pool. And as you can see in the comments, all the readers were totally on board with this morbid experiment!
This feature partly existed as a place to vent about the technologies we cover all year long. It was an opportunity to be a jerk. I don't think I'll get a job predicting global markets any time soon, but as it turned out, I managed to get a few correct:
- Meerkat: Boom
- Groupon: Somehow, some way, still going
- Windows Phones: Sorta? Put it back on the list this year.
- Foursquare: Ugh.
- Google+: It continued its slow death, but it's still going.
- Blogger: Google kills Google Reader, but not this?
- Yahoo: Kinda sorta? More on that in this year's list—Yahoo had a badyear.
- Google Wallet: Sorta? Still around, but they just pivoted away from P.O.S. payments.
- Ello: Still going. They're going for the loooong goodbye.
- BlackBerry: Boom
- Elon Musk: Proud to be wrong
So, out of a possible 11, I scored two on the nose with three kinda-maybes. At its most generous, I got 46 percent right. I'm okay with that, but I aim to do far better this year! As I've noticed, y'all aren't shy with your opinions on this matter. Please let us know your opinions on this year's picks and those technologies you don't think will survive to see 2018. Let's meet back here in a year and see how we did. Peace.
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