Thursday, December 30, 2010  2010 Predictions: Fail  A review of
my 2010 guesses, which were even worse than 2009: Apple's Jesus
Tablet, as it's called at Businessweek. I'm a Jobs fanboi, but
the hype for an unannounced, unspec'd product is reaching absurd
proportions. It's amazing to me that not one photo of this has
been leaked, even with product launch less than a month away. I
am skeptical, particularly of the claims that it will
revolutionize everything. Why? The mobile bandwidth issue.
Networks are already clogged just from the iPhones. (At least
that's what they tell us.) These tablets will inherently use
much more bandwidth, slowing everything down further. I'm not
saying the tablet concept is doomed or won't be a huge success,
I am just saying that I don't think its time has come yet. It
hit the market in April, and I stand by my prediction that it
will revolutionize jack. Magazine publishers had such high
hopes. Too bad, the publishing revolution failed. Sure, Apple
sold 8.5 million iPads so far, bu