And the winner is.....?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 6:00AM 
Waving my hands mystically, and channelling the universe.....this is the future of computing..... The home PC market will be dominated by Apple and custom Linux installs from Dell. The Mobile (Cellphone) market will be a fight between Android and Apple. Microsoft and Google will control the Cloud. Video Gaming will be done on consoles that look more like supercomputers, probably between the same three as now - Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.
Why do I say this? Look at where the money is going, and where the consumers are going.
Here is the finer details:
Microsoft, and many others, will shift to the Cloud to stop piracy. If you want/need office, just subscribe to it, download and desktop client and you're away. They are already flirting with it, I'm sure they will see the advantages of a crossplatform market, once they're out of it.
Apple make the hardware we all want and once you get the iPhone and move to the Cloud you too can have that perfectly designed PC or Mobility Laptop for your home, and/or lap. And not to worry, all Microsoft's clients will run fine.
Google will continue their Ad supported hippy code-fest, and with their lead, will hold a good share of the Cloud space. Their push into the mobile market will be helped because with major cellphone manufacturers, when faced with competing with Apple, just made their phone's compatible with Android and re-skined the UI. So there is the elegance of the iPhone and the nerdiness of the Google Phone. Rolling a twenty to see the winner.
Gaming is a tricky one because the hardware manufacturers that don't get in with Apple and Dell, or who want to push the envelope, will need to get into the Video Gaming field. As the PC will be all but dead, consoles, water cooled by this stage, will be the platforms of choice. And with the money at stake there will always be enough room for the big three.
This is the future according to TBL Nostradamus. And we all know his record......So? It could happen!
Jason Remnant
Android, Apple, Google, Handhelds, Linux, Microsoft, News and Media, iPhone in Technology 
Reader Comments (1)
Apple controlling the hardware market would be a previously unknown 8th level of hell. You know how the Xbox 360 20GB hard drive sells for $150? Expect that same markup on EVERYTHING. At least the Microsoft monopoly doesn't extend to hardware. Give Apple that monopoly and you swap a dictator for a tyrant.
I could give a crap what my torrent box looks like. It's got two criteria - cheap & cheap. Which Apple product is that?