Prediction: Google will eventually buy Palm or Nokia. They will then keep
your email, calendar, address book on their servers and sync it to your
phone/PDA/MP3 player through wireless Internet, the cell phone network or
through a USB cable to your PC. This would make programs like Outlook
obsolete.
Google can then make it possible to download maps and directions from
Google Maps to your phone/PDA/MP3 player and take them with you in the car.
If the phone/PDA/MP3 player has GPS built in, the directions become
interactive.
Then Google can make money selling phones/pdas/mp3 players and through
advertising.
Second prediction: Apple will enter the car audio market. An Apple in
your dash will let you easily play songs from one or more iPods through your
car stereo speakers, which is tough to do. Also, an Apple car stereo could
turn an OnStar cellular phone connection into a wireless Internet connection
for any computer into the car. It could also send ditial video to in-car
TVs.
Apple has strong competence in user interfaces for small devices, and
such interfaces are the key differentiating component of any car stereo
these days.
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