orangecat comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orangecat 04 January 2011 10:31:24PM 0 points [-]

75% probability of being mainstream, or at least not unusual, by 2020. It seems like the obvious solution: phone screens are too small, laptops and even tablets are too inconvenient to carry around constantly. And I'd go 50/30/20 on the first mass market product being based on Android/Apple/other. (With Android, anybody can build it without asking for permission).

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 05 January 2011 03:43:37AM 1 point [-]

The argument for Apple is that a killer-quality device in this category would require serious UI support from the OS, possibly new interactions (eye tracking for example).

Comment author: gwern 07 January 2011 01:18:10AM 0 points [-]