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- monkeycatDx, on 12/24/2008, -4/+192At least the United States didn't make the list.
- msaleem, on 12/24/2008, -3/+147I seriously doubt free tech support will go away. Maybe they will reduce the duration of the free support to 30 days or so, but given the amount of competition there is between manufacturers, and how important it is to the not-savvy consumer at least in the initial period, I dont think they'll remove free support any time soon.
- aethelberga, on 12/24/2008, -5/+132I doubt it about retail stores & malls becoming ghost towns. Shopping is the number one recreation now and people will never give that up.
- EmailAddress, on 12/24/2008, -1/+1241. Free Tech Support
2. Wi-Fi You Have to Pay For
3. Landline Phones
4. Movie Rental Stores
5. Web 2.0 Companies Without a Business Plan
6. Most Companies in Silicon Valley
7. Palm Inc.
8. Yahoo
9. Half of All Retail Stores
10. Satellite Radio - UrlorJkron, on 12/24/2008, -0/+96I'm surprised he didn't put PC mag in there.
- skeptictank, on 12/24/2008, -3/+89Things you WILL see after the recession is over.
1. Fat wall street bonuses
2. Pork barrel spending
3. All the crap that started the recession in the first place. - zyko, on 12/24/2008, -0/+86What kind of recession are we in because apparently people still have money for iphone fart apps.
- Scaryclouds, on 12/24/2008, -14/+77To say this economic downturn will last only one year is eyewateringly optimistic and naive.
- MechaFalcon, on 12/24/2008, -2/+6211. Lists like these on multiple pages. Augh!
- LukeBeaumont, on 12/24/2008, -4/+64I love all the backseat economists here.
- Jaxelyse, on 12/24/2008, -0/+35I still go to the movie rental stores. Sometimes I just don't know what I want to watch until I get there. It's a mood thing.
- michaelpinto, on 12/24/2008, -11/+44Yahoo is one of the few dot.com companies making money - my bet is that they will become more valued within two years. Also after having gone through 9/11 I'm not about to give up my landline...
- muffcakes, on 12/24/2008, -1/+34I think it will be a long time before it is over. The economic machine is suffering from systematic problems not just a little hiccup that can be solved with some stimulus.
1)No organization can be funded by debt over the long term (preferably not even over the short term.
2)Resource usage must be sustainable or the organization will not last.
3)A democratic country cannot continue to operate successfully as such unless the population is educated well enough that politicians are forced to appeal to reason. - bdbr, on 12/24/2008, -0/+31I thought it was pretty funny that this guy's qualifications are: "I'm not an economist or a historian".
So basically this is some random guy's guesses. - charm803, on 12/24/2008, -0/+31Let's look on the bright side.
Inventions from the Great Depression:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1205_sb_ne ... - theholyraptor, on 12/24/2008, -1/+26I've read sex is becoming the number one recreation in this cash strapped time. Granted thats for normal people not digg users who would have to pay money for sex, thus defeating the whole concept as a free escape from these ***** economic times.
- lovemorgul, on 12/24/2008, -14/+37I'm not an economist or a historian, but it seems to me that this recession will be something unprecedented.
- Klisk, on 12/24/2008, -0/+22Lets read about computers without using our computer which has more knowledge about computers.
- MtheoryX, on 12/24/2008, -0/+21Sex is never free; I don't care who you are, what your relationship status is, or what you've heard.
You always pay for it, one way or another. - inactive, on 12/24/2008, -0/+20In troubled times it's important to prioritize your spending. Food, rent, farts.
- Klisk, on 12/24/2008, -7/+26The malls are still packed. Gaming stores are still packed.
Malls won't die because most people still don't trust the internet. Most people find the internet inconvenient.
This article is written by a very tech-savvy person who forgets that most people are the opposite of him. Most of his predictions are false.
Even his Sirius quote was way off base. Sirius is a huge success, and is not taking any losses that the media is reporting -- The media is lying, likely to make Howard Stern look bad. Quite the opposite, Sirius/XM is pulling in quite the profit. - LenBaird, on 12/24/2008, -1/+204 months ago " the fundamentals of the economy are strong," according to the government. Now, they say we've been in a recession for a year. They say it will only last a year though, so they must be right this time.
- thebaron2, on 12/24/2008, -4/+22I laughed when I got to that part.
Everyone thinks that whatever is happening during THEIR lifetime is unprecedented - whether it's the decline of morality, the coming of the last day's, or in this case "teh worst depression evar!!!!1!!11", history is replete with examples of this. - Klisk, on 12/24/2008, -2/+20I think the guy forgets that most people prefer getting in a car, and getting something WHEN they want it. People hate waiting for mail more than they hate paying tax, or taking a drive to a store.
- inactive, on 12/24/2008, -0/+18Dugg for all on one page
- ricksite, on 12/24/2008, -1/+19Who hasn't?
- linagee, on 12/24/2008, -2/+18It's like a cell phone. Only you have to pay extra for caller ID, call waiting, etc. Also, you can't take it with you as it's tethered by a cord. (Or range of the base station.) Also, calling different area codes costs extra money (usually free with a cell), and you can't do anything with it except transmit and receive analog voice.
- linagee, on 12/24/2008, -1/+16I predict we will be lowering the fed rate to -2% in 3 months. The US won't go away, it's money will just implode.
- AvengeX, on 12/24/2008, -4/+19I'm sick of hearing all this pessimistic crap. People need to just chill the ***** out, I'm looking at you scare-mongering, pessimistic article writers.
- houndeyex, on 12/24/2008, -2/+16Dugg just for mentioning Twitter. Those guys need to get it together.
- leif77, on 12/24/2008, -4/+17Maybe the recession will weed out all those pesky Top 10 lists... especially the baseless ones like this...
- MRintheKeys, on 12/24/2008, -0/+12Well your wife is a very agreeable woman......
- Charlotte_Web, on 12/24/2008, -1/+13It seems to me that most of the changes on the list were coming, anyway, and have nothing to do with the recession.
And "half of all retail stores" are not going away. There's such a thing as convenience. If shopping was only about price, Amazon.com would have run most retail stores out of business ten years ago. - raptordrew, on 12/24/2008, -1/+13People forget that security systems use landlines to call in - you won't be getting rid of it anytime soon. There are "wireless" alternatives many companies offer, but it's typically $40/mo. to pay for that instead of using the traditional system.
- bjornski, on 12/24/2008, -1/+12Those aren't going anywhere. With the big push to monetize everything, expect it to be split up onto twice as many pages.
- DanBoodro, on 12/24/2008, -1/+11Or if I did.
- LouBrown, on 12/24/2008, -0/+10Perhaps because it's happening?
And it's very real: layoffs, shorter working hours, etc. - Mwing09, on 12/24/2008, -3/+13NOT THE TOY STORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- rynsa, on 12/24/2008, -1/+11Much of the list I'm not sure I'll miss. One good thing about downturns, recessions, depressions, etc., you get a chance to clear out the superfluous and focus on the sustainable. Perhaps I'm naive here, but I have some hope that our current economic troubles might eventually beget a new American renaissance.
I'd be willing to part with retail outlets and video chains, for example, if it meant a surge in non-profit offices, artist studios, and mom-and-pop shops in formerly high-rent storefronts along Main Street. - bjornski, on 12/24/2008, -1/+10Kids also ruin the whole concept of sex as a "free escape".
Just be careful ;) - Mjeacoma, on 12/24/2008, -1/+10another article based on nothing but speculation - feels like it was written by an employee of a tech company that was let go and is upset about it....
- LauraAlice, on 12/24/2008, -1/+10Everybody wants to be a prophet; the author forgot print media and Britney Spears.
- inactive, on 12/24/2008, -2/+11Free tech support has never been free. The cost has always been rolled in to the cost of the product. As consumers get more cautious spending they will gravitate towards the deals offering longer warranties, not shorter, and 'free' tech support should grow, not fade.
- Punisher2K, on 12/24/2008, -0/+8My wife agrees
- KJSatz, on 12/24/2008, -2/+10Explain the 9/11 thing to me? Why did that make you want a landline?
- nkassi, on 12/24/2008, -0/+8YEP, exactly, seriously it's still one of the only viable internet companies. Goog and Yhoo (stocks) have followed the exact same line down in the last few months and they are doing exactly the same in terms of perfomance. So all the yahoo hate due to their refusal to be bought out by Microsoft is stupid. They have tons of good stuff coming out each year. Yahoo is bigger than yahoo.com's little search box.
- ricksite, on 12/24/2008, -0/+8Why are people always beating up on Yahoo? Why can't Yahoo just be Yahoo? They are in or near the lead in Yahoo mail, Flicker, Yahoo groups and probably some other areas. They aren't going to be number one in all areas and neither is Google.
- ricksite, on 12/24/2008, -0/+8I think RedBox is going to kill the rental stores. They are so much cheaper and convenient. Their selection is limited but if people want selection, they will go the Netflix route.
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