Decade’s worst predictions: “The iPod will be dead”

I’m not sure why everyone’s doing their “Of the Decade” lists going into 2010, but here we are. As part of the wrap-up of the Aughts, Newsweek has assembled various “experts” to give what they feel were the worst predictions of the decade, and Fake Steve Jobs (Daniel Lyons) starts the list off with Sir Alan Sugar’s prediction that “The iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput,” made in February 2005. Lyons brings the customary cutting wit of His Steveness:

We thought it was hilarious when Sir Alan Sugar predicted that by the end of 2005 the iPod would be “dead, finished, gone, kaput.” I remember saying, “Wow, that’s so weird, because I was just thinking the exact same thing about Sir Alan Sugar.” See, by then we were on the verge of introducing video. We also had prototypes of the iPod Touch and iPhone in the labs. We knew where the iPod was headed and how huge it was going to be.

The rest of the list is worth a glance, spanning a variety events from the “winners” of Super Bowl XLII to the Large Hadron Collider destroying the planet, but Mac users will get a bit more schadenfreude from #7, where Bill Gates expresses doubts about the future of Google.

Read [Newsweek.com]