Comment by drewtato | Hacker News Reader

Comment by drewtato | Hacker News Reader

> I predict that within 2 years the iPhone OS will allow you to run unapproved apps provided you click through enough, "Hey, we're warning you! Don't come crying to us when you manage to blow up your dock connector", messages.

-DannoHung (2010)

I'm so sorry Danno. We're still waiting.

> I predict within 2 years no one will even hear about an Nvidia GPU in an Intel-based laptop (unless we're talking $2000+ machines - maybe).

-higherpurpose (2015)

(this is probably about AMD CPUs?) Looks like it's going to be wrong for many more years.

> I predict the sun will run out of steam and we are all gonna die.

-the-dude (2020)

I dunno about that, sun looks fine to me!

footnote: sorry for adding dupes to your data

> I'm so sorry Danno. We're still waiting.

How long is the transition phase for Apple until EU users will be allowed to install any software on iOS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163704

Edit:

> After being signed by the President of the European Parliament and the President of the Council, it will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and will start to apply six months later.

> every app available for the MacLet (iPad/tablet) will be officially available for the MacBook

It appears this has come to pass. https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=3625

With dma, apple allowing unapproved apps will probably come true.

>> I predict the sun will run out of steam and we are all gonna die.

> -the-dude (2020)

> I dunno about that, sun looks fine to me!

I'd call that one half-right. The sun is almost certainly devoid of all gas-phase H2O. Well, maybe a quarter-right, because it didn't "run out" of something it didn't have.

Found another one:

> I predict we will still be using SMS in 10 years.

-malandrew (2012)

Yep. But mostly in the US when cross-OS or automated.

> I predict the sun will run out of steam and we are all gonna die.

To be fair, all of us are indeed going to live a normalish distribution of lifespans and the sun is too.

> I'm so sorry Danno. We're still waiting.

Yeah? I thought this exists:

https://sideloadly.io/

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