Adam Richter

I decided to do this a bit early with the holidays and the end of the year only a few days away I figure I should be pretty safe.

Before 2009 kicked off, I predicted that:

1. Economy will turn around.
2.Circuit City, Linen’s and Things would not be missed.
3. Netbook sales will increase, but Q4 09 would should gains for notebooks.
4. Obama will have low approval ratings.
5. House prices will continue to decline throughout 2009.
6. Blu-Ray players will drop below $150 and disc prices will drop. Digital downloads of movies will also jump.
7. WiMax will continue to struggle.
8. Flickr will be sold off from  Yahoo!
9. iPhone rev 3 will be unimpressive.
10. I will break my 250gb limit from Comcast.

My results:

1. Third quarter GDP growth was 2.9%, so yes we’re seeing some improvement. +1
2. The big stores aren’t missed, I do miss Joe’s though. +1
3. Netbook shipments are up. Small growth in notebooks. Desktops are flat. +1
4. Obama has an approval rating of 50% at time of this writing. I’ll give this a half point. +.5
5. Housing prices went down all year. However, during last few months we have seen a slight uptick in prices (.2%). +.75
6. Big drop in these. Can pick some up for around $100. Disc prices remain high but most of the time they have them on sale for as cheap as the DVD version. +1.
7. Yup, continues to struggle. +1
8. Nope. +0
9.  3Gs was successful and market share is up. +0
10. Came close, but no. I also switched to high speed fiber half way through the year. +0

6.25 / 10

I’ll try to do better next year.