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I guess the end of a year is a good time to make predictions on what is coming for us (I mean photographer/computer user/iPhone fans/geeks of all sort).

I don’t think I’m being very original here but we can forecast 2 things:

- The tablet computer – or maybe it’s 2010 version. Apple has something coming up. It’s now all over the web and it looks like it’s coming on January 26th. What it’s gone be exactly? We start to have a pretty good idea. It will be based on the iPhone OS or maybe more precisely on Cocoa Touch. But isn’t Cocoa Touch becoming more and more of a software layer built on top of some flavor of MacOS. Apple will need to add a few things to it but they have already so much in there that it won;t be too difficult.

It’s actually when I realized how much Apple invested in Cocoa Touch that I realized that this cannot be just for the iPhone. They are building a full software environment for devices that will actually use a “touch” interface. the iPhone is the first one but certainly not the last.
So it looks like in 2010 we will se more Cocoa Touch devices, whatever they are called.

- DSLR camera shooting video and video camera usable for stills. Ok no big surprise here. Actually I could have written the same thing last year at the same time. What did 2009 brought us.
On the video camera side – A big announcement from Red about their new product but nothing is really shipping here. Maybe it will become real in 2010 and we will have a better idea.
On the DSLR side, a few product actually shipped, some pretty convincing products from Canon and some less convincing attempts by Nikon. But Nikon experience with video does not compare with Canon’s and I’m afraid that they will be playing catch up or the next few years.

Ok those are the products predictions but is that really what matters? I don’t think so, what matters is what will be the consequences of those new products, what are they going to change?

Let’s celebrate the end of 2009 and the upcoming 2010 and we will talk about that tomorrow.