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Originally Posted by Anthem
The Average Joe rarely knows that there is anything to "forecast".
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Any conscious user of the technology already knows the future, intuitively. There is a deep understanding of the good and bad of each tech. I bet that even a casual sampling of our usage of tablets and e-readers on this forum would tell us the bulk of what we need to make our own projections.
Only companies disconnected from the sentiments of their users are convinced of the need to pay a disconnected research firm to tell them their version of the future. Unfortunately there is no shortage of management with more funds than sense.
The wildcards (as always) are new tech developments and processes and the usual efficiencies of production and marketing bringing prices further down on existing technology. Again those whose business it is to have a clue should be aware of most of this.