Resolutions and Predictions

A year-start list of resolutions and predictions from the Xcake community in Dublin.

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1. Resolutions
 and Predictions An Xcake New Year Event
3. To spend more time on things out of my comfort zone e.g. sales
4. Learn Ruby / Rails for fun and profit.
5. Get a proper automated delivery system together from code to download
6. Publish at least one app
7. International superstar guest speakers at Xcake!
8. Xcake tshirts! Xcake hoodies! Xcake underpants!
9. Stop installing AppCode and then not using it and then getting annoyed that I've Java on my machine
10. Use Ruby more; do some web development, instead of just mobile all the time
11. Get to more conferences
12. Do another non-client app
13. Good mental & physical health
14. Make loadsa money!
15. Have 3 additional products by end-of-year
16. Reduce contracting revenue to 30% of total
17. Do more unit tests & UI Automation
18. Delve into some more UX.
20. Wearable computers will be big in 2014, but will never reach the heights of the iPhone
21. Mobile wallet / payments for real world goods using your iPhone and iTunes account
22. Apple will ship a wearable product in the Fall - Sep/Oct
23. I will still have to support bloody iOS 5 on iPad :(
24. New large form factor iPad (>19'', wooooo!)
25. TV hardware update (larger disk storage, app store for tv, iBeacon- based bluetooth LTE, etc)
26. BlackBerry still won't f**king die off
27. Apple will release an iPhone 6
28. iBeacons will become huge
29. Android will continue to suck.
30. People are going to get pissed off with constant notifications
31. Users will be more protective of data, but will share if it's helpful to them
32. Microsoft will add an Android emulation layer to Window Phone 8
33. Personal drones will require a license in the US
34. Xcode 6 will totally ease the pain of provisioning/certs/etc.
35. Death of web objects :)
36. Fight!