Xcake 2015: Resolutions and Predictions II

The latest in the ever-more-accurately-termed traditional selection of predictions and resolutions from the community. Extra fun bit: last year's predictions are here too :D

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1. Resolutions
 and Predictions II An Xcake New Year Event 2015
2. Iffy Predictions • VAGUE: lacking in detail, no specifics, can match in hindsight • HIGH PROBABILITY: odds are say 50/50 • FALSE SPECIFICITY: it sounds specific, but it isn’t really • OPEN-ENDED: no date, location • UNVERIFIABLE: you’ll never prove or disprove it
3. 2014 Xcake Predictions
4. Wearable computers will be big in 2014, but will never reach the heights of the iPhone 2014
5. Mobile wallet / payments for real world goods using your iPhone and iTunes account 2014
6. Apple will ship a wearable product in the Fall - Sep/Oct 2014
7. I will still have to support bloody iOS 5 on iPad :( 2014
8. New large form factor iPad (>19'', wooooo!) 2014
9. TV hardware update (larger disk storage, app store for tv, iBeacon- based bluetooth LTE, etc) 2014
10. BlackBerry still won't f**king die off 2014
11. Apple will release an iPhone 6 2014
12. iBeacons will become huge 2014
13. Android will continue to suck. 2014
14. People are going to get pissed off with constant notifications 2014
15. Users will be more protective of data, but will share if it's helpful to them 2014
16. Microsoft will add an Android emulation layer to Windows Phone 8 2014
17. Personal drones will require a license in the US 2014
18. Xcode 6 will totally ease the pain of provisioning/certs/etc. 2014
19. Death of web objects :) 2014
20. 2015 Xcake Predictions
21. Apple will do a "Snow Leopard" on iOS 2015
22. Apple's software quality will improve tenfold ! OS Stability improvements 2015
23. Microsoft buys Github 2015
24. Twitter does something stupid or becomes toxic 
 People to abandon it 2015
25. VR will become mainstream for gaming and TV 2015
26. Google will support an alternative programming language for Android 2015
27. Google to ditch Java in favour of Go for Android development 2015
28. Everyone will be using storyboards ! I love storyboards 2015
29. Apple will buy a company we don't expect: Space X or something 2015
30. Samsung finally cuts ties from Google Services 2015
31. Apple TV Update 
 App Capabilities
 Watch Stylee 2015
32. Apple TV will been given a quick and humane death 2015
33. Apple TV will finally be given an SDK and a new lease of life 2015 ಠ_ಠ
34. Apple Pay all the things! 2015
35. Swift toolchain will be open-sourced 2015
36. Google will be better at UI than Apple is at Web services 2015
37. The platform wars end, everyone loses 2015
38. The rise of thin-client apps continues 2015
39. WWDC announces a bold new direction for apple. SDKs that launch when they're finished, not when the WWDC slides need to be submitted. 2015
40. App Store Improvements
 Demo Apps
 Paid upgrades Developer review responses Less Capricious 2015
41. The end of Apple television set rumours 2015
42. Apple will introduce a cool small phone 2015
43. 2015, the year of Linux on the Desktop! 2015
44. 2015 will not be the year of desktop Linux 2015 ಠ_ಠ
45. TouchID MacBooks safari integration bluetooth handover 2015
46. Airplay bluetooth apps 2015
47. Apple will introduce a cool small phone 2015
48. Apple Watch will disappoint ! 2015
49. Apple Watch won't be a success 2015
50. 
 Apple Watch will be reported as a huge fail 2015
51. Apple Watch is shite ! Still a blinding success 2015
52. Apple Watch will be ridiculously expensive, and a huge hit 2015
53. Dermot will buy an apple watch even though he doesn't want one 2015
54. Karl will progressively get worse dressed and we'll strike a balance 2015
55. Xcake Resolutions 2015
56. Release more apps 2015
57. Tapadoo will release Apple Watch and/or Google Wear App 2015
58. Ship this damn app I've been working on for far too long 2015
59. Unit testing and then more unit testing 2015
60. Learn in a more structured way 2015
61. Finish projects 2015
62. Ship an iOS app either personally or convince my employer to let me work on one. 2015
63. Take a lib or tool that I use for convenience all the time for me and figure out how to do it myself, as an exercise 2015
64. Create and release a cross platform app 2015
65. New MacBook Air with ZERO ports! 2015
66. Focus on the task at hand 2015
67. Release 3 new products 2015
68. Release 2 new open source libraries 2015
69. Take time to celebrate successes 2015
70. Try one of those fancy new programming languages, for no legit reason really 2015
71. Code less 2015
72. Release a few apps, said that last year and made zero 2015
73. Have a look at all this android stuff, I been hearing so much about 2015
74. Get a move on with that other app I've been meaning to start for far too long 2015
75. Do more with swift 2015
76. Learn Ruby for real this time 2015
77. Buy an Apple watch 2015
78. Experiment more 2015
79. Play more with multi- peer networking 2015
80. Dress as sharply as Karl 2015
81. Fight!
82. Xcake Resolutions 2014
83. To spend more time on things out of my comfort zone e.g. sales
84. Learn Ruby / Rails for fun and profit.
85. Get a proper automated delivery system together from code to download
86. Publish at least one app
87. International superstar guest speakers at Xcake!
88. Xcake tshirts! Xcake hoodies! Xcake underpants!
89. Stop installing AppCode and then not using it and then getting annoyed that I've Java on my machine
90. Use Ruby more; do some web development, instead of just mobile all the time
91. Get to more conferences
92. Do another non-client app
93. Good mental & physical health
94. Make loadsa money!
95. Have 3 additional products by end-of-year
96. Reduce contracting revenue to 30% of total
97. Do more unit tests & UI Automation
98. Delve into some more UX.