Technorama

I predicted the 2008 UK (and global) financial crisis and housing bubble burst back in 2007. Also predicting the bottom of the housing market in 2009, catching the moment after the bottom of the market had turned in late 2009.

So, a few more predictions.

Twitter has no business model, ads are the only thing that might save it, or turning to technology (like Amazon has with AWS etc). Big companies can rarely turn it around (IBM maybe one possible exception - recently buying Red Hat). I expect Twitter to shrink dramatically by 2025.

Facebook is still a one trick pony, whatsapp and Instagram are the only things that might save it. Facebook doesn't have much technology, it can't compete with Amazon and Google.  What might save it? Facebook AI team is pretty smart, recently demonstrating some tech ie. beating human poker players in July 2019.  However, possibly too little, too late. I expect facebook to not recover from the privacy scandals, it won't successfully pivot into something else, it will shrink dramatically by 2030.

Microsoft, the master of the pivot, will do well, they've embraced open source, and Azure is doing very well. Microsoft will be here for a long time, with a bigger market share in 2025.

Google and Amazon are the big winners, Amazon has both tech and retail (even Whole Foods). Both of these will keep expanding.

Apple will still keep doing well.

Noticed a lot of insecure/unsafe code in Gnome and Libexif recently.

1st mistake of inexperienced programmers is to say of interfaces "Not everything has to be NULL-safe".

There is no reason to crash an application instead of robustly handling, logging and dealing with it. It is much better to log rejected parameters so programmers can deal with them later
Bringing down the whole application with a crash is the worst thing that can be done to a user.

If I called function(-1) that was expecting a positive number, it should also check >0.

A crash is even worse than a horrible MsgBox popup inexperienced programmers put in.