2025 is going to be an interesting year to watch. It’s becoming increasingly more difficult for me to try and guess what’s coming technologically, so instead, I’ll focus on a couple of things I’d like.
I’d like to think that the rift with Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine could get resolved amicably. With Meta laying off its fact checkers and with the political climate being what it is, things on line are about to be vaulted into the next era of web. (LOL). Personally, I’m an advocate for governance and I wish there were a way it could be moderated fairly, but I’m afraid the extreme opinions are going to dominate, and whoever is screaming the loudest is going to get the attention, which is truly unfortunate. When things happen like the legal battle between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, it just seems to undermine the whole foundation and makes an already sketchy, largely unfiltered platform seem that much less stable to me. So I’d like to see that go away, so if the internet is going crazy, the platform that drives an enormous part of it can at least be on solid footing.
Something that would delight me personally is something I was hoping for last fall when Apple did its hardware announcement. I’d like to see an M series powered iPad Mini, even if it’s only an M1 in these days of M4 powered iPad Pros. I think that would make the popularity of that little platform soar. Especially with all of the Apple Intelligence stuff going on.
In a newsletter I subscribe to the author supposed that this would be the year that Apple focuses on it’s home series of products like smart speakers and set top boxes and really expands it’s lineup that way as the commuter innovation seems to have plateaued a little bit and the Apple Car is officially off the table.
Could this be the year that “just tech support” comes into its own? I hear company after company and person after person talking about how their startups missed the mark by not emphasizing tech support earlier than they did. And if you follow business news on LinkedIn, it seems like companies are having a renewed interest in live, personal tech support. I’d get on board with that.
So there you have it, although a week or two late to the dance, these are issues I’d love to see get some industry attention in 2025. For simplicity’s sake, here they are in bullet points:
- Some resolution with the WP situation
- An M series iPad Mini
- Support being legitimized as a career
I’d enjoy hearing what you anticipate or would like to see technologically in 2025.
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