Then again, it wasn’t a PC World writer!

10 Things You Won’t See After the Recession

I actually agree with nearly everything on this list. Although, I really hope that the prediction of the demise of satellite radio doesn’t come true. I love it (even though, a little less since the merger… they ruined “The Beat 36″!). I have had it for almost 2 years now and I can’t stand the thought of going back to terrestrial radio. It is just horrid! I will be honest, I wouldn’t mind a small number of commercials if it helped keep it afloat. It doesn’t need to be 100% commercial free to keep me happy (and it isn’t right now anyway, a few channels do have commercials).

Palm has been on it’s way out since the Blackberry started getting into the market. It is just a better product. Don’t get me wrong, the Palm that I owned, I really liked. However, there were lots of things they could have done better. Especially when it was released with more than the “first round bugs”. Next month I am going to be saying hello to the Storm. It would have been an iPhone, but AT&T’s network sucks harder than… well, you can fill in the blank there.

Landlines? Come on. A fair number of people that I know already don’t have one. My Dad has been without a land line phone since 2002. I have been without one since 2003. This is interesting though. I think that most people will keep their landline for a lot longer than this author things. If people move, already have a cell phone, chances are likely they won’t get a landline at their new place. Most will keep it because they already have it. I am not too sure how many people have digital phone service with their cable.

Movie rental stores are closing up, and have been for a long time. Nobody rents movies in brick & mortar anymore. The few that are left will definitely be gone when this economic slump is over. I have already decided to ditch my cable TV for Netflix (no brainer! Save $35 bucks a month). It is going to be hard though. The final season of Battlestar Galactica starts in a few weeks. Maybe after that is over, THEN I will ditch the cable.

All start-ups without business plans should go away. Web 2.0 stuff is / was cool and I wish I had gotten in on it. I would have loved to make money tooling around with no REAL goal in sight. I have a feeling that those twitter folks might wish they had taken up Facebook on it’s offer and got out while the getting was good.

All in all, Mike nailed it. Good show.

I am still not renewing my PCW subscription… You know, money is tight and all.