10 things you don't need to worry about in 2014

The piece is a yearly list of things the author says should not worry readers in 2014. It ranges across enterprise technology, consumer devices, and policy, with short claims about each topic’s likely direction over the year.

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• IBM’s cloud business is presented as still overstated, with the SEC probe and more acquisitions not yet adding up to a strong customer-focused business.
• Developer jobs are said to remain plentiful, though landing a desired role still depends on the right mix of skills and experience.
• MongoDB is described as maturing and becoming a larger force after raising money and expanding sales and marketing.
• Hadoop is treated as a growing market, with demand driven by data volume, concurrency, and companies’ reluctance to throw things away.
• Dell is expected to last after going private, but not to spark a strong PC rebound.
• Microsoft Office is not expected to disappear in 2014, despite mobile trends and the author’s dislike of it.
• BlackBerry is described as barely existing, with value shifting toward patents and lawsuits.
• Hollywood and the recording industry are said to keep congressional support against technology-industry and freedom-oriented reform.
• Cheap tablets are presented as a durable part of ubiquitous computing.
• Google Glass is judged to be weak at launch, likely to attract only a fad audience.