Some Important Questions You Like.

Is there anything to replace email?

Well, there have already been some great answers here, but since some answers are already over 4 years old, there’s room for some fresh inputs.

Since nothing has come close to replacing email in the ensuing 4 years since the question was first raised, it might be apt to analyze "What will email evolve into" rather than discuss replacement.

Besides, email isn't a brand so it can't die the way Orkut did.

Asana and Slack come quite close to replacing email but they aren't quite killing it yet. From my limited usage of Asana, I think it's best suited for project management and teams. Emails can take a larger role.

Messaging technologies like FB Messenger or WhatsApp too have made room for themselves, but the overall market for tools of communication isn't a zero-sum game so email hasn't been hit. Each is defining its own role and doing quite well.

And I love what the Slack founder Stewart Butterfield said about email "Email is the cockroach of the Internet."

There are quite a few posts written on the future of email and email marketing; I think this one is quite good - and apparently updated, since it was posted as recently as Oct 2016.

What are the latest technologies in Java for getting higher salaries?

Microservices , Spring Boot, Messaging Queue , Cache ( Redish or gemfire)

Or you can go for java + other skill (either UI , angular Js , Node Js or react js) combination.

One more option nowadays booming is

Java + API Management (knowledge of any one of the tool APIGEE (google cloud), IBM data power, API connect, layer 7 etc

Last but not the least is

Java + cloud (PCF or Amazon )

You can choose any one . You will surely get your desired package.

All the best ..!!

What are bad technological flaws no one is addressing?

Earphones!!

In today’s life most of us use earphones. Its very annoying when one of the side stops working. You cannot fix it.

Sometimes holding it on certain angle works but that is even more frustrating.

Only if there was a way to fix it!!

You don't feel like throwing it as the other side is still working. All you can regret is about the money you spent on it.

So never buy cheaper ones. If you use it on daily basis, its worth buying one from a good brand.

How is Apple doing in Japan?

Let me just start off by saying, (almost) every single person in Tokyo owns an iPhone.

Just imagine that.

Almost no diversity.

Like Griffin Wagner said, iPhone has earned a 72% marketshare in Japan.

The same is not said for the MacBook. Windows is yet the norm here.

Well, why does Apple keep such a huge marketshare?

Well, for one, Japan is quite a trendy country. Teenagers here are no different from teenagers in the United States.

Yet these teenagers are quite easily manipulated.

From iPhone advertising all over Tokyo—

In the subway, on TV, on the street!

Everywhere, iPhone is branded as cutting-edge, and completely different from what we’ve seen in the world.

So yes, Apple is doing frickin’ amazing in Japan.

What is recent trend in Cloud and IOT security?

Along with social, mobile and analytics, cloud technologies and models have earned a place as one of the core disruptors of the digital age. And while the cloud market has matured over the years, its interaction with the rapidly growing data and analytics landscape suggests there are plenty more disruptive opportunities for cloud in 2016. As 2016 gets underway, five insiders share their predictions for what 2016 holds in store for the cloud.

IoT security remains a concern today. By 2020, organizations are estimated to spend as much as $267 billion on IoT security. So, how will 2017 stand out?

Primary focus area of IoT security in 2017

Here is what organizations will primarily focus on, this year, when it comes to IoT:

• Security of smartphone—Enabling IoT means people can track your daily behavior from the food you eat to the time you exercise for. The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission has brought out its own report on the IoT strategy it would employ this year.
• There will be more focus on endpoint devices and the process to make the security aspect more visible.
• More than 500,000 IoT devices are predicted to be compromised by 2017.

Was Steve Jobs right when he initially pumped web apps vs. native apps?

I think you were spot on Tobin.

The future of mobile is in the web. 

Just like with Desktop PC's of the late 90's and early 2000's -- if you wanted to accomplish anything you needed to download an app.

Through the mid 2000's things changed and everything moved towards the web as it became more mature and powerful.

We will see this happen in mobile.

Just like current day desktop's, there is still a need for native apps, but the need is dwindling as the power of the web grows.