What’s Not Going to Happen in 2010
Written on January 6, 2010 by Pinoy NetBooks
Filed Under: News
Here’s ABI’s list of what’s NOT going to happen in 2010:
1. eReaders will NOT reach mass market appeal
2. There will be no iPhone killer, only an ever increasing herd of iPhone wannabes
3. Fake Chinese phones will NOT destroy the handset market
4. PCMCIA Cellular Data Card Modems will NOT make a comeback
5. Femtocells are NOT going to go away
6. Femtozone applications are NOT going invade living rooms with “femto app storefronts”
7. Mobile person-to-person payments will NOT gain mass market acceptance in the US
8. Internet Video is NOT going to create mass exodus from pay-TV services
9. Most “free” premium online video will NOT become pay-per-play
10. Social networking will NOT go though the year unscathed by security breakdowns
11. Higher Education will NOT relinquish its leadership in early adoption of 802.11n
12. Telepresence will NOT become mainstream
13. All turn-by-turn handset-based navigation will not become free
14. Carriers will NOT be sidelined by off-deck location-based services platforms
15. Consumer telematics will NOT reach mass market status
16. HP will NOT swallow 3Com without serious indigestion
17. GSM will NOT die
18. Renewable Energy Base Stations will hardly see any deployments for on-grid sites – limiting their green potential
19. LTE will NOT be widely rolled out worldwide
20. But RFID will keep chugging along…
ABI’s Research experts have put their heads together to debunk some of the most-hyped predictions about what will happen in tech-related industries around the world.
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Comments (1)
Mojo says:
2010-01-06 06:34:17
oh behave!
welcome back!
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