What's NOT Going To Happen In 2010
30 December 2009
- eReaders will NOT reach mass market appeal
- There will be no iPhone killer, only an ever increasing herd of iPhone wannabes.
- Fake Chinese phones will NOT destroy the handset market
- PCMCIA Cellular Data Card Modems will NOT make a comeback
- Femtocells are NOT going to go away
- Femtozone applications are NOT going invade living rooms with ‘femto app storefronts’
- Mobile person-to-person payments will NOT gain mass market acceptance in the US in 2010
- Internet Video is NOT going to create a mass exodus from pay-TV services
- On the other hand . . . . most “free” premium online video won’t become pay-per-play
- Social networking will NOT go through 2010 unscathed by security breakdowns
- Higher Education will NOT relinquish its leadership in early adoption of 802.11n
- Telepresence will NOT become mainstream in 2010
- Carriers will NOT be sidelined by off-deck LBS platforms
- Consumer telematics will NOT reach mass market status in 2010
- HP will not swallow 3Com without serious indigestion
- GSM will not die in 2010
- Renewable Energy Base Stations will hardly see any deployments for on-grid sites – limiting their green potential
- LTE will NOT be widely rolled out worldwide
- But RFID will keep chugging along...





