Wildfire's Tech Trends for 2010
30 December 2009
- Crunch time for Windows Mobile – can it survive?
- Trend towards paid-for – an end to widespread “free” in all sorts of things
- At the pocket level, Droid will fail but a few diamonds will emerge
- Carbon accounting packages and add-ons designed to meet the CRC laws will appear
- 3DTV will be the big CE buzzword
- Internet/wi-fi radio will go mainstream
- The first assassination of a public figure, facilitated by Twitter
- Still no hoverboards
- Goodbye acquisition, hello loyalty
- Testing, testing 1-2-3
- SSD uptake – solid-state disks look set to become mainstream
- Cloud computing
- Apple vs Google – in the mobile world
- To pay or not to pay
- Mobiles, especially smartphones, will get bigger





