After a look at the past with our TOP 10 products, services and technologies of the decade, let's focus on the future! The internet site globalthougtz.com has published their forecast for the Top 10 trends of 2010. Their prediction is a very interesting mix of usage, devices, and infrastructure : it covers all the aspects of our digital life. According to who you are : average techno user, geek, company, your ranking may vary quite a bit. You can create your own Top and share it with others here.
Top devices :
Apple Tablet (#1): expected by many, feared by competitors, this brand new product could rock 2010 if it brings as many novelties as the Iphone. It could create a new category of devices which would enable us to have a better usage of the Internet and more mobility.
Netphone (#2) : The Iphone has deeply changed the way we use both the Internet and our mobile phones. However, it is still a very low share of the total mobile phones market and it is expensive for most people. With the new Google phone and other competitors' products we could see a very significant increase of smartphones if we have the possibility to easily access VOIP with them.
Top usages :
Online TV (#6) and Mobile transaction (#10). These trends confirm that, more and more, we do things with our mobile and on our PC that we used to do somewhere else or with other devices. For TV, if it is really easy to have access to it on the Internet, it is still difficult to have the same quality and richness of programs. Many broadcasters are still reluctant to give access to their images on something else than the good old TV set. With the success of Hulu and Youtube, globalthougtz.com predicts that all these broadcasters will soon increase their offer and then create a much wilder usage of online TV.
For mobile transaction, there are so many new applications and possibilities that we could expect the beginning of the end of credit cards in 2010, if security matters are definitely solved.
Infrastructure and "hard technology":
Virtualization (#5) and Cloud Computing (#7). These "new" technologies are certainly less visible for users on a day to day basis. But the merit of this Top is to remind us that with the possibilities they create of a better management of hardware ressources and increase of flexibility, companies can benefit from the Internet on a much bigger scale. The more they do it, the more competitive and agile they will be and the more wealth they will create.
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