Industry analysts often end the year with predictions of future trends. This guest post from IdentityMine, a specialist in the “user experience” (UX) aspect of software development, predicts eight mobile application trends for 2011.
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Industry analysts often end the year with predictions of future trends. This year, CCS Insight has suggested possibilities such as an Apple iScreen TV, the dawn of mobile 3D video, implosion of the nascent tablet market (other than the iPad), Facebook adding VoIP, Android undermining Google’s new Chrome OS, the emergence of Meego as a mobile device OS, Apple acquiring GPS-maker TomTom, and more.
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Consistent with predictions by other mobile phone market analysts, Canalys announced this week that Android-based devices represented the largest OS segment of the U.S. smartphone market in Q3 of 2010, at 44 percent. On a vendor basis, Apple occupied the top spot, at 26 percent.
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Last month, we learned from Gartner that Android will probably be the number-two worldwide mobile OS this year, and may lead the pack by 2014. With Android’s growing use as the OS embedded in phones, netbooks, tablets, set-top boxes, and LCD HDTVs, we can’t help wondering: will the Linux-based OS soon dominate the entire non-PC consumer device OS market?
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The Nissan Leaf electric car’s “easy-to-use touch-screen Information Hub” will run Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Automotive operating system. But not to worry: it won’t be driving or controlling the car, so fear not the dreaded BSOD.
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