The desktop PC is not dead, it’s just evolving to take the middle ground between the smartphone/tablet markets at one end and the high-def television and video markets at the other. If I had a dollar for every tech pundit who had predicted the death of the PC computer, I would be retired by now. That AOL mail account someday may mark you as a savvy Internet user once again. But ever so slowly, the company has rebuilt itself around its content and its communities, and in 20133 will begin to re-emerge as a serious contender to some of the market leaders. For a company that is barely two decades old, AOL has been many things to many people. Voice-command systems will be the first battle, and this will be a free-for-all in hands-free computing, with the battleground being the center console of your automobile.ĪOL will make a comeback. The only way for anyone to advance is to open a new front, and that’s slowly happening inside the family automobile. Much like the trenches of World War I and the Maginot Line. Apple dominant, Google holding its own, with an occasional assault by Microsoft and its allies.
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These are the tech wars for dominance, now comfortably settled into familiar trenches.
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So what’s in store for 2013? Here are our predictions:
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On the more subdued end of the industry, companies continued to see solid profits cyber-security became more critical and software got notably better – with smaller code, better user interfaces and tighter integration. On the flashy end of the business, Apple products drove the company to the top of the stock markets Blackberry died a grisly death and Microsoft pushed out yet another Windows operating system. Perhaps the best way to define technology in 2012 is that it was a balance of extremes.