2012 brings more challenges to the technology world – Part 1

Last year read many success stories in the world of technologies. Some of them were revolutionary and some levitated the already successful ventures to dazzling heights.

Apple announced the second generation of iPad, and another successor to the iPhone. Although the original iPad was enjoying the most promising success among techies, the announcement of iPad 2 made its way to the fact that Apple remains the unbeaten king of mobile computing.

Moreover, the tablet became heart throb star of gaming enthusiasts all around the world because of a bigger pool of applications and games. The tablet had a faster CPU, well versed for computing on the go. With high resolution screen, it was one of the favourites of the movie watchers in addition to gamers.

The iPhone 4S was a disappointment to the technology experts in the start but with time, the iOS 5 started to spell its magic on tech gurus all over the world. The fact remains that iPhone 4S still remains the undefeated champion of smartphones and despite its late arrival it gouged a big chunk of market share from its peers. Siri, the virtual assistant, was the major selling point of phone.

This year however, has a different story to tell. 2011 was the year of tablets and smartphones, but 2012 will bring a lot more competition into the equation on a lot more fronts. The innovation of cloud computing is not a news to the tech experts but the advent of iCloud from Apple and SkyDrive from Microsoft has opened the Pandora’s Box for new entrants.

However, the fact remains that the main actors in the competition will be operating systems and applications. In that regard, Apple and Google are in a neck-and-neck competition with each other. However, the Cupertino-based organization has an advantage on Google on the management of the operating system.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jan 9 2012. Filed under Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry