GetJar founder and CEO Ilja Laurs knows mobile. Having started GetJar in 2004 and then pivoting it into the world’s first app store, he has watched mobile titans rise (Apple) and fall (Blackberry). Every year he makes a list of his predictions for the coming year in the world of mobile. Here is his list of predictions for 2012. Agree? Disagree? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
We will cover each of these predictions in more detail in our next posts. For more info about GETJAR app store visit them at www.getjar.com
- Apple loses to Android 2012
- Android explodes in the emerging markets, and destroys the feature phone market by 2013
- Google continues to restrict Android, and will close the platform by 2013
- Android experiences a major fork that changes the entire ecosystem
- Windows Phone 7 gains traction
- Carriers start lose ground on voice and text services, completely lose them by 2020
- Carrier and OEM app stores lose traction and disappear by 2013
- Platforms and OEM begin subsiding phones by 2015
- NFC payments will take off and become universal by 2015
- Paid apps continue to fade out
- The number of apps reaches 10 million and continues to grow
- Mass migration to cloud
We will cover each of these predictions in more detail in our next posts. For more info about GETJAR app store visit them at www.getjar.com
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