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1) Integrated Ecosystems- The tight integration of hardware and software that Apple has done so successfully in the last decade as other companies try to catch up. Expect more packaging of software and services to address infrastructure or application workload. There will be more shipment of appliances, with software delivered as hardware. 2) Enterprise App stores- Apple and Google together have more than 1 million applications on their app stores. 35+ billion apps have been downloaded from various app stores. Enterprises will now deliver mobile apps to workers via private application stores. This segment is bound to grow. 3) Social Media - Social Business and Enterprise 2.0: Key aspects of the CRM process are being overhauled to reflect a fundamentally social world. McKinsey and Company is reporting that the revenue growth of social businesses is 24% higher than less social firms .The message is that companies are going to -- and have every reason to -- be using social media as a primary channel. 4) Personal Cloud- Cloud will be the Centre of our digital lives for apps and content. Syncing of content across devices and platforms is a reality and will continue to grow. Services shall become more important and devices less important. 5) HTML 5- HTML 5 is the next version of HTML and is more interactive than the current version. Leading companies such as Apple have already dumped Flash in favor of HTML5. With HTML5 developers need not create separate apps for different platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows etc. Instead they can simply write one mobile browser site.1 billion phones are projected to support HTML5 by 2013. 6) Mobile Payments- The new Iphone 5 missed including an NFC chip but it did include its Passbook (mobile payment) application on its iOS6 platform. Twitters co-founder Jack Dorsey is pushing forward with Square, a mobile credit card reader that is now being introduced across Canada. Google already has Google Wallet that can be expanded to the mobile space. Mobile payments are here to stay and grow.
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