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disolitude on 02 March 2013
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justinian said:
disolitude said:
Soleron said:

Predictions:

AMD and Nvidia to be bought or dismantled for their graphics by Qualcomm, Samsung or Apple. AMD's CPU division and Nvidia's Tegra division are basically worthless.
Nokia to be bought by MS.
RIM is dead.
Sony won't die but they won't be leading anything.

 

You added this after I quoted you so I'm just going to comment with my predictions. I actually agree with most of yours...

I see Samsung becoming such a leader on the Android side that they eventually fork out their own version of Android, screwing Google pretty badly.

Google will fire back with Motorolla made Nexus devices and it's own hardwre

Microsoft and Nokia will merge and Microsoft may help HTC to stay afloat and make Win 8 devices.

RIM is dead and done

Chinese manufacturers will continue carry the android flag and will overtake LG and Sony onthe mobile front.

Wow. You have a powerful crystal ball to see all this in the future.

Why would Samsung fork they own version of Android? How will this benefit them? It's not like they pay for it. Why would they do this? Android is Open source and they can pretty much do whatever they want with it now.

RIM does look dead and done and I won't argue too much with you on this one although some companies do pull the Lazarus trick.

Let's see if MS and Nokia will merge in the lifetime of Windows 8 as you predicted. When Windows 9 is release and this hasn't happen I will remind you to clean your crystal ball.

Yep, the Chinese are coming but to me this is as much a threat to Nokia as it is to LG and Sony.

Then again the Chinese, Indians and a lot of other emerging economies are now seeking to replace Windows with a national OS used by all it's citizens. This makes sense. Why allowed a propietory software made by a foreign country to be the main supplier of such an important part of a country's infrustructure?

In an ideal world every country that can should have their own national OS. Such a shame that one country should reap pretty much all the financial rewards.

 


Instead of wasting time arguing if my crystal ball is right or not, why don't you make your own predictions...  Now I have to spend time abd explain where my predictions come from and thats not fun at all...

Reason why Samsung will want their own version of OS or is because of the same reason Amazon did it with the Kindle Fire. Everyone wants full control of their own ecosystem.

Here are a few articles that seem to think this is a possibility

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/5-reasons-google-should-be-very-afraid-samsung-1C8593123

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/25/4029446/google-worried-about-samsung-dominance-of-android


Also, take a look at what the Chinese manufacturers are making. ZTE and Huawei are making mid range to high end android phones more than low end devices feature devices.  Samsung already took most of Nokias low end smartphone when Nokia stopped making Symbian devices. At this point Nokia is selling really good cheap feature phones (like the newly announced 105 for 15 dollars), cheap Asha line basic smartphones and Windows phones. Low and mid range Android devices from China will hurt HTC, Sony and LG much more than Nokia at this point.