It is that time of year again — namely, prediction-making season. Gartner is the first out of the gate with its top 10 strategic tech trends for 2013 and a few years beyond. Among its forecasts: dominance of mobile devices; shift to HTML5; growth of the personal cloud; growth of private enterprise app stores; and rise of the Internet of things. Few would argue against the fundamental assumptions underlying most of the predictions: mobile growth, check; cloud computing, check.
However, some of the details Gartner provides do spark debate.
It's a Mobile, Cloudy, Appy, Thingy World
Posted by: Erika Morphy October 25, 2012 09:57 AMIt is that time of year again — namely, prediction-making season. Gartner is the first out of the gate with its top 10 strategic tech trends for 2013 and a few years beyond. Among its forecasts: dominance of mobile devices; shift to HTML5; growth of the personal cloud; growth of private enterprise app stores; and rise of the Internet of things. Few would argue against the fundamental assumptions underlying most of the predictions: mobile growth, check; cloud computing, check.
However, some of the details Gartner provides do spark debate.