Technology World

Today I was discussing about technologies and future of technology giants in our world. We talked about hardware starting from iPhone, iPad to Google Glass and smart Watches that will be released soon and softwares starting from outright success like iOS and Android to some of the biggest failure like Samsung Bada and BB10 and also to still struggling ones like Microsoft Windows 8. This kind of discussions are good as you get to know about newer trends and technologies. So I thought of writing key takeaways:

1. Phone and portable PC fight is going to fought primarily by Google, Apple and Samsung now with Nokia having an outside chance of becoming major player in medium term.

2. Google’s Android is going to become biggest platform for integrating all the digital devices in future. Android will not remain limited to Cell Phones or Tablets. We will see Android powered Fridges and workout machines sooner rather than later. iOS will be left behind in this race because of its closed approach.

3. Google Glass will open a new horizon and will open a floodgate of innovation as Apple did with iPhone and iPad.

4. Apple haven’t came out with a earth shattering innovation since long after iPad. New Mac is good but not in the same league.

5. Social Media is also showing interesting race between Facebook and Google Plus. Everybody agrees that feature wise G+ is far more superior than FB but still it is not able to get users queue on to it due to many reasons including feature overload.

6. In Google plus, Engineers are doing a lot of work to roll out new features but marketing is not marketing them barring recent campaigns like #incredibleindia. For Google Plus problem is not the features but marketing. Engineers can spend their energy in simplifying the interface.

7. Photosphere is a wonderful app, for which people will find lots of uses for example they can post photosphere pics of houses with ads for rent and it can cause wonders.

Overall Next 5-6 years are going to be very interesting with Google fighting with Apple, Samsung, Facebook and Microsoft on different fronts. The fight will not be easy but rewards are also very high.