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For BlackBerry, the inventor of the proto-smartphone, finally fell this year the canvas. Twitter hit his wings at the fair and mini tablets were more popular than ever. The major tech trends of 2013 in charts 7.
2013 was a year of truly revolutionary new devices. But, of course, did not stop. Tech sector
Tech giant Microsoft treated the world on a cliff Pe r for 2014: who is the successor to the iconic CEO Steve Ballmer? Other greats like Apple, Samsung and Google shared plague bumping into each other, but all without knockouts, in the absence of breakthrough innovations.
the market for smartphones and other mobile phones in 2013 was mainly a year of clear losers. The last attempt of the BlackBerry to pull the ailing company with new models failed completely opposed. Finland’s Nokia chose eggs for money and withdrew from the smartphone market.
In the crowded arena of social networking sites in particular attacked the IPO on Twitter. An overview in 7 graphs.
1. Windows Phone vs. BlackBerry
The battle for third place in the market for operating systems for smartphones seems decided. The Microsoft Windows Phone wins Canada’s BlackBerry. Figures from market research firm IDC that more phones are shipped with Windows Phone than BlackBerry OS.
to stores in 2013 
Windows Phone has been busy the past year to a silent march. BlackBerry contrast went downhill fast. The company that before the advent of the iPhone ushered in the birth of the smartphone, was wiped out in 2013. For 2014, it may be already written obituary.
Both operating systems, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, incidentally fall into insignificance when the two giants in the smartphone market: Google’s Android operating system, followed by Apple’s iOS
at an appropriate distance.
2. Nokia sold to Microsoft
Leader of Windows Phone, the phones of the Finnish Nokia, found this year a new owner: Microsoft. The mobile arm of Nokia was handed over to the U.S. tech giant. Nokia continues as a maker of telecom equipment.
Like BlackBerry Nokia was in a not so distant past leader. In the second quarter of 2010, Nokia was the market leader in the market for mobile phones. But the Finns have missed the gear that is used by Apple and Samsung.
The smartphone market has grown at a phenomenal rate. Nokia could not keep up. The collaboration with Microsoft on Windows Phone was an emergency.
Ironically former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop himself back at Microsoft. The Nokia brand disappears, at least in the smartphone market. All the Finns do make simple cell phones, as the name telecom maker Nokia will fade into the background.
3. Chinese invasion smartphone market
end of 2012 already started, now confirmed. Who is doing well in China, the largest smartphone market in the world, automatically scores well on worldwide lists. Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi are just some names of Chinese players who perform well inland.
In the third quarter of 2013, the four major analyst firms agreed on the global top five smartphone manufacturers. Two of them came from China: Huawei and Lenovo. ZTE also previously belonged to the top five.
other players such as LG and Sony stir again. On balance nibbled all the little ones this year to the dominant market share of the Korean Samsung and iPhone maker Apple have together. Took the combined market share in 2013 continued to decline, mainly because Apple drops.
Together, Samsung and Apple are still well above the 40 percent of the smartphone market, but the trend is down.
Smartphones are increasingly becoming a must-have for the masses and that is especially Chinese players better. And Samsung, which is present in every product category. Apple chooses especially for dominance in the more expensive, high-quality segment, even if that comes at the expense of sales volumes.
4. Heads of Steve Jobs: more small than large tablets sold
The late Steve Jobs of Apple, the man who stood at the basis of the launch of the iPad, had a definite opinion about the required sizes of tablet computers. The original iPad, Jobs was the ideal size. A smaller 7-inch tablet was according to him only useful if-he was supplied with sandpaper to make. Fingers of people four times as small
According to Apple founder’s iOS operating system would not come completely out of the paint on a small tablet. The buttons on the screen should not be too small, otherwise you would not be able to swipe and pinch .
niceApple, the tablet market broke open, held hose to the size of the iPad, which has a screen of 9.7 inches. But slowly came smaller tablets from competitors on the market that sold well, such as the Nexus 7 Google and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Consumers appeared to have a smaller, lighter, and above all cheaper tablets. needs Apple saw that finally came in, and in October 2012 with the iPad Mini.
Figures from IDC shows how well sell small tablets compared to their larger counterparts. According to market researcher 124.9 million tablets will be sold with a screen between 7 and 8 inches this year. Tablets of greater than 8 inches is expected to be 96.7 million over the counter.
2017 IDC predicts that the gap between the two formats is even greater. From the small tablets are over four years 218.6 million units, compared with 167.7 million of 8 inches or larger.
However, there is still hope for tablets like the original iPad. The trend could reverse, according to IDC by the increasing popularity of larger smartphones, so-called ‘phablets’. “The emergence of large phones can push consumers toward larger tablets, because the difference between a smartphone and a 6-inch tablet 7 inch is not big enough to justify the purchase. Both of”
5. PC feels pressure rise tablet computer
For many people, laptops and desktop computers are the favorite “work units”. But the rise of the tablet computer it gnaws at the dominance of the PC. When choosing a new device, the tablet wins more often.
In the first quarter of this year it seemed even that the tablet would overtake the PC. in global sales But a mild third quarter know the PC while keeping the time being. Tablet of the body Research firm IDC estimates that this year there are about 385 million desktops and laptops sold together at nearly 230 million tablets. Analysts expect now that the tablet sales in 2015 PC sales will rush over.
6. Google 15 years: party investors
Google in 2013 was fifteen years old. In that period, Google has grown from an obscure research project at Stanford University to a billion company to make millions with it daily.
The key to success is the powerful search technology. Google gave at the launch in 1998, by far the best search results on the nascent web. Instead of looking at what page the search term commonly, the search engine Larry Page and Sergey Brin used a different method to rank sites. Google counts how many times a page is linked. The more that is done, the more important people find the page.
Google is known for its search engine. But at its core it is an advertising company. Google makes tons of money by displaying ads. In search results Although Google has to work to keep up with rapid changes in the advertising market in the shift toward mobile devices such as hard this year, many investors had confidence in the company, as evidenced by the strong price performance. (Click to enlarge)
7. Facebook mobile advertising, Twitter to the fair
Google tried to compensate with a higher number of clicks. decline in the prices of ads that are displayed on PCs in recent quarters That worked, but it seems a palliative. The search engine company has to figure out how to make money with mobile.
more moneyCompetitor Facebook, the largest social networking site, has done just that: 41 percent of the income of the social networking site are now from mobile
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The big voice synthesizer among social networking sites in 2013 was not Facebook, but microblog Twitter.
a carefully hyped IPO with a relatively low introductory rate, Twitter did his fair debut to make a great success. The fact that Twitter is still substantial loss, it could not dampen enthusiasm of investors, already saw the Twitter Tale is at the fair in the last days of 2013 slightly less beautiful.
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