In every year, there are winners and losers:
companies, devices, operating systems. Here’s our
look at some of the biggest successes and failures
of 2012.
Winners:
Android--: What more can you say about Android? With 75 percent market share in the third quarter of 2012, the free mobile operating system from Google
looks poised to take over the world.
Samsung-- : Not many companies sell 55 million smartphones in a quarter. Samsung did, and the company will
probably do it again.
Galaxy S III--: Samsung is hot in large part due to its top
smartphone, the Galaxy S III. With over 18 million units shipped in the third quarter, and 30 million shipped in five months, it’s easy to see why.
iPhone 5--: Sure, it was Time’s gadget of the year. But more importantly, iPhone 5 catapulted Apple back into the smartphone leadership position, at least in the U.S.
iPad mini--: We called it immediately: light, portable, awesome, expensive. And it even looked better up close and person in reviews. But we had no clue it would become one of Apple’s best-selling iPads. And now that it’s probably going retina in April/May, it’s just getting better.
YouTube--: YouTube continues to be the online leader, by far,
in online video with 800 million visitors and billion- view channels created by individuals and brands. Despite getting the boot from iOS6, YouTube just continues to grow, with 25 times the video streams of its nearest competitor.
Twitter--: 2012 is the year that Twitter went mainstream, reaching 500 million users mid-summer, and just recently announcing 200 million monthly active users.
Instagram--: With a sale initially priced at almost $1.3 billion and an exploding user count, not even a tone-deaf terms-of-service change that spurred a class action lawsuit and a possible exodus of some users can keep Instagram off our winner list.
Google--: Android is hot — 75 percent market share hot. Search is still a massive strength for the iconic
company that runs an ad 30 billion times each and every day. And so Google makes over $100 million a day … and hits our list of hot companies in 2012.
ARM --: With the vast majority of the chips in smartphones
running ARM processors, ARM has people
wondering whether the mobile juggernaut will challenge Intel for CPU dominance. That’s still a stretch … but not nearly what it was just
a few years ago.
Reddit--: With 3.8 billion page views and 46 million unique visitors in October — double the previous year’s numbers — Reddit is continuing its torrid growth.
loosers:
RIM Blackberry:
Sony (PS3, PS Vita)
HP
Google nexus Q
Apple Maps :)
Groupon
Intel
3DTV
Zynga
Nokia
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companies, devices, operating systems. Here’s our
look at some of the biggest successes and failures
of 2012.
Winners:
Android--: What more can you say about Android? With 75 percent market share in the third quarter of 2012, the free mobile operating system from Google
looks poised to take over the world.
Samsung-- : Not many companies sell 55 million smartphones in a quarter. Samsung did, and the company will
probably do it again.
Galaxy S III--: Samsung is hot in large part due to its top
smartphone, the Galaxy S III. With over 18 million units shipped in the third quarter, and 30 million shipped in five months, it’s easy to see why.
iPhone 5--: Sure, it was Time’s gadget of the year. But more importantly, iPhone 5 catapulted Apple back into the smartphone leadership position, at least in the U.S.
iPad mini--: We called it immediately: light, portable, awesome, expensive. And it even looked better up close and person in reviews. But we had no clue it would become one of Apple’s best-selling iPads. And now that it’s probably going retina in April/May, it’s just getting better.
YouTube--: YouTube continues to be the online leader, by far,
in online video with 800 million visitors and billion- view channels created by individuals and brands. Despite getting the boot from iOS6, YouTube just continues to grow, with 25 times the video streams of its nearest competitor.
Twitter--: 2012 is the year that Twitter went mainstream, reaching 500 million users mid-summer, and just recently announcing 200 million monthly active users.
Instagram--: With a sale initially priced at almost $1.3 billion and an exploding user count, not even a tone-deaf terms-of-service change that spurred a class action lawsuit and a possible exodus of some users can keep Instagram off our winner list.
Google--: Android is hot — 75 percent market share hot. Search is still a massive strength for the iconic
company that runs an ad 30 billion times each and every day. And so Google makes over $100 million a day … and hits our list of hot companies in 2012.
ARM --: With the vast majority of the chips in smartphones
running ARM processors, ARM has people
wondering whether the mobile juggernaut will challenge Intel for CPU dominance. That’s still a stretch … but not nearly what it was just
a few years ago.
Reddit--: With 3.8 billion page views and 46 million unique visitors in October — double the previous year’s numbers — Reddit is continuing its torrid growth.
loosers:
RIM Blackberry:
Sony (PS3, PS Vita)
HP
Google nexus Q
Apple Maps :)
Groupon
Intel
3DTV
Zynga
Nokia
FEEL FREE TO SHARE AND ADD MORE.... :)
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