Best of 2009: This year will be most remembered as…
This year will be most remembered as:
- The year we all survived – well at least mostly.
- Everyone opened an app store. Applications continued the insane momentum they started last year, but this year, no one was satisfied with just an app. Every handset maker, carrier, operating system and third-party wanted to own the storefront to shop them.
- The year everyone focused on broadband stimulus and nobody got any.
Keep reading to see the rest of our responses, as well as the best from our readers…
- The year Nortel died.
- Netbooks proved there is room in the MIDdle. Intel’s invented Mobile Internet Devices might have flopped, but netbooks proved there are data devices consumers will pay extra for.
- Everyone got wise to the smart-grid opportunity.
- The year the smartphone, the mobile app, the app store and mobile data services blew up overnight – on some networks in some cities, unfortunately, literally.
- The year the real iPhone challengers emerged aka Android makes a dent on the iPhone…almost.
- Prepaid’s time to shine. The worse the economy got in 2009, the better prepaid providers fared. Competition got more intense, the prices got lower and the handsets got more high-tech. Now the market is hoping its success won’t continue to be inversely related to the economy…if it improves, that is.
- The year the word 4G first appeared in a TV commercial.
Best Reader Response: Advancements in increasing bandwidth and reducing cost
Honorable Mention: iPhone and Android taking over and home telecom users going down
Coming next: Top Scapegoats of 2009.
FYI: During the last three weeks of 2009 — a year to forget in many respects — we’ll roll-out our Best & Worst of 2009 lists with contributions not only from our editors, but also from our readers as well.
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