Technology has never been more important than it is today, and it has shaped 2012 in ways that few could have imagined at the beginning.
2012 saw some odd trends too – you may have heard a lot of doom about
BlackBerry, but this morning, just as it announces new results, its shares are
basically unchanged year-on-year; Apple’s are up 40 per cent. Google, meanwhile,
has expanded into areas that see it challenge Apple much more directly, from
music to tablets, while Samsung, the world’s most popular brand, has finally
called a truce in the lawsuits it’s fought with Apple. Finally, too, 4G launched
to make mobile phone networks faster, although 2013 is when it will become
mainstream.
