"1. Continued Android Adoption
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8. Greater Awareness of Privacy Issues"
"Several popular mobile apps, including Pandora, MySpace and Paper Toss, were caught secretly passing personal information including age, gender and location"
--MediaShift . 10 Mobile Trends in 2011: Android Boom, Tablets Multiply | PBS
Having such a strong proprietary-driven mentality is playing against Apple. People like open standards and ease of access. With the increased use of mobile phones privacy becomes a serious business now. The cell phone is a very private thing. It has your friends, family, personal information, and your current location. It does not get any more intimate than that for technology. If it gets hacked it can really affect your life.
A great technology innovation is coming from Disney. Never knew they had a technology research division like this:
"An innovative tactile feedback technology, TeslaTouch now enables you to feel what you are touching on touch screen"
WOW! Cool :-)