This year proved to be a rollercoaster ride for technology on all fronts.The biggest but ultimately quietest technology story of the year, both in T&T and in the world at large, was the rise of Samsung as a provider of mobile technology. From its former presence as an also-ran producer of me-too phones, the company has built its market profile as a provider of Android powered mobile technology to the point that it's a significant rival to Apple's devices.
In 2013, the company swiftly followed up on the flagship S3 smartphone with the S4 (http://ow.ly/s8cLP) and introduced new tablets and a strong upgrade to its market-sector-defining product, with the Note3.Samsung proved itself fallible with the release of the Gear, a smartwatch that proved to be too little for too much money (http://ow.ly/s8cO5), but fans of the company's devices can expect revisions and improvements to that device and all its products at a rapid pace in 2014.
Microsoft had a good year and a bad year with its flagship operating system, Windows.The style and elegance of its new tile-based launching metaphor scored well on mobile devices, giving Nokia a strong line of smartphones running the Windows Phone 8 (http://ow.ly/s8cXV), and a promising enough lease on life in the sector that Microsoft simply bought the company's mobile phone business.
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