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2015: The year mobile become boring

December 30, 2015

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Not to be a Grinch, but the mobile industry wouldn’t be on my Christmas list if I were Santa. Not because it’s been bad, but because it’s been boring. The sad truth is nothing really interesting debuted this whole year, and there’s no evidence that 2016 will be any better.

Tablet sales have been sinking for a while, after a red-hot streak for their first few years. Like a PC, a tablet is good for several years, and there’s been no meaningful change to the genre lately. Apple even skipped updating its main iPad model, the iPad Air, this year. Its iPad Mini gained a speed bump (yawn), and its overhyped, oversized, derivative iPad Pro debuted (Apple copying Microsoft and Samsung).

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