Where will wearables be?
Opinion is not yet settled over how quickly wearables will start to have an effect on the market, but analysts agree that they will be a significant part of the expanding computing environment. “Phones and wearable devices are now part of an expanded computing environment that includes such things as consumer electronics and connected screens in the workplace and public space,” says David Cearley, vice president & Gartner Fellow. He argues the overall environment “will need to adapt to the requirements of the mobile user. This will continue to raise significant management challenges for IT organisations as they lose control of user endpoint devices. It will also require increased attention to user experience design”.
“SDN is at a pivotal moment in time. There’s been a lot of discussion and people are beginning to deploy this stuff in anger. SDN is a broad brush and it’s a multi-layered challenge” – Damian Saunders, Citrix
The IEEE Computing Society highlights Apple’s entry into the wearables market next year as a “potential game-changer” as companies vie to develop new devices, applications and protocols for a market which Juniper Research expects to account for $53 billion in sales by 2019. But IDC expects that while there will be huge innovation in wearables, it won’t be matched by an explosion in sales. Instead, it believes phablets and mobile application development will help drive mobile device and app sales of $484 billion in 2015, equivalent to 40% of IT spending growth.
In the longer term, IDC predicts 40% of wearables will have evolved into a viable consumer mass market alternative to smart phones within the next five years.
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