ABI Sees Google, Amazon Driving Smartphone Innovation
“Innovation complacency” will cause device makers like Apple, Huawei, Microsoft and Samsung to “lag” behind other tech companies in the “post-smartphone era,” ABI Research reported Wednesday. ABI sees Google and Amazon taking the “lead” and driving innovation for “smartphones and…
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related ecosystems” over the next five to six years: “Without having the heavy burden of legacy systems and hardware, these web-scale companies are in a good position to lead the market into the post-smartphone era.” The four “are not currently as well set up to drive future innovation in the market,” said ABI. “These players are also burdened with legacy establishments in the smartphone business, which give them little flexibility to innovate."