The first day of Orange Blogger Bus Tour started with a presentation by the CEO of Orange Labs San Francisco, Georges Nahon, which had some interesting information about the present and future of technology in Silicon Valley and beyond. Listed below are the most important points presented by him, and among them I think it should be taken into account that in the USA the biggest investments in IT are made in Silicon Valley, that only a few of the most important companies here have a capitalization of the stock market value of 1000 billion dollars (Apple being in first place), that Apple and Amazon are on the right track, that RIM and Nokia are not doing very well and that Facebook and Google will follow in the footsteps of Yahoo and be set aside for other better and more interesting services.
- A few years ago, no one believed that Apple would become such an important player on the market of mobile terminals and on the telecom market;
- Orange invests considerable amounts of money in research and development, Orange Labs is just one of the projects that produce new and innovative technologies;
- New people are the most appreciated because they bring new ideas to companies;
- Investments of 3.2 billion dollars were made in Silicon Valley last year, they add up to 46% of the total investments made at the national level;
- The software industry is extremely important, the biggest investments are made in it, and most of them end up in the Bay Area, San Francisco;
- IT products have the largest investments in the entire industry, everything is again concentrated in the Bay Area;
- The most important Silicon Valley companies have a market capitalization value of more than 1000 trillion dollars
- Encyclopedia Britannica stops publishing books after 244 years'
- Advertising revenues of American newspapers have dropped dramatically in recent years;
- Big companies have to make the transition to new models to survive, among them are Nintendo, Zynga, Rovio;
- RIM has big problems, it could be bought by a competitor before going bankrupt;
- Nokia continues to lay off employees, closes production facilities and some research and development facilities;
- Apple and Amazon are going in the right direction, the share price is increasing thanks to the products launched on the market;
- Television manufacturers are turning against smartphone manufacturers who use their terminals to watch online multimedia content;
- In 2012, Americans saw more movies online than in theaters, they buy fewer DVDs;
- People no longer buy mobile phones just to talk on them, they expect the terminal to perform a lot of functions;
- People use smartphones less and less for talking;
- Post PC era has begun, PCs are replaced by mobile terminals;
- Fixed Ethernet connections start to disappear, they are joined by DVDs and HDDs, the replacements are Wi-Fi connections, online streaming systems and SSDs;
- Siri and systems that recognize gestures or voice commands are becoming more and more important for users;
- Apple is currently the most powerful company in the US and perhaps in the world;
- Facebook registers 2.7 billion likes per day and 300 million uploaded pictures;
- Twitter generates 1 TB of data per day;
- There are more phones than people in the world;
- Sillicon valley is dominated by only a few large companies;
- The acquisitions of small companies replace the research and development effort;
- The patent war is supported by the acquisition of companies with important patents;
- Mobile traffic doubles compared to 2011, it represents 10% of the total recorded in the world;
- Last year more mobile terminals were sold than PCs;
- 6 billion mobile connections were registered at the end of last year;
- 30% of people on the globe have access to mobile internet;
- Most of those who use a smartphone surf the Internet through applications and not through browsers;
- User data is becoming more and more important for companies that try to accumulate as much as possible in the shortest periods of time;
- The data must be carefully filtered;
- Apple has lost a good part of the market share regarding the online streaming of video content;
- 100 million users in the US watch movies on the Internet;
- Smart TVs will come with applications, they will become more and more important for users;
- The most accessed website by those who watch TV is Facebook;
- The applications will control the users dependent on the information provided by them;
- Apple, Facebook and Amazon continue to promote mobile applications instead of websites, and this generates fragmentation among the information offered to users;
- Soon the world will be dominated by 4G LTE networks and Wi-Fi networks with speeds up to 1.3 Gbits;
- Truly great companies only appear once every 5 years;
- Many important companies, including Google and Facebook, will be "yahooed", meaning they will become less important in the lives of users;
- Patent wars could destroy innovation.
To the interesting information above I make a supplement with DocPal, Swoop si OMAD, 3 extremely interesting systems designed and developed inside Orange Labs in San Francisco.
