Probably because Obammie’s “climate change” hoax will result in people having nowhere to plug them in for recharge.
So what? That's not anything like a useful fact.
Within 5 years? I don’t think so. Reminds me of Obama saying just go invent something as if it’s trivial.
I know people who refuse to give up their flip phones so I doubt this.
I doubt it. But I have noticed, with my latest phone purchase, that I can’t imagine smart phones getting much better...without some sort of breakthrough. In particular, I think the durability (especially glass) has been greatly improved. So I plan to have this phone for a long time...so I could see a drop in sales.
A bizarre conclusion. It may be exchanged in favor of some hot new technology - which would have to show up next year to have enough time to persuade most to dump their smartphones. Not sure at this point what could conceivably _more_ convenient and info-dense as a pocket-sized tablet; VR is poised to explode, but is a “sit down and shut off the world” device, not a quick-glance format; contact-lens displays are in the works but a good 10 years from viable for mass use; watches can have the information density but insufficient real estate. It’s taken some 30 years to go from first tablet prototype to “everyone has one”; no other tech has 20+ years of development underway verging on mass application for mobile use.
Predictions about future technology are almost always wrong. People keep inventing things that no one else has thought of.
Wearables? Implants? The Mark?
The ‘Smart Phones’ tend to not be very good phones. I can see a divergence back to old text and talk phones and separate tablets or wearables for data.
The old "many people believe" trick. Well..."many people" will be wrong. Not happening. 20-30? Maybe....but there are friends of mine who still have there 10 year old cells. They slowly get smart phones when their old ones go tango uniform.
Remember...the ice caps were supposed to disappear in 5 years. How's that working out?
Yet another poorly written headline
The Smartphone will die out when it is replaced with an implantable communication device that will allow people to access the Internet 24/7 and will allow them to buy and sell.
If I don’t have a smartphone, I can’t do business, and no I don’t want to have a chip in my brain if that’s what they’re getting at.
Where’s my Flying Car?
some idiot walks off the edge of a cliff while texting.
Gubmint declares smartphones are hazardous to our health and bans them.
Here's my technological desire: a freaking phone screen that won't crack from normal use - nothing short of smacking it hard with a brick for drilling it with a tungsten carbide bit will affect it. Think you can do that, phone companies? This built-in obsolescence crap (as in products DESIGNED TO BREAK) is NOT going over well, let me tell you.
OK, so the smart phone goes away.
Mobile communications devices with access to the internet are not going away.
Call ‘em what you will.
ha, at first glance, I read your headline as:
Stephanopolous will die out within five years”
I thought...”well, bye”.
lol
For them to die in 5 years the replacement would not only have to be out but popular now. So no. I do think eventually the smart watch and/or glasses will win out, but not until they’re able to stand alone.