WSJ's Mossberg Predictions for 2013

Of the several 2013 prediction lists about which I've posted, the one from The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg in his All Things D(igital) column/blog is the most apt one concerning personal technology.

2013: Talk Gets Cheaper, TV Gets Smarter

JANUARY 1, 2013 AT 6:32 PM PT

Personal technology never stops changing. Some new products and services are game changers, like Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Others are clever twists or refinements, like each successive version of Google’s Android platform, which gets better and better. Others are bold gambles, like Microsoft’s new Windows 8, which hopes to combine both a tablet experience and a traditional PC environment in one operating system. But there’s always something new, from large companies and small ones.

So here are a few things consumers will likely see in technology in 2013. Many of these began to take shape in the past year, but will be stronger trends in the new year.

Mossberg sees

• Tablets trending over laptops. 
• Integration of hardware and software -- not just Apple as a long-time practitioner of this, but now Microsoft and Google, as well. 
• "Network TVs." 
• Cheaper smartphones. 
• More choice of music players. 
• Fitness and health monitors. 
• Internet-controlled home devices.  

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