According to foreign media reports, in 2012, smartphones showed three trends: patent wars continued, mobile payment encountered development bottlenecks, and mobile security was worrying.
The patent battle continues
For the year-end inventory of global smartphone development in 2012, the patent war must be mentioned. 2012 was the year when the mobile phone patent war broke out-hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits for claims, notices for suspension of orders, and countless patent baits.
Apple and Samsung ignited the fuse of this patent litigation battle. In this battle, Apple won temporarily and won a $ 1 billion in compensation awarded by the court. At the same time, Apple also aimed the patent war spear at HTC and Motorola. Nokia and RIM also filed court cases due to patent disputes.
The situation of the global patent war is out of control, and even the most experienced patent experts have difficulty tracking these litigations around the world. One of the main reasons why there are so many patent battles is that patent bait is doing it. Patent bait companies own and control a large number of patents, but in fact they are not companies that use these patents to produce any products. They "make money" by buying a large number of patents from other companies and then making profits through patent lawsuits.
There is no doubt that the patent war will continue to exist in 2013 and beyond.
Mobile payment encounters development bottleneck
Someone once thought that mobile payment will become mainstream in 2012.
In this year, Google Wallet, Square card reader and POS system, and Near Field Communication (NFC) platform appeared. Shoppers can use smartphones instead of cash and credit cards for mobile payments when spending in retail stores. Some observers have predicted that mobile payments will become mainstream in 2012.
NFC has become synonymous with "technology that does not solve any problems" in the field of mobile payments. Cash and credit / debit card payment methods have been integrated into people's trading society, and it is difficult to be replaced. If you want to make mobile payment mainstream, you can only wait until NFC terminals become ubiquitous and widely accepted by the society.
The progress of mobile payment in 2012 reflects the construction of mobile payment infrastructure in physical retail stores, rather than just staying in the theoretical perspective of mobile payment. In other words, when the mobile market matures, companies like Square, LevelUp, and Dwolla can finally win. But the scale of these companies is too small. For a small company like LevelUp, the scale of his business depends on its limited resources. In the long run, large, well-funded companies will have the potential to control the mobile payment market because they can expand in a meaningful manner.
Mobile security is worrying
According to data from mobile security company Lookout, as of October 2012, the global mobile malware infection rate was about 1%. The number is small, but the impact is large because the number of smartphone users reached 1 billion in 2012. The 1% infection rate means that 10 million smartphones are infected worldwide (Lookout only counts Android phones).
Kaspersky Lab, a security company, pointed out that in the third quarter of 2012, 9,000 new Android mobile phone malware appeared. Although this number is smaller than the 14,000 in the second quarter, the malware on Android phones has increased significantly for three consecutive months. So much malware will pose a threat to mobile phone manufacturers and consumers.
In 2012, mobile malware entered a mature stage. Lookout predicts that from 2012 to the end of 2013, 18 million Android smartphones worldwide will be infected with malware. The battle between mobile security manufacturers and malware makers will become more intense in 2013.
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