2011: what won't happen

Prediction ain’t easy. But that doesn’t stop many wouldbe pundits from trying to read the 2011 tea leaves, with sometimes hilarious results. The antidote? ABI Research’s annual take on what’s not going to happen next year

2011 won’t be the year of mobile marketing and advertising
2011 will NOT be the year cloud gaming dampens console sales
PC vendors won't challenge Apple's early leadership in media tablets
Android will NOT begin to eclipse Apple in 2011.
BlackBerry will NOT be eclipsed by enterprise iPhones
Demand for devices with embedded mobile broadband modems will NOT overtake demand for external modems
The carrier community will NOT handle the traffic explosion!
LTE consumer femtocells are unlikely to be deployed in 2011
The ITU still won’t have the right to define 4G in 2011
TD-LTE will NOT kill off Wimax in 2011
Huawei will NOT become the #1 wireless infrastructure vendor in 2011
Chinese authorities will NOT be issuing 4G licenses in 2011
Carrier Ethernet for backhaul will not see a substantial boom in 2011, and legacy backhaul won’t completely disappear
Home networking is NOT going to move to a single standard in 2011
Smart meter rollouts will not lead to adoption of smart Wireless sensor network (WSN) devices connecting to the meters within the home
M2M markets will NOT achieve significant standardization in 2011
Electric cars will remain a novelty in 2011
Google TV is NOT dead on arrival, and yes, it will live past 2011
US consumers won’t be giving up their wallets in favor of NFC-capable smartphones in 2011