“Much as changed since we developed our criteria and weightings [for mobile devices] four years ago,” Galen Gruman writes for InfoWorld. “We saw an explosion of functionality for much of that period, so the average score climbed regularly — until it was no longer average. And in the last year, there’s been a real slowdown in mobile innovation, creating a plateau in our scores.”
“We saw an explosion of functionality for much of that period, so the average score climbed regularly — until it was no longer average. And in the last year, there’s been a real slowdown in mobile innovation, creating a plateau in our scores,” Gruman writes. “Then there’s been the explosion of services in each platform — Apple’s iCloud and Siri, or Google’s Google Now and Maps, for example — as mobile devices have moved from being stand-alone endpoints to part of a computing fabric in which mobile devices are one endpoint among many. Our old scoring system didn’t anticipate the rise of platform services.”
“We’ve tossed our old scoring system for mobile devices and developed a new one that both resets the average and creates headroom for those areas where we foresee innovation making the most strides,” Gruman writes, “Below, you can see the new scores for the major smartphones and tablets now on the market.”
Much more, including explanations of InfoWorld’s new categories, in the full article here.