Wrapping Up 2018 Tech

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So the year has come and gone! I hope you have already heard the second to last episode of The Apple Worm Podcast on Soundcloud or Apple Podcast App! Every year I do two final podcast and blog episodes: the first is on tech and the second on movies, so here we go.

First, a small but important piece about my thoughts on what I believe happened and was most relevant to MY tech year and hopefully yours too:

1. The cheap-but-awesome smartphone market went from good to great! Phones like the Pocophone by XiaoMi and the One Plus 6T proved to the world that they can play in a price range that Apple does not and dominate enough to impress anyone who has a budget and still wants to get a flagship quality phone.

2. Smart speakers and machine learning technology is the NOW. If anyone ever wondered which technology would be more relevant between Augmented and Virtual Reality, well 2018 really settled that debate. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, whoever you have in your life nowadays have become more capable and more "normal". At first it was weird to ask your phone for stuff when smart assistants were introduced. Now, kids talk to Alexa in their house just as much and as normally as they do with their dogs and parents. I highly recommend the Echo Dot or the Google Home Mini to get yourself started into the machine learning assistant house environment.

3. The best camera is the one you have with you. Portability in the market of photography and videography has brought companies like GoPro to the consumer market exponentially. In response, others like DJI have moved from Osmo Mobile series to the Osmo Pocket which is simply AMAZING, portable, capable and impressively stable. 

A special shoutout to the iPhone XR because out of any of the latest smartphones I have been able to test I am truly impressed by how this "economic" version of the Xs does not cease to impress. Hardware-wise it does way too much with a limited screen and camera department. And that battery life is something abnormally good in terms of sheer milliamp hour capacity.

I have learned so much this year about tech, I've had to broaden my mind in terms of understanding just to be able to compare tech and review it. I wish 2019 is a year of even more knowledge and tech combined with art, music and movies. After all:

Life is the sum of the things you have to do and the ones you love to do.
The challenge is how much they intertwine.

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