The Apple Worm

Here is an entry that came to mind as soon as I was done with watching 2 documentaries on Netflix over the last few days: Fyre Festival and One of Us. I was thinking about how Netflix started as a distribution app, that had your local movie rental business broke due to the ease with which you could just pay once a month to have a large amount of movies available all day every day. And realized how far ahead of everyone else they are nowadays. In a world where their competition is either in-on the streaming service business or have announced to be preparing to get into the business, they have the true upper hand in terms of what matters most in today's streaming world: content. Netflix has found that the "hottest" intellectual properties (IP's) is not what gives you the upper hand; but rather producing and supporting new and innovative properties. The strategy of having access to new IP's had value at some point in the past when they produced Marvel De...

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 nowad...

So, I just finished watching Daredevil season 3 on Netflix and I could not have more thoughts on my mind to share with your guys! First thing's first: I would rank the daredevil seasons from amazing to good in the following order: 1. Season 2 2. Season 3 3. Season 1 You may wonder why, and this review is the reason why. This season was amazing, it went by quite quickly and it probably impacted me emotionally more than any of the Netflix Marvel series so far. It is a heavy season, it is a smart season and most of all it is a Surprising season in every positive way posible. I still think that season 2 was the most excited I have been for a season and all in all an incredible action packed season. The elektra part did not hold up as much as I wished but the punisher made up for any lost capability. Season 3 has one flaw, the opening makes daredevil too unlikable, too negative, too broken... I honestly believe one of Daredevil's strongest traits as a hero ...

PLEASE READ UNTIL THE END Most people cannot imagine their daily lives and lots of people know not of a life without it.  Some have grown thanks to and others in spite of it. A platform for some and against others. Still largely a mystery to the large majority of us... I have sat for minutes and hours just trying to truly understand the seemingly endless possibilities. Some have lost their life, some try to avoid and clearly fear it. I have lived short enough to see the explosion and take-over, I have hated and loved it... And yet here I am, living on it. I wish everyone would take a look at their weekly report of internet usage on all devices. Saw themselves walking through their life, one screen at a time... I wish the connectivity someday became closeness.  The internet got to 50 million users in about 4 years... Apps and the App Store reached that same number in less than 18 months... My point is... that I love watching technology enrich lives, and...

Let us walk back to April 24th 2015 when Tim Cook said that "there's one more thing..." The original Apple Watch (as I mentioned way back when) was most definitely a first generation exploratory device. Apple shot everything at the consumer market and saw what stuck with us. Of course apple freaks would buy them, but the secret was in finding what the rest of the market the normal consumer, would think of it. A lot of features that where introduced at first have either been eliminated completely or have become the most important feature. Now, 3 years later from that day in which some saw potential and some saw chaos the Apple Watch has become the number one WATCH (not just smart watch) in the world! I have been using my new series 4 AppleWatch for almost a week, some days more intensively than others, but I am so impressed and in awe that I had to write out my thoughts before the week is over so that people who are about to or have just got their watch know the ...

Yes! The title was on purpose... Let me explain (please read to the end): I just want to say I TOLD YOU SO! I knew and predicted weeks and weeks before in the podcast and days before in this very blog that there would be click-bait, spotlight searching, horrible excused people talking about how boring, predictable, not innovative the apple keynote has become... It sickens me to no end to see them write some sort of excuse for their introduction: "I have covered apple events since the first iPhone" "I have been reporting about Apple since..." "I remember the Apple of old"... etc etc. Who cares? You were and continue to be no one in terms of the Apple radar of significance! To them you are 1 customer, ONE! No more no less, same respect as all other Apple customers deserve but same amount of significance: ONE. People let the ego get to their head. You have been to other Apple events? Do you want a medal or a trophy?! The phrase "the leaks fr...

I have always been very vocal about the people I admire and the things I love.  Today is no exception. Imagine meeting someone and seeing insecurity in their eyes. Imagine instilling in their life laughter and smiles and feeling like somehow someway you are able to take their mind off their problems, their sadness, their life. Imagine that person comes back and actually enjoys your company, makes you a part of their day to day, enjoys your stupidity and craziness, finds comfort in your hugs and want nothing more in exchange for those hugs more than just company and laughter. One day that person did not just become stronger, she also grew funnier and more confident. NO I will not and am not taking credit for any of it. I have become more of a spectator to the one girl I once I knew and spoke with every week at least 3 times through FaceTime as she confessed her inner demons and insecurities and left herself wide open just to realize that deep down, I was ...