Chatting the tech news of the week with Amanda Narcisi of Bold Pittsburgh with a first look at Apple Fitness, Michael Sorg, Katie Dudas and John Chichilla!
Cynthia has two awesome things includng her first experience with the Oculus Quest and the combination of Screentime plus Wifi powerstrip and Gosund smart plugs — her home and devices now remind or force me to go to bed when she should
Carman loves the idea of SNL’s Duolingo for Talking to Children as a concept, and that Duolingo is Pittsburgh’s first unicorn
Uncle Crappy is ready to cut the cord and not miss any of his sports with Hulu and ESPN+
Dudders likes the new Snapchat cat detecting feature!
We look back at our 2019 predictions
We make predictions for 2020!
Carman: Jeff Bezos will recruit more porch pirates to help sell Ring Doorbells.
Crappy: We are NOT ready for a secure presidential election.
Cynthia: Playstation and Xbox console launches will be duds
Dudders: Zuckerberg sells FB. He’s all eff this noise
Chilla: PC sales will plummet
Sorg: Continued growth of alternative shopping methods. Displacing or moving workers ie. AmazonGo, Self Check outs pushing employees for pickups and grocery delivery, etc.
Follow these awesome people on Twitter: Cynthia Closkey (@cynthiacloskey), Mike Pound (@unclecrappy), John Carman (@carmanavenue), Katie Dudas (@kdudders), John Chichilla (@Chilla) and Sorg (@Sorgatron)
Producer Missy and Katie are still away doing important things, so it’s Sorg and Chilla holding the fort down as they talk this week in tech news, including:
There are some new, but familiar faces on the couch this week as Sorg is joined by Krause and Brian to talk about this week’s tech headlines, including:
Brian is sharing some of what he’s working on these days!
Brian is schooling us on how he uses multiple smart devices – in the same room.
It’s that time of year when we get ready to take some time off to spend the holidays with our families. But, that also means that it’s time for our year-end wrap up with our Awesome Thing of the Year items and predictions. This week we’re talking about:
Chilla is sharing Nintendo Switch as one of his Awesome Thing of the Year candidates.
Chilla is also sharing Apple Music on Amazon as his Awesome Thing of the Year.
For those who have followed Chilla’s track record of tech items, he has 7 screens with him in studio for this episode.
Cynthia is sharing Google Home’s partnership with Disney and Little Golden Books as her Awesome Thing of the Year.
Krause is sharing Microsoft Ignite as his professional Awesome Thing of the Year.
Krause is sharing Google Home and home automation as his home version Awesome Thing of the Year.
Uncle Crappy is sharing email as his Awesome Thing of the Year. (Yes, you read that right – email.)
Sorg is sharing his Pokemon GO as his Awesome Thing of the Year.
We’re running down last year’s predictions. Let’s see which ones happened, and which ones didn’t!
Now that we’ve figured out what we got right and wrong in last year’s predictions, it’s time for our 2019 predictions in tech:
Chilla: Video based communications will grow to a point that starts to threaten audio only
Cynthia: Netflix will maintain the lead in SVOD, but it will lose ground outside the US.
Sorg: A new Social Media/Media player will rise
Crappy: AI will become more prevalent in journalism
Krause: I think we will see even more integration when it comes to home automation. People are going to start talking to everything.
