Both Hours: Author Michael Miller is a proven and successful non-fiction writer on a variety of technical, business, and lifestyle-related topics. He has written more than 150 books in the last two decades that have collectively sold more than one million copies! His best-selling books include The Ultimate Web Marketing Guide, YouTube for Business, and Facebook for Grown-Ups for Que Publishing. He has established a reputation for being able to explain difficult concepts to everyday readers in easy-to-understand language.
Topics for tonight’s show include:
– Bitcoin price drop – was over $600 a few months ago, now trading at around $400. Had a particularly disastrous drop last week. Why is this? (It’s ultimately a function of supply vs. demand, but why is supply so high or demand so low? What do the Chinese have to do with it?)
– We could talk about Windows 9 again, but really no new news since last month. Big announcement event is 9/30
– We could also argue about why Apple’s recent announcements were trivial and why Apple is now playing catch-up in the tech market. (iPhone 6/6+ are at least a year behind Android competition; Apple Watch is debuting with zero unique features and extremely high price into an embarrassingly small market; Apple Payments won’t be any more successful than previous efforts from Google and others). Some may hold differing views, but Apple now bores me.
– Plunging on, if Apple is now a tech follower rather than a tech leader, and the same could probably be said for Microsoft and even Google, who is leading the tech markets today? Or is anyone leading? Is tech so much a commodity that there’s nothing left to lead? What is going on, anyway?
– My wife just got a new car – Accord EX-L. Many, many nice techie things on a relatively middle-of-the-road sedan – rear camera, right-side blind spot camera, inadvertent lane change warning, Bluetooth audio streaming, touch screen controls, etc. When did all this in-car tech get mainstream? We’re not talking a high-end BMW here, just a normal mid-priced family car. Pretty neat, I think.