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The sign for Hi Tech Service on Nolensville Road, between an auto repair shop and a mattress depot, couldn’t look more low-tech if it tried. With black letters on a white cinder block building, it looks older than the flip-phone or Netscape Navigator, because it is. “We’ve been here 33 years,” says founder and proprietor Tom Brucker sitting at the counter in the long building’s reception area. “The front area is the world’s smallest stereo store.and then the rest is all service.”
For decades, Brucker has been Nashville’s go-to guy to repair the gear that plays our music at home: amplifiers, turntables, loudspeakers, tape decks, CD players and beyond. On a recent visit, there were hundreds of those components on long shelves in multiple rooms and down a long spine-like hallway, standing in ranks on their sides. “We ve ended up storing quite a bit of the overflow and consignment,” Brucker said. “I probably got carried away with it.”
As a lawsuit between the gaming powerhouse behind Fortnite and Apple heads to court, its outcome could mean big changes for how consumers buy content on their devices, according to experts.
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Next month, Amazon will launch its first PC-like product with a version of the Amazon Fire tablet bundled with a keyboard; it includes one-year of Microsoft Office 365 use. At a price well below $300, this product provides an interesting alternative to offerings like the iPad Pro and Surface Go, both of which are more expensive.
This new Fire Tablet 10+ has things like wireless charging that low-end products often donât get and it comes preloaded with Amazonâs core offerings and access to a curated app store with a subsection of Android apps.
But, if you put the Microsoft Virtual Desktop on the device and connected it to a robust cloud solution like, oh, I donât know, AWS, and then you provided more extensive screen offerings, Amazon could jump early to where everyone else seems to be going: the Virtual Desktop. And, because they have no PC installed base, this move wouldnât put any existing products for Amazon or current customers at risk.
Bitcoin is now 12 years old. Although it has managed to fend off all newcomers to date, its time at the top may be coming to an end. That’s according to Fahad Kamal, the Investment Chief at private bank Kleinwort Hambros.
Kamal likens the situation to the tech boom of the late nineties going into the new millennium. Not only was it a time of massive capital inflow, as we see now in crypto, but history shows that many pioneering projects faded as the competition got better. From a technical standpoint, Bitcoin is a dinosaur compared to the latest third-generation blockchains. While nothing matches its network effect at present, is Bitcoin on a downward path?