When it comes to predictions for 2018, most financial analysts agree on one thing: one tech firm is likely to become America’s first ever trillion dollar company.  The question is: which one will it be?

Source: BBC Technology News

Date: February 1st, 2018

Link (includes a 2 min 38 sec video): http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42901143

Discussion

1) At “$999 – the iPhone X wouldn’t need to break sales records in order to draw record profits, and convince investors Apple still has the ability to bring innovation to its biggest product line by far.”  It the iPhone X really an innovation, or is it merely an improvement on past iPhones?

2) “Amazon told us it had more than 5,000 people working on developing the technology” for the voice assistant Alexa.  Why is Amazon pushing so aggressively in this direction?