In this week's special episode of Industry Focus: Tech, Dylan Lewis talks with fool.com's Dan Kline about the last 10 years in consumer technology -- the trends that flopped and faded away, and the ones that became status quo. The guys look back on the rapid adoption of the smartphone (and the total redefinition of what we think of as a smartphone); how T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) changed how much we spend on those phones; how Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) changed cable and brought us to the overabundance of a la carte options we have today; how Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) dropped the ball on digital assistants, and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) picked it up; some once-promising technologies that kind of just fizzled out; and much more.
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