Recently had interesting private talk. Several telecom companies and top smartphone manufacturers had few meetings about new dangerous trends spotted by one private research.

Advanced part of EU and US societies(part usually going where masses go in few years) are making dangerous decisions lately - their internet usage from smartphones started to drop, their desktop and notebook usage increased, TV usage kept dropping fast, torrents usage almost doubled, companies also considered very dangerous small drop in cloud services and free services usage, google search also got some usage drop.

But most dangerous are two things. Percentage of individuals in this groups looking for latest smartphone or just any smartphone replacement dropped almost 50% in last year. Also percentage of individuals in this group who consider voice assistant as privacy danger increased three fold in same time.

2019 year trend will be enormous pressure for you to buy voice assistant. Both Samsung and Apple think about including them for free with all top smartphones, as well as pay up to 50% of their cost to retail as bonuses.