The Biggest Tech Stories of 2022
Don't worry core Repair Outlet fans, our 2022 Round-Up is coming very soon to outline how our year has been! But to give you guys another round-up of the year, we've collected a list of what we feel have been the biggest tech stories of 2022! So, before 2023 arrives and hopefully brings us another bright future for technology, let's cap off what were the biggest stories of the year.
Elon Musk's Twitter Escapade
Probably the biggest story to take place is Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, which continues to produce headlines across all the tech news websites. If you've kept up with our Repair Round-Up newsletters, it's been tough to keep him and Twitter away from them. His Twitter deal was officially finalised in October 2022, with an owner turnover that’s been as publicly thunderous as we’ve seen.
The Teenager Tracking Elon Musk’s Flights
Whilst Twitter has been causing Mr Tesla a migraine, it wasn't the smoothest of beginnings either for the South African businessman. Jack Sweeney was 19 years old at the time when he started creating Twitter bots that would track the flights of billionaires and celebrities including Elon Musk. Musk offered the young man $5000 back in January, telling the kid in a message that “I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase.” Want to explore more about a wide range of Refurbished iPhone Unlocked Mobiles.
While social media giants Facebook and Twitter faced their struggles this year, TikTok continued to rise, doubling its revenues to at least $10 billion this year, compared to 2021. If you're not aware of what TikTok is, it resembles a replacement for the popular short-lived social media platform Vine.
Netflix was the one who kicked away Blockbuster and brought us streaming films and television shows directly to our TVs. But nowadays with competition from Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Disney Plus & more, they reported a loss in subscribers in April 2022, the first time in a decade. Some put it down to its increase in costs, which Netflix tried to counteract by setting up its Netflix ad-supported plan which came recently in November 2022.
A regulatory change announced recently by the EU will force nearly all gadgets to use USB-C connections starting in 2024, including Apple's Lightning connector. USB-C is expected to first appear on the iPhone 15 in 2023. It is also expected that the US will follow suit with a standard charging cable, with USB-C becoming the default, but it is not likely to happen shortly.
2022 - Year of the Gaming Handheld
Thanks to the Nintendo Switch and the popularity of mobile games, “handheld” gaming never quite went away, even after the heyday of the DS and PSP. Nintendo continues to sell Switches hand over fist and has been claimed as arguably the best console to ever be released. In November, the console/handheld hybrid hit 114 million total lifetime units sold.
While COVID-19 lockdowns kept many of us home, technology enabled us to continue working. Once the pandemic was under control, companies asked their employees to return to work in 2022. It was announced in April that Google would return to their employees, whereas Apple set a September deadline. In contrast, 64% said they'd rather quit than go back to work full-time.
AI’s ability to dabble in the distinctly human provinces of painting and creating visual art, as well as completely rewrite has been limited until this year. Just about 86% of businesses have said that AI is becoming a “mainstream technology” at their company in 2022 and will continue to be something used more and more as time goes on. Heavy criticism comes from the lack of need for humans with the use of AI.
The Inventor of The GIF Dies
GIFs have become a fluent language in a variety of group chats for their universal usage in many conversations and without doubt, are an important part of online culture. Sadly though, in March the creator of the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, died following complications of Covid-19. Working at CompuServe in the ‘80s, he programmed the GIF to create “high-quality, high-resolution graphics” in colour. Eventually, it would be the format used to create looping images online. If you had any lingering doubts about how to pronounce it, Wilhite himself had also clarified the pronunciation. He said the following: “It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘Jif.’ End of story.” If you want to know more detail, please visit - https://repairoutlet.co.uk/blogs/news/the-biggest-tech-stories-of-2022
