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we only have a few weeks left in the year so on today's show we're reflecting back on 2018 to look at some of Apple's biggest wins and biggest fails of the year we'll start with Apple's own list the company released its best of 2018 roundup with the apps music movies TV shows and more that top their charts around the world now I'm not gonna go through all of it and I'm just gonna mention highlights but you can check out the full list on Apple's newsroom website now the top app of the year went to youtube this year up from second place in 2017 surprisingly Facebook crawled up to number three after what should have been the worst year in history for the social media giant but in terms of games no surprise here apple says the battle royale style games aka fortnight topped it charts in 2018 and while some of you guys were battling it out in the virtual world others took this year to focus inward as according to Apple the biggest app trend for the year was self-care so apps like headspace however when it comes to highest-grossing iPhone apps meaning which ones made the most money that prize went to Netflix according to data from sensor tower published in Business Insider the streaming app made over 790 million dollars thanks to our binge addiction which is probably why Apple is eager to jump on the original content train for next year according to the rumors Apple is getting ready to launch its own video streaming service in the spring now moving on to music Drake dominated the best artist category this year but cardi B's I like it took the top song of the Year award according to Apple and in the TV category it's unclear whether its most-watched or best rated but the number one movie spot went to annihilation while the Americans wand for best show although if it was up to me I probably would have picked Black Panther for best movie and Amazon's marvelous missus nasal as that show so now that we've gone through Apple's best of list I have a few words of my own to give out starting off with the best apple moment of 2018 on August 2nd of this year Apple officially became a trillion-dollar company after a positive earnings report the company's stock hit the magic number of two hundred and seven dollars and five cents putting it at that trillion dollar valuation becoming only the second public company to ever hit the 13 digit mark however that was quickly followed by what a lot of people would call the worst moment when Apple lost the trillion dollar crown about a month later Amazon also briefly reached the trillion dollar milestone but neither of them seems to be on track to close the year at this valuation and now Microsoft is also in the running to close 2018 as the most valuable publicly traded company now obviously the year hasn't ended so we'll have to wait and see how this one plays out now moving on to products my pick for the best Apple product of the year would have to go to the Apple watch series for 2018 will forever be known as the year the Apple watch finally came out from under the iPhone shadow and it actually stole the show at the September launch event it has a sleeker look works completely independently from the phone and it comes with FDA cleared health features that are already helping to save lives by 2019 smartwatches could be mainstream research firm emarketer predicts that one in 10 adults will own a SmartWatch in the US thanks in a large part to these health features on the Apple watch but of course if we're talking about the best product we have to mention the worst product of 2018 which in this case at least in my opinion was the airpower bat because it didn't even make it to the party and unless Apple decides to launch it between the weeks of Christmas and New Year's it has been the biggest tease of 2018 it was rumored to have production issues this year and it may still come at some point in 2019 but we'll have to see about that and my personal favorite team cook moment of the year his response after the Facebook analytic a scandal in an interview with recode Skaar Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes when he asked what he would have done in Mark Zuckerberg shoes his response I wouldn't be in this situation yikes and the worst Tim Cook moment of the year his reaction to the prospect of having a 10% tariff imposed by President Donald Trump on phones and laptops built in China but I want to end today's show by featuring someone who's using Apple products to literally spread the holiday cheer and if you've ever had issues with package fees I recommend you watch this right now the video posted by mark robber on YouTube who kind of has an ironic name for this kind of thing shows him getting the ultimate revenge on package thieves by hiding a glitter fart bomb in a home pod box after getting a package stolen from his front porch the former NASA engineer spent six months developing this trap and the footage captured in the cameras he included are totally worth the time he spent engineering this device because of course there were some lovely people who took the bait so that does it for a 20-18 award show over here but let me know if I missed anything what are some of your picks for the best and worst Apple moments or products of the year hit me up on the comments section below or on Twitter and come back next week for one more Apple core before the end of the year and then it's on to CES happy holidays