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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Linda calm hello internet and welcome back to another episode of ask the Buffalo the show where you can ask me ashley's gather any question you might have in the wide world of technology every tuesday we put up a call for questions on TechnoBuffalo calm you can leave your question in the post comments otherwise you can send them to me anytime of the day or night on twitter at TechnoBuffalo or ashley sceva just use the hashtag ask the be so i can see it usually answer between three and five questions every episode so let's get going at it's a Christian one asks why isn't anyone challenging the ipod market it seems like samsung was the only one a few years ago and Microsoft gave up this is a really interesting question i've actually been getting a lot of questions about when's the new ipod coming out and all these other questions about ipods and competitors and things like that and really the answer is is personal music players are a little bit cannibalized by phones so Microsoft didn't really give up they just started making Lumia devices and they started making windows phones and samsung also same thing they didn't really it's it's one of those weird industries where it's kind of dying off because people say you know well for 179 dollars i can buy a moto g and that's a personal music player and also a phone i don't really even know a lot of people anymore with an ipod so for me I think a lot of people are just using their phones at team oryany asks our curved displays smart phones and tvs really required i mean how does it add value to the user also another great question now we were just at CES and curved televisions i will fully admit standing in front of a hundred and five inch television that's curved is a sight to behold it's gorgeous it's amazing to look at what we've been told is it adds value by putting the viewer the same distance from different parts of the TV if you're sitting in the center for me personally I don't actually see the need to have curved smartphones unless they're flexible screens which we you know have sort of kind of heard rumors about and maybe seen a couple pictures there but nothing is actually in production for flexible I mean that I would say would add value to user because obviously then the phone becomes a lot more durable but curved smartphones I just don't know I'm not on board yet with that because i feel like the screen is way too small to add any kind of immersion or give any extra viewing value to somebody who would buy it ash ra asks what exactly the job is it called being a reviewer of tech products and doing what you guys do at TechnoBuffalo what courses would you need to take to get hired at a place who does things like you guys this is a great question a lot of people actually want to know stuff like this like what exactly are titles well here's the honest answer all of us have really different titles and do really different things even though we all kind of have been known to write for the site so somebody like Brandon for example writes for the site all the time but me on the other hand i'm a senior content producer and so while I focus more on video sometimes you might see me write something on the website it really depends on what you want to do and honestly I think that really truly in my heart of hearts if you love doing something you can bring it into a hobby that you enjoy so for example I love hosting and I love video and I'm able to sort of translate those skills into working for TechnoBuffalo and host and make video for the site so whatever it is that you like to do whether it be writing maybe you want to go to business school you want to help run a website maybe you really like social media you can use those skills and go to school for those things and then translate them into working for a site like technobuffalo at sea degraffenreid says do you think it is more likely to see Apple released a SmartWatch or smart TV this year definitely a SmartWatch I think we should just not bury the lead on this I think the SmartWatch is the obvious choice for a few different reasons number one we've heard a lot more rumors about the SmartWatch of course we've been hearing about this Apple smart TV for a while now but they're really haven't been any kind of concrete pieces of evidence that it's anywhere beyond a lot of negotiating and and this brings me to my next point which is Apple smart TV is going to take a lot of content providers to get on board and license their content I'll of the things that is sort of weird about the apple TV is that it doesn't have offerings like for example amazon prime video you'd be able to get that on a set-top box like a roku but not on apple TV and i think apple is really having that sort of tough time negotiating with Hollywood studios number one because Hollywood is notoriously scared of moving forward and technology and innovation I think it freaks them out that we may not be watching TV traditionally anymore in the next few years but secondly the other part of it is is that there's a lot of licensing deals that go into and a lot of livelihoods that go into business deals like this so I think the smart TV is still a little ways out seeing how Apple has handled mp3s and music and also books has sort of been a point of hesitation on behalf of the studios so that's my guess I can't say for sure so that's why I would say definitely will see a SmartWatch before a smart TV I gotta take one second to thank our friends and sponsors at lynda.com you can learn it at Linda calm it's an online learning company with more than 77,000 video tutorials that teach software creative and business skills membership starts at just 25 bucks a month and you get 24 7 access to high-quality video courses taught by expert instructors with actual real-world advice videos range from bite size tutorials all the way to comprehensive courses in subjects like web design programming 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