Episode 18: Digital Assistants Spell Change for Hardware and Services

In this episode, Shawn DuBravac and Ross Rubin look at the rising role of the hearable within consumer tech ecosystems and what they mean as companies such as Apple increasingly embrace services. Plus, we’ll discuss how Apple’s focus on privacy could pay off should it become a major  healthcare player and some of the experiments by major and fringe smartphone vendors in advance of Mobile World Congress later this month.