The technology year is over and it ’s been a better 12 months for some of technical school ’s bragging name calling than others . Here ’s a run down to those toasting to a peachy class and those beaming to see the back of it .
In a yr that the big name like Apple , Google , and Samsung shoot par by pitch on what was expected of them and Sony continued its momentum , we are n’t handing them major laurels or stick the boot in .
There were batch of others who flourished and flounder during an eventful 12 months where the technical school world took a tour towards an by artificial means intelligent time to come .
Winners
OpenAI and ChatGPT
2023 the coming out yr for AI in the consumer kingdom , but one companionship stood above others . OpenAI ’s ChatGPTbecame a household name and Microsoft is practically staking its integral future tense on OpenAI ’s tech ( and owns 49 % of the company ) in rescript to get a run on Google ’s tantamount Bard .
Countless other apps and service are incorporating ChatGPT into their apps despite critic fear over the effect on the originative industry . TheNew York Times is leading the fightbackagainst what it believe is plagiarism on a grand stage . Concerns remain about the humans in charge of the platform , following the hoo-ha palisade a botched seek leadership coup d’état .
Nintendo
No fresh Switch ? No job . Nintendo had another standout yr thanks to a distich of lads who ’ve been at this biz for a while . Link and Mario . The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the Kingdomand Super Mario Bros. Wonder delivered in a expectant style as Nintendo proved there ’s still plenty of life in 2016 ’s Switch console . Away from the Joy Cons , the Super Mario Bros. movie was a bash hit and Nintendo even opened theme ballpark .
2024 promises to be even better . We might even see that fabled new Switch console table …
Meta
2023 was the twelvemonth Mark Zuckerberg stood up and say to the cosmos : “ How do you care me now ? ” The long - clip pantomime villain of the social media world enjoy a ‘ better the Old Nick you know ’ year after Elon Musk usher up at Twitter and redo it in his own image .
Meta spotted an chance andlaunched thread as an alternative to Twitter , which it intend to integrate into the Fediverse in the future . Elsewhere , while Google and Apple continued to bicker over message , WhatsApp had a great year in adding unexampled features . Oh , and theMeta Quest 3isn’t unsound either .
Losers
Elon Musk
Streaming Services
Not gon na lie down – we ’re reasonably overturned with streaming services right now . And 2023 may go down as the year the utopian , a la carte du jour stream dream began to expire .
And can we speak about the depicted object too ? Disney ’s bighearted Star Wars and Marvel display have underwhelmed , Netflix ’s output signal is very much of the marmite miscellanea , while the less say about Amazon Prime ’s Lord of the Rings show , the good . Oh and they ’re about to start charging you an extra £ 3 on top of your Prime subscription if you want to avoid ads .
Xbox
Another unsmooth year for Microsoft ’s console gaming program , despitesealing the deal to corrupt Call of tariff Creator Activision Blizzard . Again Microsoft fight with great name exclusives that redeem the goodness and truly engaged the public in 2023 .
Microsoft has total plenty of fantabulous title to Game Pass lately – includingStarfield , Cocoon , Hi - Fi Rush , Sea of Stars and Forza Motorsport . And for what ? To be outsold by the PS5 by a ratio of 5:1 , harmonize to some sales estimates ?
Xbox Series X possessor go forward to look across the gangway with envy .
