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In Google, 2018 will be the year of "regularization" of Google Play. During the new exercise, the popular digital distribution platform will require new applications and updates that reach an API (application programming interface) similar in level to the most recent version of Android.
For Apple everything seemed to go smoothly in 2017; the opening of new headquarters, the good sales figures of the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X and the news of the value of the company on the stock market for an amount of 900,000 million US dollars augured a happy end of the year for the Cupertino. However, the company's recent statements, in which it admits slowing down old iPhones, could spoil the new year. To date there are already eight lawsuits filed in several federal courts against the company of Tim Cook after learning of the software change - admitted by Apple - that causes the slowdown.
During 2018, another of the issues that will have to pay attention will be the relationship between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Asian giant's technology companies. The all-powerful CCP led by Xi Jinping, aware of the potential of companies such as Tencent, Weibo and Alibaba, is pushing some of these conglomerates to offer the State a share in them and a direct role in corporate decisions, says the Wall. Street.
Who does not seem to be afraid of 2018 is Elon Musk, rather the opposite. Tesla and SpaceX, two of the companies of the multi-faceted South African naturalized US, face equally commendable challenges: the first could finally normalize the electric car if it solves its supply problems and the second could return the man to the moon in 2018 if finally It carries out the lunar tourism mission that it announced in February of this year.