Ever have one of those moments where you see some new tech twist — an app, a feature, an idea of some sort — and you just stop in your tracks and think: “Whoa. Now, that’s clever”?
I won’t lie: Those moments come up far less frequently than they once did. By and large lately, we just haven’t been seeing the same sort of awe-inspiring advancements in the mobile-tech arena that we did a decade ago. And most companies — Google very much included — are currently obsessed with chasing a very specific flavor of AI that’s overhyped, frequently impractical, and awkwardly out of place in its present implementation.