Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Friday, December 13th, and we're looking back at the decade in consumer tech.

I'm your host, Owen Owen Lewis and I've got

Fool dot coms Dan Klein with me on Skype. Dan what is going on man? I am doing

this podcast from my room on the navigator of the seas about to head out to the Bahamas.

Hoping on a cruise ship on Friday the 13th, huh?

Yeah, I would have done like a murder theme cruise, but they didn't seem that cool with that.

No, no, I think people are trying to break that association.

Well I'm happy that you can call in and join me.

Kind of a testament to the advancements in tech over the last decade or so that you're able to

thousands of miles away on a cruise ship. We're looking at basically 2010 to

2019 where we are now and what has changed, what's gotten us to the point where we are now and what has changed what's gotten us to the point where we are in

technology but first before we get into the actual tech Dan a quick ten year challenge

question for you what were you doing a decade ago? So you set these things up to make

me look a thousand years ago. That is not true. I'm playing into the theme day.

So ten years ago I had a five year old, my wife and I had a five year old, which was three to six was probably the worst, most difficult years, and I was running a giant toy store in Connecticut, and much of my management was done on my

blackberry which I used to not only communicate with all of my my employees but also

to monitor our security cameras and when I was home I believe I was playing a lot of PlayStation 3.

I think there are a lot of listeners that probably heard Blackberry and thought,

you know that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

I was a big fan until the almost bitter end.

Yeah, they certainly had their moment in the sun.

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