Hello and welcome to another episode of App Stories.

I'm John Voorhees and with me is Federico Vitechi.

Hey, Federico.

Hello, John.

Hi.

How are you?

Doing all right. Doing all right. We had our first big cold snap of the winter here, so I've been bundled up and had the fire going in the fireplace. So, you know, it's cozy here in North Carolina. Nice. This is going to be our final episode of the year. I almost thought last week that it was going to be the final one. No, it's this one. It is. It's hard to keep track because of the way we schedule the recording

versus the releases and everything. But yes, this is our final episode of the year. We'll be

gone for a couple of weeks and then we will reconvene in the new year. So keep an eye out for the new episode early in January.

We're just going to take some time off, decompress, unwind, spend time with family and friends,

and then be back.

And this week, though, I think, you know, is going to be a contrast to last week.

Last week, we talked about the MaxRoy Selects Awards.

And we talked, we looked back.

We looked back at the year gone by and the apps that we, we all used.

This week, we're going to look forward.

And we're going to kind of a predictions episode but more of a what are

the trends we see going into the new year that we think are going to accelerate or persist or

whatever or what new ones do we think we'll we'll see yeah yeah we're going to look ahead at the

what we think are going to be upcoming trends for

2026 in our community, in the tech world in general.

And let's just get into it, you know.

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