🧠 Today's #BigThought
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 Design is Never Done
the Apple website Edition

✏️ by Luke Wroblewski: prs.pctvix.co/2Mboib9

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​​🎶 Music in the Day in the Life of a Music Lover

A breakdown of Music Lovers activity based on streaming music service and screen reveals:

- On smartphones, #Google Play Music, #AppleMusic, #Pandora Radio, and #Spotify are the most popular streaming music services.

- On PCs, Spotify, Zune, #iTunes, and Pandora Radio are the most popular streaming music services.

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📖 via VertoAnalytics: prs.pctvix.co/2OxkPk9

🤖 Meet Kengoro: The Exercising Robot

Kengoro is A Japanese #robot that can do push-ups, play badminton, and could help us better understand our bodies.

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​​⌚️ Apple vs Samsung: The Smart Watch Edition

Based on IDC estimates, #Samsung has a lot of ground to make up if it wants to challenge #Apple’s dominant position in the #smartwatch market. In 2017, the Cupertino-based company shipped 17.7 million watches compared to Samsung’s 3.6 million.

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📖 via Statista: prs.pctvix.co/2Ou1tfC

❓ Do you own a smartwatch?

​​📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ Mobile search is still Google’s kingpin. For the second-quarter of 2018, Alphabet’s total revenue was $32.7 billion with mobile search leading the way. That’s up 26% from the year prior. (Source: Alphabet)


INSIGHT
🤖 What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Oxexkt

OTHER NEWS
🚫 Amazon to be told to ditch 'guaranteed next-day delivery' claim: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OxWoTG

🤳 With news-feed user growth slowing, Facebook revs its pitch for Instagram Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31313

😂 Hacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did it: https://t.me/iXNews/31304

👻 Snapchat expands Shoppable AR to its top creators: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OAr8DF

😬 The DNC’s lawyers subpoena WikiLeaks with a tweet: https://t.me/iXNews/31315

😮 The Turkish lira is so volatile it’s making Bitcoin look tame by comparison: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KKWEw5
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🧠 Today's #BigThought
by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KK6r5L

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 50 Shades of Gray

#Apple's current line up! Apparently, they can't decide on what Space Gray really is!

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STAT
⚡️ In a recent survey of 595 VR and AR professionals, 24% reported strong sales in the enterprise market but only 18% showed strong sales in the consumer market. When asked about the barriers to entry, 52% said a lack of content is the biggest barrier, although this is down from 62% the previous year. (Source: VR Intelligence & SuperData)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MneaLU

OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook joins forces with LaLiga 🇪🇸 to livestream matches in the Indian 🇮🇳 subcontinent: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mk2Joj

👻 How IGN is using Fortnite and Marvel to grow on Snapchat Discover: https://t.me/iXNews/31386

📉 Ethereum’s falling price splits the crypto community: https://t.me/iXNews/31380

🤔 The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control: https://t.me/iXNews/31376

🇸🇦 In the Tesla drama, Saudi Arabia reminds Silicon Valley of its weight: https://t.me/iXNews/31372

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​​📰 News Networkers

A profile of those who use #SocialMedia to stay up-to-date with current events and follow journalists or news/media organizations on social media.

- 46% of internet users use social media to stay up-to-date with current events.

- 51% of this group buy from brands they see advertised.
- 58% say having the latest tech products is very important.
- 73% have talked about a product online.

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📖 Download #Infographic via GWI: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MKKEwz

📱 Jony Ive
Chief Design Officer for the entire smartphone industry

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STAT
⚡️ Nearly half of over 65s in Great Britain are now shopping online. The percentage of over 65s using the internet to shop has trebled since 2008, rising from just 16% to 48% in 2018. (Source: Office for National Statistics)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGAGl6

OTHER NEWS
🗣 New Apple patent hints that Siri could offer multiuser support: https://t.me/iXNews/31406

😑 Apple's Group FaceTime isn’t arriving in September: https://t.me/iXNews/31410

5️⃣ Sprint and LG will release a 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019: https://t.me/iXNews/31433

👩‍⚕️ Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health: https://t.me/iXNews/31434

💰 Square Cash expands bitcoin support to all 50 US states: https://t.me/iXNews/31446

👹 Instagram published a note about the recent jump in the number of hacked accounts: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGDizq

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🔉 When Peter Rahal was trying to find early investors for RXBAR, he went to his father for a little help...

Listen to the complete episode on 📻 @iXRadio:
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​​💸 Where do teens hang out online?
Class division in social media

According to Pew Research data, as shown in the chart below, household income seems to play a role in where on #SocialMedia the family's kids hang out.
However, Lynn Schofield Clark, a professor in the media, film, and journalism department at the University of Denver believes, in the end, the most important indicator of where teenagers go is simply where their friends are. And this, in itself, can be the very reason why class division in social media exists - and is growing.

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📖 via Quartz: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nESnBf

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STAT
⚡️ The influencer marketing space is currently valued at £3.9bn globally. 54% of that is being spent on A-list celebrities. Meanwhile millennials remain the most receptive generational audience, followed by Gen Z. (Source: Zine)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2wcX4WQ

OTHER NEWS
🗞 Google releases a searchable database of US political ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31535

🤦‍♀️ Motorola’s latest phone looks exactly like an iPhone X with a Huawei paint job: https://t.me/iXNews/31539

💸 Uber reportedly lost $891 million in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows: https://t.me/iXNews/31540

🤔 Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries: https://t.me/iXNews/31549

💰 Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund: https://t.me/iXNews/31560

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😬 And when you finally connected, someone rang to talk to dad!

#Nostalgia: Are you old enough to remember?

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​​🤝 Size, Volume or Engagement?

According to SocialBakers, #Instagram is the major interactions driver for brands - more so than #Facebook or #Twitter - even though it doesn't have the biggest audience or the highest activity volume.
#SocialMedia

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STAT
⚡️ 60% of 16-24-year-olds claim to notice ads more if they deal with important issues, compared to 55% of 35-44-year-olds and 37% of those aged 45 and older. (Source: Channel 4)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MXnDXv

OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook secures deal to stream Champions League matches in Latin America: https://t.me/iXNews/31612

🏈 Adidas kicks off Twitter live streaming partnership with high school football: https://prs.pctvix.co/2waxfGR

💰 Coinbase now supports buying and selling Ethereum Classic: https://t.me/iXNews/31647

🤔 As demand for Instagram Stories ads heats up, some early adopters turn to Facebook Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31643

🚘 Update: New whistleblower claims against Tesla allege drug trafficking, theft and phone hacking coverup: https://t.me/iXNews/31634

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😁 Someone is improving Facebook's ads in London

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via Protest Stencil: twitter.com/protestencil