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STAT
⚡️ Only about 2% of the people with devices that use Amazon’s Alexa intelligent assistant — mostly Amazon’s own Echo line of speakers — have made a purchase with their voices so far in 2018 (Source: The Information)
More on this later on today's #BigThought


INSIGHT
🎼 The definitive timeline of #Spotify’s critic-defying journey to rule music: prs.pctvix.co/2KE3H9Q


OTHER NEWS
🥧 #Android 9 Pie is available for Google Pixel phones, but some key features won’t ship until the fall: t.me/iXNews/30913

👩‍⚕️ #Google plans to roll out digital wellness features in Pie but #Apple’s already got ’em: t.me/iXNews/30933

🚖 India’s Uber rival Ola is headed Europe with ride-hailing launch in the UK: t.me/iXNews/30952

💳 #Facebook wants financial data from America’s largest banks: t.me/iXNews/30919 (but they're denying it: prs.pctvix.co/2KzFxNG)

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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

​​🗣 The State of Chinese Voice Assistants

China is the second-largest consumer market in the world, hitting $4.3T in consumer expenditure in 2016 alone (for reference, the US ranked first with $12.5T, and Japan third with $2.7T).

The Chinese smart home market will reach nearly $23B in 2018, according to Juniper Research. #SmartSpeakers and #AI voice assistants are becoming an integral part of that.

Now that smart speakers are becoming commonplace, the early entrant, #Amazon, is losing its market share — and not just to its rival #Google, but to newer players emerging in China.

🚀 @PerspectiveIX via CBInsights.

❓ Do you own a smart speaker?

​​🎂 10 Years of Google Chrome

#GoogleChrome turned 10 on Sunday, and according to its Twitter, we should be expecting a surprise today. Meanwhile, let's take a look at #Chrome's path to browser market domination:
2008 ⇢ 0.3%
2018 ⇢ 60%

Also, since 2012, #Google Chrome has become the world's most popular browser. Here's the list of its predecessors as the world's number one most popular browser since 1990:
1990 ⇢ WorldWideWeb
1993 ⇢ NCSA Mosaic
1995 ⇢ Netscape
1999 ⇢ Internet Explorer
2012 ⇢ Google Chrome

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❓ Is Chrome your default desktop browser?

​​🤖 Android's Dominance

Ten years ago, on September 23, 2008, the T-Mobile G1 made its debut, marking the birth hour of #Android. More than a year after #Apple had released the first #iPhone, Android’s debut wasn’t as spectacular and, as opposed to the iPhone, the first Android device still had a physical keyboard. But #Google’s open approach to building a mobile platform quickly proved to be successful and it took less than three years for Android to become the number 1 platform in the booming smartphone market.

🚀 @PerspectiveIX via Statista.

❓ Which mobile OS do you mainly use?

🎂 Google's 20th Birthday

#Google's video Doodle takes a stroll down memory lane by exploring popular searches all over the world throughout the last two decades.

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