​​🤖 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.

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❓ Which mobile OS do you mainly use?

​​📱 iOS 12 Adoption Rate

According to Mixpanel, an analytics company currently monitoring the install base of #iOS 12, #Apple's lates mobile operating system is quite popular.

iOS 12 is already installed on roughly 56.3% of all iOS devices; 37.1% of devices still run iOS 11, and 6.6% of iOS users run an older version.

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​​🎧 Which Music Streaming Services?

According to Verto Analytics, so-called Music Lovers, the top 20% of all US 🇺🇸 adults (ages 18+), based on the amount of time they spend per month online with #music brands and content, love Spotify.

#Spotify has a 48% reach among Music Lovers, who engage in an average of 124 sessions per month with the brand.
#Pandora Radio (recently acquired by SiriusXM for $3.5 billion) comes in second, with a 43.5% reach. Music Lovers rack up an average of 81 sessions per month engaging with Pandora Radio.
#Apple's iTunes comes in third with a 42% reach, and an average of 35 sessions per month.

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📱 iPod Launch

On this day (23 October) in 2001, Steve Jobs launched the iPod, and everything changed for #Apple.
#History

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​​ Apple Stops Sharing Unit Sales Figures for Its Products

During its Q4 2018 earnings call, #Apple made a surprise announcement, dealing a major blow to analysts and data enthusiasts such as ourselves: going forward, the company will not be sharing unit sales figures for its products. For the past few years, analysts and investors have tended to focus their attention on one number, #iPhone sales, and Apple apparently no longer wants its entire business to be reduced to that one indicator.

When smartphone sales (naturally) started to slow down due to market saturation and slower technological progress, Apple decided to delve even further into the premium segment, bringing its average iPhone selling price to unprecedented heights and reaccelerating growth in its iPhone business. Therefore, Apple wants us to focus on the number that is more likely to be positive going forward.

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❓ Do you own any Apple device?

​​📱 Your Phone's Radiation

For most people nowadays, their #smartphone is within arm's reach 24 hours a day. It's in their pocket while they're at work, it's in their hand on the train ride home and it's on their bedside table as they go to sleep. With this level of proximity and usage, many can't quite shake the niggling feeling that they might be risking damage to themselves in the long run. While conclusive longitudinal research on the effects of cell phone radiation is still hard to come by, for those looking to hedge their bets, this infographic shows the phones that emit the most radiation when held to the ear while calling.

The German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz) has a comprehensive database of #smartphones - new and old - and the level of radiation they emit. Following the criteria set for this chart (see footnotes), the current smartphone creating the highest level of radiation is the Mi A1 from Chinese vendor Xiaomi. In fact, the top list is dominated by handsets made by Chinese companies, with #Xiaomi, #OnePlus, #Huawei and #ZTE accounting for 12 of the 15 phones with the largest values. It must be said though, that premium #Apple phones such as the #iPhone 7 and the recently released iPhone 8 are also here to be seen.

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❓ Would this concern you and the smartphone you might buy?

📈 Microsoft's Share Price Tripled Under Satya Nadella

Five years ago, Satya Nadella took over as CEO at #Microsoft, following in the footsteps of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. It wasn’t an easy situation to come in for Nadella, considering that Microsoft had missed the transition to mobile devices, Windows 8 had flopped miserably and the PC market had started its decline, putting Microsoft’s core business, Windows, into question.

Back in 2014, most people given the choice to invest $1,000 in either Microsoft or #Apple, probably would have invested in the latter, considering the huge success that Microsoft’s old foe was having with its mobile devices, most importantly the iPhone. And yet, here we are, five years into Nadella’s tenure and Microsoft is not only the most valuable public company on the planet, it has also outperformed Apple over the past five years.

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🤯 Top 15 BEST global brands ranking for the last 19 years...

Watch big name tech companies take-over at the end!
Keep an eye on #Apple, #Google, and #Nokia...

Interbrand via Matt Navarra.
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🤯 Tech Companies’ Market Capitalisation Over the Last 23 Years

Fascinating to see how quickly growing companies in tech have been able to join the top.
Keep an on on #Apple #Microsoft #Amazon #Google #Facebook and #Netflix...

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​​👨‍💻 Apple WWDC vs Google I/O 👩‍💻

#Apple kicked off its annual Wordwide Developers Conference #WWDC yesterday. Under the motto “Write code. Blow minds” thousands of developers come together in San Jose, CA, to learn about the latest features on Apple’s platforms in hundreds of workshops, keynotes and networking events.

Here you can see how popularity of Apple's WWDC is declining, although still a lot more popular than #Google's similar event called Google I/O

And the highlights of yesterday's WWDC:

👉 tvOS: multiple users, Xbox & PlayStation controllers

👉 watchOS 6 with new watchfaces, App Store & more

👉 macOS Catalina

👉 iOS 13 with dark mode, updated Apple apps & privacy features

👉 iMessage to support profile photos — including your new Memoji personalized with makeup and accessories

👉 HomePod will be able recognize who’s speaking to it with iOS 13

👉 iPadOS for iPad with new home screen widgets & multitasking improvements

👉 All-new redesigned Mac Pro

👉 New sign-in tool to compete with Facebook and Google

👉 Apple breaks up iTunes, creates separate Podcasts, TV, and Music apps for macOS

👉 Photos on iPhone is about to look completely different

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❓ What was your favourite announcement from yesterday's WWDC?

📱 For App Makers: Apple's App Store vs Google Play

Despite the fact that the installed base of #Android devices is significantly larger than it is for #iOS devices, app publishers still seem to find larger earnings potential on #Apple’s #AppStore compared to #GooglePlay.

According to Sensor Tower’s estimates, the top 100 iOS app publishers made $84 million on average in Q1 2019, compared to $51 million for the most successful Android app makers. The difference between the two platforms is even more pronounced when excluding games publishers. The highest-grossing non-gaming app publishers for iOS outperformed the top 100 on Google’s Play Store by 232 percent.

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📱 Worldwide Mobile App Revenue

Global app revenue reached $39 billion in the first half of 2019, that means an increase of 15% compared to the same period of 2018.

Consumers spent an estimated $25.5 billion globally on #Apple’s #AppStore during the first half, an increase of 13.2% YoY from $22.6 billion in Q1 and Q2 of 2018. The amount generated by Apple’s platform was approximately 80% greater than #Google Play’s estimated gross revenue of $14.2 billion for the half. That was up 19.6% YoY from first half 2018’s total of $11.8 billion.

📖 Read more about Worldwide Mobile App Downloads.

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📊 How Tech Companies Impact Society
The Verge Tech Survey 2020

Americans believe that #Google, #Amazon, #Apple, #Microsoft, #Netflix, and #YouTube have an overall positive effect on society. They’re more likely to think that #Twitter, #Slack, #Instagram, and #Facebook have an overall negative effect.

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📰 Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 1


👉 #Intel unveils 10th-gen desktop CPUs, including 5.3GHz flagship (link)


👉 #Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting the claim in its original blog post to 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants (link)


👉 #Telegram postpones the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time, pushing the go-live date to April 2021, and offers to return $1.2B to investors (link)


👉 Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to #cryptocurrency and #blockchain investments and holdings (link)


👉 #Apple Q2: $58.3B revenue, up 1% YoY; $44.9B from products, $13.35B from services; net income of $11.25B (link)


👉 #Amazon Q1: $75.5B revenue, up 26% YoY; net income of $2.5B, down from $3.6B in Q1 2019; $10.2B from AWS revenue, up from $7.7B YoY (link)


👉 #Twitter Q1: sales up 3% YoY to $808M; net loss of $8M due to COVID-19; mDAUs hit a record 166M, up 24% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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📊 iPad App Downloads See First Positive Quarterly Growth in Four Years

Driven by a surge in use and adoption of the device during the #COVID19 pandemic, quarterly first-time downloads of apps for #Apple’s #iPad surpassed 1.1 billion worldwide in Q1 2020, marking the first year-over-year growth in this metric since the Q4 2013 and a 40% increase from Q1 2019.

At the same time, quarterly global consumer spending in iPad apps saw its largest YoY increase since Q4 2014 at 16%, while crossing the $2 billion threshold for the first quarter ever.

🦅 @perspectiveix via SensorTower.

Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 3


👉 #Intel is in talks to acquire #Moovit for ~$1B (link)


👉 #Uber to require masks or face coverings for drivers and passengers in certain markets (link)


👉 Security lapse at #India’s #Jio exposed #coronavirus symptom checker results (link)


👉 #Amazon, #Flipkart, #Ola and #Uber begin to resume their services in #India (link)


👉 #UberEats exits seven markets (link)


👉 The 13-inch #MacBook Pro gets #Apple’s much-improved keyboard (link)


👉 Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network launches chatbot on #WhatsApp to debunk thousands of #coronavirus-related hoaxes (link)



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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 5


👉 #Apple will host a virtual #WWDC this year — starts on 22 June (link)


👉 #Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies (link)
👉 #Twitter rolls out changes to threaded conversations following tests in its prototype app, #twttr (link)

👉 #Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, around 25% of its global workforce (link)


👉 #Bitcoin is set for ‘Halving’ this month (link)


👉 Leaked videos show #Lenovo’s first gaming #smartphone (link)

👉 #Android 11’s public beta to launch with 3 June via live stream (link)
👉 #Google’s #Stadia controller will finally work wirelessly with computers starting this week (link)


👉 #Microsoft launches #SurfaceBook 3 (link) and #SurfaceHeadphones 2 (link)
👉 #Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its custom Linux OS (link)


👉 #Uber lays off 14% of its workforce in COVID-19-related cost-cutting (link)


👉 #Pinterest Q1: revenue of $272M, vs. $270M est., up 35% YoY; user base grew to 367M MAUs, up 26% YoY (link)


👉 #EA Q4: revenues of $1.39B, beating expectations of $1.19B, up 12% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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​​🔝 World’s 10 Most Valuable Brands in 2020

For the eighth year running, #Apple is at the top of the list of most valuable brands in the world, keeping its lead over top companies like #Amazon, #Microsoft and #Google, according to Interbrand’s latest annual rankings. Although there has been some shifting around in positions, all of the brands in the top 10 last year remained there this year.

Of the 43% of brands that benefited from a lift in value this year, #Amazon (60%) and #Microsoft (53%) were the fastest risers. #Spotify also had a significant increase, up 52% to $8.4 billion (#70).

Other fast-risers this year include:
- #Netflix: +41% to $12.7 billion (#41);
- #Adobe: +41% to $18.2 billion (#27);
- #PayPal: +38% to $10.5 billion (#60);
- #Apple: +38% to $323 billion (#1); and
- #Salesforce: +34% to $10.8 billion (#58).

This year, five brands dropped off the top 100 list, making room for five new entrants. One of those new entrants is #Instagram, which makes its debut to the list at #19 with a brand value of $26.1 billion. #YouTube (#30) joins Instagram on the list of new entrants with a brand value of $17.3 billion. Both of these brands are also favorites among social media marketers.

The remaining three new entrants are:

- #Tesla (#40; $12.8 billion);
- #JohnnieWalker (#98; $4.6 billion); and
- #Zoom (#100; $4.5 billion)

Download the full report here.
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⌚️ Smartwatch Market 2Q21

The global #smartwatch market grew 27% YoY in Q2, per Counterpoint Research. Obviously, #Apple remains on top, but its market share did slip from 30.1% in Q2 2020 to 28% today.

Meanwhile, #Samsung saw its slice of the pie expand from 6.8% to 7.6%—an upward trend that could continue thanks to its newly unveiled #GalaxyWatch 4, made in partnership with #Google.

All Credits: Counterpoint Research
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💰 #Microsoft overtakes #Apple to become the world’s most valuable company.

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