📡 Apple, Samsung, Twitter and Netflix... Which one are you most mad at?
Welcome to the second Pulse!
Coincidently or not, in the second Pulse, whether you’re an Apple user or a Samsung fan, a Facebook user or an avid Tweeter, you’ve got something to be mad about your favourite tech giant - even if it’s Tesla or Netflix! When did data misuse, fake news, fake photos and broken promises become our everyday?
By the way, this issue is a lot longer than the first one. Please send your feedback. You can press reply and get straight back to me.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
- Ben
📰 News
Facebook's ads in London #improved - Credit: Protest Stencil
Oh, Samsung… Really? Tweeting stock photos to show off your mobile camera! Really?! [CultOfMac]
We’ve got a new change to complain about! Netflix is testing video promos that play in between episodes! [TheVerge]
Is this Apple’s new thing? First AirPower, now FaceTime? Group FaceTime isn’t arriving in September. [TechCrunch]
Twitter pulled the plug on its Legacy APIs last week because only 6 million users had installed third-party Twitter clients! That, coming from a company that its monthly active users have grown by -1 million users in Q2 2018 compared to Q1 2018 [Statista], is ironic! Oh, and by the way, that small group of not-so-important users are among Twitter’s most active users! [TechCrunch]
InfoWars videos, podcasts and social posts are disappearing from the internet, but would it limit Alex Jones’s reach? Or the wide coverage is actually doing him a favour? [Fortune]
🧠Insights
Writing for email vs. writing for social media
If you have something and want to sell it online, you know you need content. However, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the channels you can share that content through. Social media and email are two of the main ones, and although they go hand-in-hand, writing for each of them is quite different. There are some useful tips in this article by MailChimp’s Austin Ray.
📊 Statistics
Tesla's Turbulent Week at the Stock Exchange
Tesla’s stock fluctuated a lot over the past week as Elon Musk tweeted about taking the company private at $420 per share, and then securing funding through the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund. It all was followed by a NASDAQ halt on trading Tesla’s stock but didn’t stop there. It went on for Tesla to subpoenas and three lawsuits filed against the company for security fraud so far.
New mobile subscriptions Q1 2018
Ericsson Mobility Report - June 2018 [PDF]
2018 is the year of the first 5G commercial launches and large-scale deployments of the cellular Internet of Things (IoT). Here’s a lot of data on mobile subscriptions, traffic, data consumption and IoT connected devices.
Ericsson Mobility Visualiser: Learn from the past and look into the future by exploring the data that underpins the report using Ericsson’s interactive web application.
📱 Tools & Apps
Moment: an iOS app that tracks how much you use your iPhone and iPad each day. You can set limits for yourself. It also offers Moment Family (paid feature) where you can manage your family’s screen time from your own phone and set up time for your entire family to be screen-free using family dinner time. [iOS | Android version is not available yet, but you can sign up to get notified when it is.]
Akimbo: not an app; but a podcast from Seth Godin. Highly recommended. [All the ways to listen]
🎮 Fun Stuff
The original sin of the internet will always be relying on advertising to fund our information architecture. Without exaggeration, we fucked that one up so bad.
Saw this on Twitter last Monday and it got me thinking…
I locked my phone and was thinking about can’s tweet when I noticed a nasty scratch on my iPhone’s screen… I was so annoyed I had to tell someone about it. So…
*he took a screenshot to sent to his wife to show her the new annoying scratch on his iPhone screen.*
Yup.
So, what do you think about can’s tweet? Is that really so bad? (*looking at the scratch*)
This is not goodbye...
but this is 👋
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