📡 Before it’s too late ⏳

Nov 15, 2020

Hello and welcome to Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Ben, and my Snapchat lens hit 1 MILLION views last week ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Other than that, let’s jump in. Oh, and btw, make sure you check the tools & apps this week.

🗞 NEWS

Amazon support team’s geography fail [link], GM recalls 68,000 Chevy Bolt EVs [link], and
Hackers target COVID19 research, LinkedIn overcharging advertisers, and TikTok ban [link]
macOS Big Sur, US Election, and Instagram’s redesign [link]
The end of the free Google Photos, TikTok being ghosted by Trump, and SpaceX certified [link]
Apple’s new silicon, Amazon’s trouble in the EU, and Bitcoin tax fraud [link]
Probation for Apple’s major supplier, Buying entry to the EU, and One more thing [link]
Disinfo fight, Security holes, and Antitrust [link]

🤯 a gift for you.

🧠 INSIGHTS

Before it’s too late - Credit: Eternal Seconds on Unsplash

Where is your ifthen?

We all have them.

“If ____ happens, then I’ll do ___.”

If this emergency passes, then I’ll take a break.

If this customer closes, then I’ll invest in my education.

If we get this finished, then we’ll focus on that.

Too often, the ifthen is nothing but a stall. As a result, we burn trust, and worse, postpone a future we’d like to spend time living in.

Take your ifthen’s seriously. The future always happens sooner than we expect.

from <a href=“https://seths.blog/2020/11/where-is-your-ifthen/” target=“blank”>Seth Godin’s Blog.

reminds me of this quote from Osho: “Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.”

📊 STATISTICS

Top Apps Worldwide for October 2020 by Downloads

TikTok was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for October 2020 with close to 66 million installs, which represented a 9.5 percent increase from October 2019.

WhatsApp was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month with more than 57 million installs.

Disney+ reaches 100M downloads & $285M IAP revenue in its first year

After one year of Disney+ being live on the app stores, Apptopia estimates it has been downloaded 100 million times globally, with 62% of those coming from the US and 38% from international markets.

Global numbers do not include India, where Disney+ is built into the Hotstar app. You may remember from an earlier report, we estimated that after just one month, Disney+ had 22 million global downloads with 85% of them coming from the US.

Twitter Flagged 300k Misleading U.S. Election Tweets

In the wake of the 2016 election, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks were heavily criticised for failing to clamp down on and limit the spread of disinformation on their platforms.

A week after one of the most tumultuous elections in American history, Twitter has now released an overview of its efforts to label misleading tweets about the 2020 election. It stated that it attached a label to 300,000 misleading tweets between October 27 and November 03 under its Civic Integrity Policy, amounting to 0.2 percent of all tweets sent about the election.