💯 Weeks of Pulse

Aug 02, 2020

Hello and welcome to the 100th Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Ben, and I’d like to thank you for being here on this special issue!

This is unbelievable — one hundred weeks of Pulse! If you’ve ever done something consistently for 100 weeks, you’ll know why I’m so excited. If you haven’t, try it… It’s amazing!

PS. this week, WE HAVE A SPONSOR! Check them out! 👇

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🗞 NEWS

SpaceX Dragon Astronauts coming home [link], and iPhone can become a payment terminal [link]

Someone’s buying TikTok, Arrests were made in Twitter Hack case, and watching Netflix faster [link]

Next iPhone news, COVID19, and Earnings Calls [link]

Antitrust hearing, Samsung losing its spot, and TikTok’s desperation [link]

Face masks & AI, Twitter & Trump, and the CEOs [link]

Google’s new subsea cable, Qualcomm’s super charger, and more trouble for TikTok [link]

Garmin under attack, Elon Musk’s DMs, and mysterious Xbox controller [link]

🎁 a gift for you.

🧠 INSIGHTS

💯- Credit: Obi Onyeador on Unsplash

Something worth making

Having an idea is essential, but it’s not the most critical part of starting something. Some things are hard to start, and starting them means a lot, like starting a business.

When it comes to content, it’s not really hard to start creating/curating content, especially, if you’re somehow suddenly inspired to do so. However, it’s a lot harder to consistently do it. Week in, week out, when you don’t have a big audience or an inspiring incident. It’s hard to push for consistency.

Sending out Pulse every Sunday has not been easy. There’s always something else I could be doing instead of writing this newsletter, but for the 100th time, I have decided not to do something else — and do this.

This is just to prove to myself that I can be consistent, and Pulse is something worth making; and that I care about it (and everyone who chose to read Pulse instead of doing something else!) and am proud of it.

Thank you for being with me on this journey. I’m doing my best to keep delivering Pulse to your inbox every week…

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📊 STATISTICS

Tech Giants Shrug Off COVID-19 Crisis

As opposed to airlines, hotel chains, restaurants and millions of small businesses that are fighting for survival amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s most prominent tech companies have been remarkably unaffected by the crisis (so far).

Defying the terrible state of the overall economy, all but one of the GAFAM group of companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft) posted double-digit revenue growth for the three months ended in June, raking in a combined $33.9 billion in profit in the second quarter alone.

Time Spent With Streaming Audio is Also Growing Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

It’s not just OTT and pay-TV viewing that have seen an increase in use since the beginning of the coronavirus. Audio streaming has also been on the rise as people spend more time in their homes. Indeed, per recent data from Comscore, US households have increased their average daily audio streaming by almost one hour…

📱 TOOLS & APPS

myFrontpage: Create custom new tab pages for your browser

macintosh.js: A 1991 Macintosh in an app - for Windows, Linux, and macOS

Cappuccino: A daily personal audio show featuring your friends [iOS | Android]

🔍 SPOTTED

Twitter is working on a separate Quote Tweets count display [link]
Twitter is working on telling users not to use special characters in their names [link]
Twitter is working on the “Contribute to Birdwatch” option [link]
Instagram is working on a new way of sending reactions to stories [link]
Instagram is working on the possibility of saving Reels audio [link]

🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK

Selena

@selenalarson

the evolution of "lol" from "laughing out loud" to "it's not actually funny but i don't know what to say here that makes this less awkward or earnest" in our internet language is very interesting.

2:53 PM - 29 Jul 2020

Night Vision

@goggles35

May your self-doubt diminish, and your heart begin to open wide.

6:07 PM - 2 Aug 2020

Thoughts Are Seeds

@thoughtsRseeds

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

- Eckhart Tolle

12:55 AM - 1 Aug 2020

Jola Tankoka

@JolaTankoka

You can't really know until you do.