📡 What if... 🤔
Welcome to another Pulse!
It’s that fun time of the year; I hope you really enjoy it.
Next week, Pulse is taking a holiday break. If you’re a paying member, then you’ll get four news summary Pulses until the next complete Pulse in 2020.
Happy Holidays everyone!
- Ben from [ perspective ix ]
PS. Did you notice the new banner? Thoughts? 😉
📰 News
YouTube’s top earner is an 8-year-old who reviews toys - and he made about $26 million in 2019 [Futurism] - how do you feel about your 9to5 job right now? 🤔
Apple is working on a secret plan to go around the mobile networks and use satellites to beam data to devices [Bloomberg].
Facebook and Twitter shut down a network of fake and pro-Trump accounts reaching 55 million accounts. The accounts used AI-generated faces to ‘masquerade’ as Americans [Verge].
France slaps Google with $166M antitrust fine for opaque and inconsistent ad rules [TechCruch].
German court bans Uber’s ride-hailing services in Germany - Uber still can appeal though [Reuters].
Amazon to raise US fulfilment fees 3 percent for merchants next year [Reuters].
Researchers detailed a security flaw that allowed hackers to crash WhatsApp and permanently delete contents of group chats [ZDNet] - make sure you use the latest version.
🧠 Insights
The important stuff - Credit: Denise Johnson on Unsplash
What if today, just for today, we didn’t settle?
What if we saw precisely the change we sought to make and sacrificed to make that change?
What if we set aside urgencies and focused simply on what’s important instead?
What if we did the work that matters?
from Seth Godin’s Blog.
📊 Statistics
Most Downloaded Apps of the Decade - Credit: AppAnnie
Most Downloaded Apps of the Decade
And Facebook owns them all!
More on AppAnnie.
Global Mobile Handset Profit Share - Credit: CounterpointResearch
Apple Continues to Lead Global Handset Industry Profit Share
Overall global handset profits declined 11% YoY to USD 12 billion in Q3 2019 due to an increased mix of entry to mid-tier products and a fall in revenues for key smartphone OEMs. Within the top ten brands, only Samsung and Huawei managed to increase their revenue on an annual basis. Additionally, the replacement cycle for premium smartphones has lengthened as recent hardware features have been unable to offer an attractive reason to upgrade.
Read more on CounterpointResearch.
📱 Tools & Apps
Mosaic iOS Wireframes: Wireframe and design starter kit
Firefox Lockwise: Take your passwords everywhere [iOS | Android]
Popsters 2.0: The world’s first analytics tool for TikTok
Visa List 2.0: Find travel freedom & explore the world with your passport
🎧 Audio Stimulation
The Phoebus Cartel - Throughline
Have you ever wondered why your smartphone or toaster oven doesn’t seem to last very long, even though technology is becoming better and better? In a special collaboration with Planet Money, Throughline brings you the history of planned obsolescence – the idea that products are designed to break.
🐦 Tweets of the Week
The blue tick people who write tweets about how they are logging off because it’s Christmas? Cowards.
The worst thing about #Christmas is…
☝️ check out the thread… let me know what you think.
🎮 Fun Stuff
The difference between Moms and Dads - Credit: Reddit/u/LittleMilton
Feeling lucky? - Credit: DuckChillin
How To Write Good. https://t.co/tU48GYqUdf
This is not goodbye...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!