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Smartphone sales decreased in 2017
People aren’t buying as many smartphones as they used to.
Source: Smartphone sales decreased in 2017 – Business Insider
Mobile Consumers Will Desert Their Cart if the Experience Is Flawed
Shopping on your mobile device isn’t always a smooth process. In fact, a new survey finds that many digital shoppers have a difficult time placing orders via mobile, resulting in an abandoned cart.
Source: Mobile Consumers Will Desert Their Cart if the Experience Is Flawed | eMarketer Retail
What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?
Every activity that didn’t involve a screen was linked to more happiness, and every activity that involved a screen was linked to less happiness. The differences were considerable: Teens who spent more than five hours a day online were twice as likely to be unhappy as those who spent less than an hour a day
If you wanted to give advice based on this research, it would be very simple: Put down your phone or tablet and go do something – just about anything – else.
While Apple’s Cash Pile hits a New Record, they continue to Glacially Invest in Apple TV & Services
With Apple’s mind boggling cash pile hitting a new record, you have to wonder why they aren’t investing more aggressive with larger acquisitions or at least more aggressively in their new video content service so that it could better compete for new shows with current leaders Hulu, Netflix and Amazon’s Prime.
Stop blaming Apple and take responsibility for tech addiction
There are many accusations against Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon and others for their addictive effects on our brains and culture. Most of the discourse is about how evil tech companies are (covertly) peddling addictive products/services that are destroying our minds, our society and our relationships. I’ve been frequently quoted in this dialogue as an example of someone who used to focus on increasing addiction (through gamification) to a “changed man” who now believes things have gone too far — with a startup to prove it.
Source: Stop blaming Apple and take responsibility for tech addiction | TechCrunch
Augmented Reality: How We’ll Bring the – The New York Times
The New York Times is about to expand our journalism so you can experience it in three dimensions, just by picking up your phone.
Source: Augmented Reality: How We’ll Bring the News Into Your Home – The New York Times
On the Path to Purchase, ‘Showrooming’ is a New Way to Shop
Nearly 75% of grocery shoppers have used a physical store to “showroom” before purchasing online. The store is still pivotal to the shopper experience, and there’s opportunity to convert showroomers or drive online purchases through one’s own online retail platforms.
Source: On the Path to Purchase, ‘Showrooming’ is a New Way to Shop
Apple reportedly slashing orders because iPhone X isn’t selling well
Several reports from Asia say Apple has slashed component orders for the iPhone X, its most important product. Apple shares dropped on the news. Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously said about component orders that “even if a particular data point were factual, it would be impossible to accurately interpret” what it means for iPhone sales.
Source: Apple reportedly slashing orders because iPhone X isn’t selling well – Business Insider
Are the Grammys Relevant in a Digital World?
In the latest episode of eMarketer’s “Behind the Numbers” podcast, analyst Paul Verna discusses trends in music consumption and how the Grammys fit—and don’t fit—with consumers’ evolving habits.
Source: Are the Grammys Relevant in a Digital World? – eMarketer
From Amazon, Apple, Comcast and AT&T: This is who owns the media today
Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases
Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities
Source: Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases | Technology | The Guardian
Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network
Trump national security officials are considering an unprecedented federal takeover of a portion of the nation’s mobile network to guard against China, according to sensitive documents obtained by Axios.
Source: Scoop: Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network – Axios
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Google, Please Put Your Clips AI in the Next Pixel Camera
Clips is basically a GoPro with a clip on the back that can also serve as a stand. The unique part is how Google embedded its machine learning skills directly into the camera, so you don’t actually take pictures with it. Instead, you just put Clips somewhere, then go about your day, and the AI will sit back like a voyeur until it sees the perfect shot, which it will then capture as a brief Motion Photo with ideal composition and a sort-of candid feel that you couldn’t get anywhere else.
Source: Google, Please Put Your Clips AI in the Next Pixel Camera « Android :: Gadget Hacks
Beyond Pokémon: Augmented Reality Is a Universal Design for Learning Tool
The success of Pokémon Go is demonstrating that augmented reality (AR) is reaching the masses quickly and can be a robust tool to enhance student engagement and learning. Leveraging AR for instructional purposes has the potential to become a powerful medium for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) by providing new tools for multiple means of representation, action and expression, and engagement. One of the advantages of using AR applications and AR platforms is the ability to display context relevant digital information to support students’ needs in real time and in specific contexts. Although many educational AR applications are in their developmental stages, the rapid growth of AR is likely to continue. The examples presented in this article focus on how educators can use mobile devices and AR to apply the principles of UDL. Combining AR with the principles of UDL can help educators create lessons that are accessible, engaging, and powerful for a diverse range of learners.
The Apple Watch wants to alter your behavior
What happens when you try to change behavior without behavioral science?
Source: The Apple Watch wants to alter your behavior – The Verge
How Widely Do Companies Share User Data? Here’s A Chilling Glimpse
A new visualization by researcher Rebecca Ricks uses PayPal EU data to demonstrate the inscrutable ways companies share user data.
Source: How Widely Do Companies Share User Data? Here’s A Chilling Glimpse
It’s Time for Apple to Build a Less Addictive iPhone
Apple gave us the modern smartphone. Now, it can create a new take on the device by encouraging us to use it more deliberately — and a lot less.
Source: It’s Time for Apple to Build a Less Addictive iPhone – The New York Times
Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone?
A small group of people have turned their phone screens to shades of gray to make them less stimulating. That’s the opposite of what tech companies want.
Source: Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone? – The New York Times
Google is reportedly revamping its store website as the war with Amazon escalates
Google and Amazon are expanding their efforts to promote their digital assistants to a number of third-party manufacturers, as the war between the two escalates. Amazon recently removed Google products from its e-commerce platform, and Google dropped support for YouTube on Amazon’s online platforms. This is why devices they make themselves are still important, and why Google is reportedly planning to launch an overhauled store to sell its own gadgets.
Source: Google is reportedly revamping its store website as the war with Amazon escalates – Business Insider
Mobile Innovation: How 5G will Enable the Future
The panel discusses innovations to be enabled by a successful global roll-out of 5G networks, such as self-driving vehicles, breakthroughs in health care, smart cities, AR/VR applications for commercial and consumer use and content and entertainment.
Source: Mobile Innovation: How 5G will Enable the Future – Keynotes – CES 2018 Livestream