Category Archives: Apple

Apple Pay to Become the Most Popular Digital Wallet Worldwide in 2020 with 227 Million Users

Posted on November 28, 2019 by GilPress

You will find more infographics at Statista The global number of digital wallet users could double by 2020, according to Juniper Research

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Apple to Target 2.15 Billion Video Streaming Viewers

Posted on January 13, 2017 by GilPress

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple plans to add video streaming of original content to Apple Music, escalating “the arms race between Apple Music and Spotify, which both offer essentially the same catalog of tens of millions of songs, … Continue reading →

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The iPhone 10th Anniversary

Posted on January 9, 2017 by GilPress

Ten years ago today, Apple announced the iPhone. Demonstrating the new pocket communicating computer at Macworld in San Francisco, Steve Jobs said: Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything… today, we’re introducing three revolutionary … Continue reading →

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iPhone Digital Tipping Point: Screen time took over active leisure in 2007

Posted on September 13, 2016 by GilPress

Brookings: Screen time increasingly dominates our leisure hours, too, according to the annual American Time Use Survey, which is based on a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 15 and older. “Screen time” and “active leisure” are necessarily hard to … Continue reading →

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The Rise of the ‘Tech’ Giants

Posted on August 8, 2016 by GilPress

Financial Times: [August 1, 2016] was something of a red-letter day for the tech industry. When the stock market closed, the five most valuable companies on the planet were, for the first time, technology concerns. And they all hailed from … Continue reading →

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What Are Amazon Echo, Apple Siri and Google Now Good For?

Posted on June 13, 2016 by GilPress
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Steve Jobs on how people hate streaming music (video)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by GilPress

Steve Jobs in 2003: “People have told us over and over and over again–they don’t want to rent their music.”

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Apple is in a Category All by Itself (#dataviz)

Posted on June 7, 2015 by GilPress

Source: Data Science Central

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Will the Apple Watch Give Rise to Bring Your Own Wearable (BYOW)?

Posted on March 24, 2015 by GilPress

The expectations for the official launch of the Apple Watch on March 9 are running high. Just like quarterly earnings estimates we now have a Wall Street consensus about how many Apple will sell this year: 14 million. Most of … Continue reading →

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The Apple Watch, Uber, and Robotic Car Service

Posted on March 11, 2015 by GilPress

Tech Crunch: “When you open the Uber app on your Apple Watch, it goes straight to a screen showing how long it’ll be until a car can come get you — no pulling out your phone to drop pins or … Continue reading →

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