Nov 1, 2020

📡 Talk is cheap. Act.

Hello and welcome to Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Ben, and I’m on my way to another lockdown — yay 😐

This time, it’s less surprising, but more frustrating because I believe it could’ve been avoided… But again, I haven’t run a country yet, so…

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🗞 NEWS

Facebook bracing for the election, Apple replacing AirPods, and Trump’s TikTok ban blocked — again — for now [link]
Earnings Calls, Netflix, and US Election [link]
Section 230, Spotify in Russia, and iPhone’s secret feature [link]
Microsoft’s money making machine, Zuck’s testimony, and a partnership [link]
Facebook steps into gaming, pisses off its Oculus users, and changes nudity policy [link]
Facebook election prep, Alibaba’s latest investment, and PayPal [link]

🧵 a gift for you.

🧠 INSIGHTS

Act - Credit: Ethan Elisara on Unsplash

“All anecdote and no data”

That’s a criticism, of course. A report, study or testimony that’s all anecdote with no data carries little in the way of actionable information.

On the other hand, if you want to change people’s minds, “all data and no anecdote” isn’t going to get you very far.

We act on what we understand, we understand what fits into our worldview and we remember what we act on.

from Seth Godin’s Blog.

📊 STATISTICS

The Importance of the iPhone to Apple

iPhone sales in the three months ending September 2020 stayed at subdued coronavirus levels: The company’s most crucial product only managed to generate revenues of $26.44 billion in the fall quarter. While the delay of the iPhone 12 release clearly impacted the current quarter negatively, things should be looking up now that Apple’s newest phone is hitting the shelves.

Read more on MarketingCharts.

www.marketingcharts.com

📱 TOOLS & APPS

ColorBox 2.0: Create amazing colour sets super fast

Bubbles: Simple video and screen capture collaboration [Brave/Chrome Extension]

Tabbs: Better tab navigation for Chrome [Brave/Chrome Extension]

Unspam.email: Email spam checker & newsletter heat map prediction.

🔍 SPOTTED

Instagram keeps working on the Reels remix feature (similar to TikTok Duets) [link]
Instagram is working on a new sticker: Collab [link]
Instagram is working on the ability to react to Stories without sending a message [link]
Google is working on the possibility of setting working hours in Gmail [link]
Twitter added a button to change the background of text fleets [link]
Spotify is working on the ability to link to voice assistants like Amazon Alexa right from the app [link]
Snapchat is working on a new camera mode: Timeline [link]
GitHub app is working on “Working Hours” for notifications [link]