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📱Which was your first phone? Caution! This might make you feel old! #️⃣#mobile#iphone 🦅@PerspectiveIX via Twitter.

📱2018's Highest Grossing iPhone Apps #Netflix was by far the highest grossing #iPhone and #iPad app in 2018, bringing in 790 million dollars. Tencent’s video streaming app was the second highest earning iOS app, grossing 490 million dollars. Netflix blew the other top ten apps out of the water, racking up 62 percent more revenue than second-place iOS app,Tencent. While Netflix outperformed #Tencent, video streaming and sharing applications did well overall, dominating the top ten list. Seven out of the ten highest grossing iOS apps were video streaming or sharing applications. Notably, half of the apps were owned by Chinese companies like #Baidu, Tencent, and #Alibaba. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista.

​​📱Your Phone's Radiation For most people nowadays, their #smartphone is within arm's reach 24 hours a day. It's in their pocket while they're at work, it's in their hand on the train ride home and it's on their bedside table as they go to sleep. With this level of proximity and usage, many can't quite shake the niggling feeling that they might be risking damage to themselves in the long run. While conclusive longitudinal research on the effects of cell phone radiation is still hard to come by, for those looking to hedge their bets, this infographic shows the phones that emit the most radiation when held to the ear while calling. The German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz) has a comprehensive database of #smartphones - new and old - and the level of radiation they emit. Following the criteria set for this chart (see footnotes), the current smartphone creating the highest level of radiation is the Mi A1 from Chinese vendor Xiaomi. In fact, the top list is dominated by handsets made by Chinese companies, with #Xiaomi, #OnePlus, #Huawei and #ZTE accounting for 12 of the 15 phones with the largest values. It must be said though, that premium #Apple phones such as the #iPhone 7 and the recently released iPhone 8 are also here to be seen. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓Would this concern you and the smartphone you might buy?

​​ Apple Stops Sharing Unit Sales Figures for Its Products During its Q4 2018 earnings call, #Apple made a surprise announcement, dealing a major blow to analysts and data enthusiasts such as ourselves: going forward, the company will not be sharing unit sales figures for its products. For the past few years, analysts and investors have tended to focus their attention on one number, #iPhone sales, and Apple apparently no longer wants its entire business to be reduced to that one indicator. When smartphone sales (naturally) started to slow down due to market saturation and slower technological progress, Apple decided to delve even further into the premium segment, bringing its average iPhone selling price to unprecedented heights and reaccelerating growth in its iPhone business. Therefore, Apple wants us to focus on the number that is more likely to be positive going forward. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓Do you own any Apple device?

​​🤖Android's Dominance Ten years ago, on September 23, 2008, the T-Mobile G1 made its debut, marking the birth hour of #Android. More than a year after #Apple had released the first #iPhone, Android’s debut wasn’t as spectacular and, as opposed to the iPhone, the first Android device still had a physical keyboard. But #Google’s open approach to building a mobile platform quickly proved to be successful and it took less than three years for Android to become the number 1 platform in the booming smartphone market. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓Which mobile OS do you mainly use?

​​📱New iPhones Outside the US There's no doubt about the increase in the price of #Apple's new iPhone every year, but for the first time, an #iPhone can cost a US🇺🇸 customer $1,449. However, compared to other countries in the world, this still is cheap. When exported to Japan🇯🇵, the price will rise by 2%, but even that's not a lot. The British🇬🇧 and German🇩🇪 customers, respectively, should pay about 130% and 132% of the price of an iPhone in the US. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista.

​​🍎Apple's Road to $1 Trillion Despite the news that #Apple lost its second place in the smartphone market to #Huawei in the past quarter, the #iPhone maker is closer than ever to becoming the first trillion dollar company. Following the release of better-than-expected results on Tuesday, the company’s share price climbed almost 6 percent on Wednesday, bringing its market capitalization to $990 billion. As our chart illustrates, Apple reaching a market cap of $1 trillion would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Back in 2008, the company had just released the iPhone, the iPad was still confined to its secretive labs and the financial crisis had brought Apple’s market value down to $76 billion. 10 years and 1.4 billion sold iPhones later, the company founded in a garage in Los Altos, California in 1976 could make history once again. 🚀@PerspectiveIX Do you own any Apple product?

​​📱Apple Regains the Global Best Selling Smartphone Spot With the iPhone 8 According to Counterpoint’s Market Pulse, #Apple regained the top spot in the global best selling #smartphone list with the #iPhone 8. Seems like strong promotions (“How to shoot on iPhone”) running up to the FIFA World Cup helped the tech giant trigger buyer interest in Europe and other markets. iPhone 8 sales were steady in the US postpaid channels. 🚀@PerspectiveIX 📖 via CounterPoint: prs.pctvix.co/2zgwMrv

♻️Daisy: Apple's Recycling Robot It's capable of recovering valuable components from nine #iPhone models & succeeds where traditional recyclers fail. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ Fewer than 10% of Twitter users actively call out fake news. (Source: The Drum) INSIGHT 🔺 The Facebook algorithm apocalypse that never came: prs.pctvix.co/2rFp2ZP OTHER NEWS ⚫️ ‘Black Dot of Death’: Don’t open this #iPhone message: prs.pctvix.co/2rFprLP 🔓 Researchers warn of critical flaw affecting PGP and S/MIME: t.me/iXNews/25277 🇬🇧 Revealed: Advice to Tory MPs on how to be 'real' on Instagram: prs.pctvix.co/2rFMdDB 🇦🇺 Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones: prs.pctvix.co/2rGRsTe — You are enough. You have enough. You do enough. Happy Mental Health Awareness Week! Ben, @iXNews

​​🎞Power of Compound Growth The entire Sun render farm for Toy Story (1995) had (v roughly) 1bn CPU transistors. #Apple’s A8 SoC (iPhone 6): 2bn. That is, on a basic measure, a 2 year old phone now has more computing power than was used to render Toy Story. Image: the Pixar render farm in 1995. Half of an #iPhone. #History 🚀@PerspectiveIX 🌀 ⁣http://prs.pctvix.co/TelegramIX

​​📱The Global Top 10 iPhone Apps The top ten #iPhone apps in the world last month had a combined download figure of 68 million. According to Priori Data, at the top of the list was the ever popular #WhatsApp with 9 million. Also of note this month is the entry of the mobile versions of the games #PUBG and #Fortnite. The battle royale style shooters have risen to enormous levels of popularity on PC and console, and, as can be seen from this chart, are now beginning to make their mark on the mobile market with a combined download total of 21 million downloads to iPhones in March. 🚀@PerspectiveIX 🌀 ⁣http://prs.pctvix.co/TelegramIX