Facebook has removed a controversial app, dubbed Facebook Research, from the iOS app store after coming under fire for essentially paying teenagers to let the company spy on their mobile activity. The story on Tuesday by TechCrunch found that since 2016 the company has been paying users, mostly teens, to download a VPN app that gives the […]
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Social media apps and mobile device operating systems introduced a number of features this year to help people be more mindful of their digital usage. The initiatives are part of the Time Well Spent movement, a concept introduced by former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris whose Ted Talk “A handful of tech companies control billions
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On September 17, Apple will release iOS 12, a big update to its mobile operating system that’s packed with a lot of useful user features that are also a boon to marketers. Let’s dig right in. Changes to notifications make it easier for users to opt in — and opt out.The update gives users more
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Last week, Google received the largest antitrust fine ever imposed by the European Commission (EC). At the highest level, that fine is about Google’s dominance of the world’s smartphone market. Android is far and away the dominant operating system, with a global market share of about 77 percent (or more). In the US, the iOS-Android
Google and Apple are having their “Alfred Nobel moment.” Nobel was the Swedish inventor of dynamite who also established the Nobel Prize. Yesterday, Apple introduced a range of features at its WWDC developer conference that are intended to help you spend less time on your smartphone. That followed similar moves by Google at last month’s I/O conference.
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Earlier today Apple wrapped its WWDC 2018 developer keynote, with a long list of announcements. Apple has four platforms, iOS, MacOS, Apple TV and WatchOS. Each one saw new upgrades or features. We’ll have “what it means” stories about several of the announcements later and tomorrow, but the following is a summary overview of everything
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Apple rolled out iOS 11.3 today. Among the features are new and improved AR capabilities, health records, data privacy, Animoji, Business Chat, battery health and a few others. Whether Apple can help mainstream AR in apps is an open question and worthy of separate consideration. The two features I want to discuss here are Business
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Just because email is a digital marketing stalwart doesn’t mean it’s standing still. In fact, email in 2017 is finding its place as a foundational part of the growing martech ecosystem. And it’s gaining in utility and complexity through software innovations from players like Apple, with its iOS upgrades, and Google, with its changes to
In a redesign of its mobile apps announced on Monday, Reddit will add an option for people to only view non-text posts, which could help its fledgling video advertising business, and support for Apple’s Safari View Controller, which would enable people to block ads on publishers’ sites accessed through Reddit’s iOS app. The social network
Apple released iOS 11 last month, bringing quite a few changes to Apple Mail. Because there are currently more iPhone users in the US than ever before — representing 46% of US smartphone subscribers, according to comScore stats from earlier this year — it’s important for email marketers to understand how the new operating system
