Horace Dediu / Asymco:
A survey estimates that Apple Pay users reached 507M worldwide in September 2020, about 50% of the total iPhone userbase, adding ~66M users from September 2019 — IN a recent release, Apple reported that “more than 90% of stores in the US,...
Shubham Agarwal / Fast Company:
Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed up in the last year — In a country where many people are coming online for the first time, ShareChat makes...
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware:
Valve delays Steam Deck from December 2021 to February 2022, citing supply chain issues — Valve has notified customers that it is delaying the Steam Deck for two months, pushing it to February 2022. — “We’re sorry about this,” Valve...
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
Ahead of the holidays, the biggest game releases from EA, Take-Two, and Activision have received poor reviews, capping a difficult year for the industry — Problems with latest ‘Call of Duty,’ ‘Battlefield’ and ‘Grand Theft Auto’ releases follow tough year...
