Apple turned around its India story in 2019, by doubling its market share to 2%. At the Apple Q1 2020 earnings call for the quarter ending December 28, 2019, Apple confirmed its success story with a quarterly revenue of $ 91.8 Bn, an increase of 9% from the year ago. With respect to India, Apple …
Google has launched Google Play Pass, a new curated gaming subscription service, that is ad free, does not entail in-app purchases, and upfront payments. The Google Play Pass complements Google’s mainstreaming of gaming, and especially its upcoming cloud gaming service, Google Stadia. More importantly, the Play Pass ringfences Android users from potentially embracing Apple Arcade. …
Apple’s play across services software and hardware is refreshing. From the announcements at the Apple Special Event, there is a clear shift in Apple’s positioning. Apple has flipped the entire value proposition: Apple *now* offers an exciting ecosystem, and the devices are mere conduits to access them. This is different from the earlier stance of …
Apple‘s new iPhones, announced yesterday evening at the Steve Jobs theatre, Cupertino had the audience at the edge of their seat. The new iPhones retain the fundamental design language of the predecessors but have got a lot going for them like computational photography, night mode, and some benchmark breaking under-the-hood upgrades. In addition to them, …
At its Show Time keynote, Apple announced a new App Store bundle for gaming named Apple Arcade. Unlike Google’s bet on cloud gaming via its Stadia, Apple Arcade integrates with the App Store, and enables users to subscribe to games available through the App store. Users could play games across devices, including the iPhone, iPad, …
At its March 25 “Show Time” event, held at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, Apple showcased its new bet on digital subscriptions as a potential revenue driver across TV, Gaming, Finance, and News. The Apple announcements can, for the most parts, be termed incremental in nature, with Apple building and refining on the existing …