Apple crosses billion active users7/6/2023 Tim Cook likes to begin his days early he’s at his desk by 4am. “I try to touch a lot of things in the company every week.” Shaughn and John It is possibly the first thing you look at each morning, and the last thing you look at each night.Ĭook at the Apple Park campus, which houses 12,000 employees. Here in Australia, if you own a mobile, there is a better than even chance it’s an iPhone, and a good chance you spend an inordinate amount of your life staring into it. (It was valued at $350 billion when Cook took charge.) As of January, there are more than 1 billion iPhones in use around the world. And for years after that, Apple seemed lost in an innovation wilderness, printing money with new iterations of Jobs-era products, but without any new bolts of inspiration.Ī decade later, Apple is the biggest company on the planet – having eclipsed a market capitalisation of $US1 trillion in August 2018 and then $US2 trillion in August 2020. When Jobs, riddled with pancreatic cancer, resigned as CEO in 2011, he told the board he wanted Cook to succeed him. (That didn’t quite come to pass, but the company is still moving $US24 billion of them each year). The iMac had saved Apple from irrelevance the iPod and iTunes saved the music industry from piracy the iPad, also known as the “Jesus tablet”, was predicted to save the print media industry. Upon the release of the iPad in 2010, The Economist depicted Jobs as Christ on its cover. And the saviour moniker rubbed off onto the boss. The iPhone, unveiled in 2008 by Cook’s predecessor, Steve Jobs, had been dubbed the “Jesus phone” due to the religious-like fervour it stirred up in fans. A global sensation 2020 has definitely been the short-form video social network TikTok, with Norway having the largest user growth of 249 percent in 2020.When Tim Cook took over as CEO of Apple, almost exactly 10 years to this very day, it was akin to following on from Jesus Christ. Other popular social networks are Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, Tumblr, Vine and Twitter, while popular mobile chat apps include Whatsapp, WeChat, and Facebook Messenger. On a worldwide scale, Facebook is the undeniable leader of social networks, with approximately 2.74 billion active users around the world. As of January 2019, some 61 percent of users in North America accessed social media via mobile while the global mobile social penetration rate was 42 percent. There are however stark regional differences in use of mobile social networks. An increasing number of social networks are therefore accessible through multiple platforms in order to offer users access to different features according to their needs, time and preferred device. Some networks, such as Facebook, started out as web-based and then extended towards access through mobile browsers and smartphone apps, while other networks, such as Instagram, were initially mobile-only and later transitioned into cross-platform availability as well. Second-ranked Facebook Messenger was estimated to have 1.3 billion monthly active users the year before.Īs mobile devices offer flexibility in terms of on-the-go service access, it is hardly surprising that online usage is shifting towards mobile. One of the most popular mobile messaging apps worldwide is WhatsApp, which as of January 2021 was accessed by two billion users on a monthly basis. Social messaging apps have proven themselves as a more advanced alternative to operator-based text messaging via SMS. This increased usage of social networks is due to the popularization of mobile technologies in the past decade and the increasing availability and affordability of mobile internet.
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