Mobile Reading List
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October 30, 2015
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Happy Halloween! :) I am very excited about our demo day later this afternoon. Be sure to follow me on Twitter and check out live tweets from demo day.
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Global Startup Battle is back for 2015!
Global Startup Battle 2015 is happening Nov 13-23! Host a Startup Weekend and add your city to the world’s largest startup competition with over 30,000 entrepreneurs, mentors, and judges: globalstartupbattle.co.
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WSJ
Android is the world’s most widely used operating system, powering more than one billion phones and other devices made by dozens of companies. Chrome powers personal computers, most often laptops, called Chromebooks. They are niche players, accounting for less than 3% of PCs according to research firm IDC.
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Jillian D'Onfro
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Business Insider
"2G Tuesdays" that will give all employees an opportunity to see what using the app with an incredibly slow connection feels like and help close the "empathy gap" between Silicon Valley and emerging markets.
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Ingrid Lunden
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Techcrunch
Carrier billing may not seem like a big deal to a lot of iPhone users in mature economies, where payment card and bank account penetration are both very high.But in emerging economies, where card use is far lower and many consumers might not even have bank accounts, a phone can essentially serve as a proxy for both: mobile users can top up their phones with cash at shops, and those phones can then, by way of carrier billing, be used to pay for goods purchased on those devices, usually under a certain limit. Apps, music and books fall well within that limit.
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Recode
AT&T added more than two million customers as well, though its gains came mostly from cars and connected devices as well as its Cricket prepaid business, rather than from core smartphone additions. Verizon also added customers, gaining 1.3 million in the quarter.
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Michael Crider
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Android Police
Here are some of the changes: United States - previous limit $200, current limit $400Canada - previous limit $210, current limit $500United Kingdom - previous limit £150, current limit £300Most Euro currency countries - previous limit €199, current limit €350Mexico - previous limit MXN 2,500, current limit MXN 7,500Australia - previous limit $200, current limit $550India - previous limit INR 16,000, current limit INR 26,000Indonesia - previous limit IDR 2,200,000, current limit 5,500,500Brazil - previous limit BRL 500 - current limit BRL 1,500
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Jim Conaghan
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NAA
50% newspaper digital audience is composed of those who use only mobile devices (smartphones or tablets) for their newspaper digital content and 8 in 10 of the newspaper mobile audience use smartphones exclusively for access.
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Lucas Matney
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Techcrunch
Apple’s revenue in China grew to $12.51 billion in Q4 2015 from $6.29 billion in 2014.
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