Dear reader,
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter.
With key iPhone markets nearing saturation, Apple’s other successful products like Apple Watch are fast gaining importance in the company’s revenue mix. According to Matthew Orf, Apple Watch offers an annual revenue opportunity of $70 billion.
Meta recently launched the Meta Quest Pro mixed reality headset. It comes at a price of $1,499, around double the price expected by the market before the launch event. Will this impact its sales? Harmeet Singh Walia finds out.
The Russia-Ukraine war has hit hard the EV market in Europe, with sales increasing 16% YoY in Q2 2022. According to Ayush Bhardwaj, Volkswagen was hurt the most among European OEMs, losing its top-selling EV brand status to Mercedes-Benz.
All this and much more in the news scroll below.
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As expected, Meta launched Meta Quest Pro at Meta Connect 2022. It will be available from October 25, however the Quest Pro’s $1499 price tag...Read more
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Chart of the week: Cellular AIoT Module Shipment Share by AI Capability by 2030 (You may have to enable images to see this chart)
Global foldable smartphones in the 2Q 2022 showed a sell-in volume of 1.91 m units, showing an increase of 250% year on year and 24% quarter on quarter. This result was largely due to an increase in the number of participants in the foldable market, while Samsung still leads.
