Nov 28, 2021

Mobile News - Week of Thanksgiving 2021 (Final Issue by Edith)

Issue #159 — View online — Suggest a link

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The latest news and information about startups and innovations from the mobile world.

Dear readers,

This issue will be my final Mobile Newsletter! I wanted to send along a quick note to tell you how much I’ve enjoyed being your curator for the past 8 years! I’ve learned so much from your thoughts and input since 2013, and it is so amazing how much the mobile industry has involved. Now every industry is a mobile industry.

As I want to turn my 1000% energy, attention and focus on my fund, Race Capital and our investments, I’d still love to keep in touch. If you want to continue to hear from me, please 👉

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Thanks so much, once again, for your readership. I’m wishing the best to your startup and technology journey.

P.S. If you want to take over this newsletter and be the next curator, apply here.

Here are the top mobile news this week >

Apple - Apple taps TSMC to build custom iPhone 5G modem in 2023
Apple - Self Service Repair
Twitter - Walmart will be the first retailer on its livestream shopping platform
Facebook - 50% of Messenger’s voice traffic comes from Cambodia

Apple taps TSMC to build custom iPhone 5G modem in 2023

Apple is forging a closer partnership with TSMC in hopes of reducing its reliance on Qualcomm with plans to have the Taiwanese chip titan make 5G iPhone modems from 2023.

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Apple announces Self Service Repair

Apple has always been especially reluctant to compromise control (and things like waterproofing), but now it’s announced a program for anyone to buy a range of parts for self-service repair (it already does this for repair shops). In reality, I think, a tiny number of people will take advantage of this - the real audience is regulators, where Apple is getting ahead of the agenda in a way that it hasn’t done for the App Store.

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Walmart will be the first retailer to test Twitter’s new livestream shopping platform

Twitter’s e-commerce initiatives now include livestream shopping and Walmart will be the first retailer to test the new platform. Over the past year, Walmart has invested in live shopping by hosting events across social platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and soon it will debut Twitter’s first-ever shoppable livestream.

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50% of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia.

In 2018, the team at Facebook had a puzzle on their hands. Cambodian users accounted for nearly 50% of all global traffic for Messenger’s voice function, but no one at the company knew why, according to documents released by whistleblower Frances Haugen.

The answer, surprisingly, has less to do with Facebook, and more to do with the complexity of the Khmer language, and the way users adapt for a technology that was never designed with them in mind.

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