Article · June 26, 2024
Apple’s M-series chips have revolutionized the Mac lineup, bringing a laser focus on performance and efficiency to the company’s laptops (portables), desktops, workstations, and even now cloud silicon. Thanks to the hard work of those dissecting Apple silicon X-ray images and highlighting blocks on
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Article · April 13, 2024
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced a new wave of innovations and enhancements to Google Workspace aimed at revolutionizing the way people work and collaborate. The highlight of this update is the introduction of Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation app that brings real-time collaboratio
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Article · September 27, 2023
Over the summer, we ran a consumer survey exploring their interest and current ownership and usage of VR headsets. With Apple’s announcements of Vision Pro, we hoped to gauge the broader consumer opportunity for VR, and maybe someday AR, but also explore how non-owners of VR headsets and owners of V
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Article · May 2, 2022
After focusing on the inflection point in purchase intent for hybrids and EVs among North American consumers, and EV adoption hurdles keeping the majority of young car buyers locked into gasoline-powered cars (for now), we turn our attention to the role that consumers’ relationship with technology p
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Article · April 21, 2022
The younger car buyers are, the less likely they are to make their next car a hybrid or EV One of the most interesting stories already emerging from our new automotive study is the contradiction between a high degree of consumer favorability towards hybrid vehicles and EVs and softness in near-term
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Article · April 4, 2022
We have just completed new research into consumer perceptions of the changes taking place in the automotive sector. The study, which focuses primarily on likely car buyers in North America, gathered insights from over 1200 adults 18 and up in the United States and Canada. Among the key themes that o
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Article · March 24, 2022
As a part of our broad research into the hardware and software tools that make up critical parts of employee experiences in businesses, we also looked deeply into the opportunity for Macs in the enterprise. Apple has had an interesting relationship with the enterprise. Most, if not all, IT professio
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Article · March 16, 2022
Conventional wisdom in software, especially in enterprise software, is the company that sells the most robust bundle will generally see the apps in that bundle become the default for customers. This has historically been proven true time and again by Microsoft. This was the basis of their main antit
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Article · January 26, 2022
Our first research study of the year was an encompassing look at the modern employee experience from a range of vantage points. One of the lenses we looked through, and the one I want to focus on today, was employee experience as it relates to modern IT. Anyone who has worked at an organization big…
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Article · July 15, 2021
536 developers for Apple’s software platforms participated in a study Creative Strategies fielded in late May. What makes our study results particularly interesting, is the makeup of our panel ended up being small business developers making less than $500,000 a year from their apps. With 55% of them
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Article · April 4, 2021
The last year has led to a number of what I call “COVID Epiphanies” by employees and employers. One of the main concerns I’ve heard was what the impact COVID would have to corporate culture going forward and how much more in control of their destiny employees will become. We have never seen such a…
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Article · February 9, 2021
So much has changed since the start of the pandemic. Our lives have been turned upside down in so many different ways and it isn’t over! Yet we find ourselves thinking about what it will be like when we are allowed back into the office, or back to school, or when we can travel again.…
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