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Article · June 26, 2024

Apple’s Transistor Budget

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

At Google Cloud Next, Google Workspace Unveiled AI-Powered Innovations

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

The Chasm for Virtual Reality is Deep and Wide

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 · March 24, 2022

The Business Case for the Mac

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

Best Product Beats Best Bundle

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

Employee Experience and Modern IT

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

Apple and Developer Satisfaction With App Store

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

Enterprise Workplace Epiphanies

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

Hybrid Work Is Here To Stay, But Not Without An Effort

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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