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Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n
Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n
Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n
Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n
Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n
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\u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n
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Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n
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The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
\"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? 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Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? 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\u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? 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But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? 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Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
\u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
<\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
The meteoric rise of Android is a poster child for disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Mobile OS Disruption: 3 Key Insights from the Surging Rise of Android","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-04-07 00:29:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-07 07:29:00","post_content":"\n <\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
For business leaders to mirror this prototypical market dominance coup they must embrace the ideals at the core of this rise: find hidden opportunities in edge-case scenarios, look out for swift disruptive trends, and focus on being first-to-market, and not best-in-market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meteoric rise of Android is a poster child for disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Mobile OS Disruption: 3 Key Insights from the Surging Rise of Android","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-04-07 00:29:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-07 07:29:00","post_content":"\n <\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
For business leaders to mirror this prototypical market dominance coup they must embrace the ideals at the core of this rise: find hidden opportunities in edge-case scenarios, look out for swift disruptive trends, and focus on being first-to-market, and not best-in-market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meteoric rise of Android is a poster child for disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Mobile OS Disruption: 3 Key Insights from the Surging Rise of Android","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-04-07 00:29:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-07 07:29:00","post_content":"\n <\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In fact, data from Google shows that Android is still grappling with a massively fragmented user base spread across its current thirteen Android versions. However, the cost of this fragmentation pales in light of the first-mover advantage Google achieved by moving fast. With first-mover advantage, it was easier for Android to achieve top-dog status, a fundamental insight leaders aspiring to drive disruptive change in their industries must internalize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For business leaders to mirror this prototypical market dominance coup they must embrace the ideals at the core of this rise: find hidden opportunities in edge-case scenarios, look out for swift disruptive trends, and focus on being first-to-market, and not best-in-market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meteoric rise of Android is a poster child for disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Mobile OS Disruption: 3 Key Insights from the Surging Rise of Android","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-04-07 00:29:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-07 07:29:00","post_content":"\n <\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In fact, data from Google shows that Android is still grappling with a massively fragmented user base spread across its current thirteen Android versions. However, the cost of this fragmentation pales in light of the first-mover advantage Google achieved by moving fast. With first-mover advantage, it was easier for Android to achieve top-dog status, a fundamental insight leaders aspiring to drive disruptive change in their industries must internalize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For business leaders to mirror this prototypical market dominance coup they must embrace the ideals at the core of this rise: find hidden opportunities in edge-case scenarios, look out for swift disruptive trends, and focus on being first-to-market, and not best-in-market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meteoric rise of Android is a poster child for disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Mobile OS Disruption: 3 Key Insights from the Surging Rise of Android","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-04-07 00:29:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-07 07:29:00","post_content":"\n <\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In terms of time to market, Nokia and Google each had a relatively equal amount of time to bring their operating systems to market. Corness Business Professors Timo O. Vuori and Quy N. Huy researched this topic in their journal on \"Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle.\" They found that Nokia erroneously focused on getting the right corporate structures in place to launch a formidable assault. On the other hand, Google quickly assessed the situation and acquired and deployed a yet-immature Android OS to capitalize on an emerging trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, data from Google shows that Android is still grappling with a massively fragmented user base spread across its current thirteen Android versions. However, the cost of this fragmentation pales in light of the first-mover advantage Google achieved by moving fast. With first-mover advantage, it was easier for Android to achieve top-dog status, a fundamental insight leaders aspiring to drive disruptive change in their industries must internalize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For business leaders to mirror this prototypical market dominance coup they must embrace the ideals at the core of this rise: find hidden opportunities in edge-case scenarios, look out for swift disruptive trends, and focus on being first-to-market, and not best-in-market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meteoric rise of Android is a poster child for disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Mobile OS Disruption: 3 Key Insights from the Surging Rise of Android","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-04-07 00:29:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-07 07:29:00","post_content":"\n <\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other area which remains a store of huge potential for messaging apps is in their use by businesses. The number of enterprises which today use messengers to interact with their clients is relatively small but that is set to change according to Joshua March<\/a>, an expert in social media-based customer service and author of the forthcoming book \u201cMessage Me\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n March stresses that companies need to understand how messaging, compared to other digital channels, is \u201ca different communication paradigm\u201d whose influence is only growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe messaging platforms are already dominant in terms of both overall communication channels and application usage,\u201d says the author. \u201cThese patterns are becoming more ingrained with each passing month, year, and generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n March believes the convenience of messaging apps and the fact that they enable organizations to answer consumer queries in real-time means they will likely replace phone calls and e-mails, something which \u201cwill have a massively positive impact on the customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, regardless of any innovative features a messenger might incorporate or which businesses it partners with, it seems unlikely that a single one will ever dominate the market in the way that, for example, Google does with search. While they remain free, most users are likely to sign up to several services and use them for different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the landscape is diverse and it looks as though the messaging app wars have only just begun.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Messaging Apps Vie For Domination in High Stakes Global War (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/messaging-apps-vie-for-domination-in-high-stakes-global-war-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":792,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-03-09 22:43:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-10 06:43:00","post_content":"\n Have you noticed the shift? Apple understands luxury B2C retail better than any other tech giant. And, apparently, selling $1,000+ phone is a not a bad way to make money. Apple's pricing strategy is either a clever way to bolster revenue despite underperforming unit sales or a sign of product maturity and innovation stagnation. Only time will tell whether this approach pays off in the long run.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Apple iPhone X Sales and Revenue (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/apple-iphone-x-sales-and-revenue-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":830,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-01-13 01:40:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-01-13 09:40:00","post_content":"\n Mobile Payment usage is on the rise globally, it won't be long until credit cards are completely digitized.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Number of Mobile Payment Users From 2009-2016 (Infographic)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/number-of-mobile-payment-users-from-2009-2016-infographic\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_5"};
In terms of time to market, Nokia and Google each had a relatively equal amount of time to bring their operating systems to market. Corness Business Professors Timo O. Vuori and Quy N. Huy researched this topic in their journal on \"Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle.\" They found that Nokia erroneously focused on getting the right corporate structures in place to launch a formidable assault. On the other hand, Google quickly assessed the situation and acquired and deployed a yet-immature Android OS to capitalize on an emerging trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, data from Google shows that Android is still grappling with a massively fragmented user base spread across its current thirteen Android versions. However, the cost of this fragmentation pales in light of the first-mover advantage Google achieved by moving fast. With first-mover advantage, it was easier for Android to achieve top-dog status, a fundamental insight leaders aspiring to drive disruptive change in their industries must internalize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For business leaders to mirror this prototypical market dominance coup they must embrace the ideals at the core of this rise: find hidden opportunities in edge-case scenarios, look out for swift disruptive trends, and focus on being first-to-market, and not best-in-market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The meteoric rise of Android is a poster child for disruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Mobile OS Disruption: 3 Key Insights from the Surging Rise of Android","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-12-27 20:45:15","post_modified_gmt":"2019-12-28 04:45:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siliconvalley.center\/blog\/mobile-os-disruption-3-key-insights-from-the-surging-rise-of-android\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2018-04-07 00:29:00","post_date_gmt":"2018-04-07 07:29:00","post_content":"\n <\/i>World leader WhatsApp hotly pursued by innovative rivals from China and Russia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Facebook-owned WhatsApp is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most popular messaging service and has been since at least 2014, when it could boast 600 million monthly active users. The corresponding figure today is 1.5 billion, over 50 percent more than its closest rival, WeChat, which had 963 million monthly active users at last count (see chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from being the market leader, WhatsApp is also unique for the fact that it is one of the few big-name messengers which does not generate any revenue. The company has said on numerous occasions that working on ways to monetize the app, including charging businesses to use it, although details remain scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, it seems that alongside its ownership of Instagram, Facebook is still using WhatsApp as a means to build its reach. Taken together, the three platforms \u201cgive [Facebook CEO] Zuckerberg a significant user base in just about every major country across the globe,\u201d says Forbes technology journalist and industry commentator Gordon Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeChat, meanwhile, founded one year after WhatsApp in 2010 by Chinese multinational Tencent, is itself deserving of close study, having also enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years. The high monthly active user count it enjoys today is nearly double the figure of 500 million it recorded in 2014 and it is the number one messaging app in China (a country where the majority of Western alternatives, including all of those included in our chart above, are banned). Yet overall WeChat trails WhatsApp by about half a billion users, a difference which widened significantly in 2017 after several years where it remained steady at between 100 to 200 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industry observers predict, however, that WeChat will grow in popularity and geographic reach to the point where it will threaten not only messaging services but a range of other apps and social media platforms too. That\u2019s down to the platform\u2019s \u201capp within an app\u201d architecture which means it offers not just communications but can also handle things like credit card payments and booking an appointment with the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImagine WeChat as everyone having their own website that functions as their profile,\u201d says FinTech expert Robin Kiera. \u201cOn the front end, other users who have your WeChat ID can see what you are posting. Then, on the backend of the webpage, you have the ability to access everything needed for your day to day life and the opportunity to make it public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Kiera, competitors like Facebook and Instagram have worked to expand their platforms\u2019 capabilities but are still \u201clight years away\u201d from being able to offer the kinds of features available in WeChat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of the other messaging apps currently on the market meanwhile, each has its own unique selling point. Telegram, launched by Russian Pavel Durov in 2013, is rapidly gaining in popularity worldwide thanks to its cloud-based architecture and heavy encryption of user data. This latter feature has attracted the ire of several governments, not least of all in the authoritarian states of Russia and Iran where the app is on the brink of being banned outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Telegram courted further controversy through its Initial Coin Offering last month which raised $1.7 billion and attracted interest from a number of major Silicon Valley investors. Durov and his Dubai-based team say they will use the cash to build a blockchain-powered virtual economy which, according to their roadmap, could be up and running by mid-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But critics of the messaging service, which has no revenue streams apart from the ICO, have dismissed the plans as undeliverable and overly ambitious. Justine and Olivia Moore, both venture capital investors at CRV, have raised concerns over the fact that Telegram has yet to clearly outline recruiting and product development milestones on the road to realizing its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe aren\u2019t convinced that Telegram will deliver significant upside beyond the ICO valuation,\u201d they write<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others are more bullish, predicting that Telegram will become the new standard in an era where messaging apps are no longer about just connecting with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"WeChat and other messengers have already proven that they are more than a means of communication,\u201d Andrian Galkin, co-founder of blockchain startup Storiqa, told Forbes<\/a>. \u201cYou can buy tickets, you can pay for stuff on them. This is a whole new era for instant messaging and Telegram is going to be the benchmark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If Telegram does manage to bring its goals to fruition, it remains to be seen if such futuristic additions to simple messaging will prove a hit with users. The rise of WeChat suggests there is a market for platforms which integrate communications with a host of other daily activities although that app\u2019s success has so far been limited largely to China, where it reportedly enjoys cosy relations with the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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