Illustration: Pablo Delcan The biggest mystery surrounding Google over the past year has concerned its core product, its original and still primary source of revenue: Will search engines be replaced by AI chatbots? In May, the company offered some clarity: “In the next era of search, AI will do the work so you don’t have …
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer In December of last year, Ariel, a 24-year-old content creator in New Jersey, received a message from a French digital-marketing company called Arcads. Ariel makes her living doing marketing videos for brands, who hire her through platforms like Fiverr and Upwork. Arcads had a slightly different request. “They asked if I’d be willing …
Apple has done pretty well for itself selling phones, tablets, computers, and smartwatches — but it didn’t invent any of those things. The company prefers to leave the first drafts of new technologies to other companies, watching them make design mistakes, fumble, and flop. Only after a few years does Apple storm onto the scene …
Uncharted territory. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images For some buyers, Apple Vision Pro’s most compelling use is one that Apple didn’t advertise. It’s a native feature of the device that allows its user to get enormous amounts of attention, in real life and subsequently online, by simply wearing it in public. For a few days, …
Jakarta. Indonesian consumers spend the most mobile app screen time in the world, exceeding six hours per day, as reported in the 2024 State of Mobile by research firm Data.ai. Indonesia emerged as the leader in mobile usage, with users spending over 6 hours daily on mobile apps. Although there was a slight decrease in screen time from …