
Highlights from Richard Watson’s latest Brainmail:
- In the UK, 5.5 million homes (around 20% of all homes) now possess a voice activated assistant.
- 20 per cent of 3-5-year-olds now own their own iPad.
- Google and Facebook have more than a fifth of the world’s advertising spending (they have 50-60 per cent of digital advertising spend).
- The terms and conditions for Amazon’s Kindle are 73,198 words long and would take around 9 hours to read. I checked this out (link) and the terms are made up from 20 documents, plus the privacy notice.
- Compared to the 400 deaths per year from terrorism, more Europeans drown in their own bathtubs, and ten times more die from falling down the stairs.