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Jagoda: Swift incorporates features from Python, Ruby, Go, and Lisp
“There's features of Python, Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Go and even hints of languages like Java and Lisp that they've incorporated into it”
Apple holds 10% and Android 45-50% of global phone sales
“In as much as Apple has about, well, in the launch quarter, they have about 10% of all the phones sold on Earth, and Android has another 45 to 50% although only about two-thirds of those are Google Android and one-third are in China and don't have any Google s…”
Chan: China generated 29% of Apple's global revenue in 2015
“In 2015, China was 29% of Apple's total global revenues.”
Chen: Oil companies make Apple, Amazon, and Google look small
“Not many companies make the tech giants like Apple and Amazon and Google look small, but the oil companies definitely do.”
Mars: Apple built a $1 billion data center for Siri's launch
“Apple built a one billion dollar data center at the time that Siri was released.”
Evans: Tech giants occupy the top five spots by market valuation
“Today, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and yes, Microsoft are all the five, are the five biggest companies on the stock exchange.”
Evans: Apple holds $237 billion in cash, Google holds $73 billion
“Apple, meanwhile, has two hundred and thirty seven billion dollars in gross cash on its balance sheet. Google has seventy three billion dollars.”
Evans: Big Tech annual capital expenditure reached $34 billion in 2015
“Annual capex across these companies has gone from one billion dollars in 2000 to thirty four billion dollars in 2015.”
Evans: Apple holds 15% of global phone sales, Android 50-60%
“Apple has about 15% of all the phones sold on Earth, and Android is the next 50 to 60%, and then the rest are feature phones that are converting very fast to those 35 dollar Androids I talked about earlier.”
Evans: Apple devices account for the majority of global mobile web browsing
“Apple devices have a majority of all the web browsing happening on mobile devices.”
Evans: Apple has 10% of global phone sales vs Android's 50%
“Apple has maybe 10% of all the phones being sold on Earth, but Android has maybe 50%.”