TEK2day

Operating at the Intersection of Technology and the Capital Markets

    Tag: App Store

    • Between Here and The Metaverse

      Facebook needs to build a bridge between its present product portfolio and a Metaverse-centric future. iOS users began to opt out of iOS app tracking when iOS 14.5 was released in April 2021 as part of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency policy. iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV apps are required to request users’ permission to track…

    • Apple’s App Store Revenue Haircut

      The EU appears to have punctured Apple’s 30% App Store fee structure. What if the United States and other countries were to follow suit? Below we estimate Apple’s App Store revenue paid to third-party app developers in 2020 at $45.0 billion. This figure represents 70% of the total gross amount of $64.3 billion. The $64.3…

    • BlackRock’s Missed Cloud Opportunity

      The ETF giant missed an opportunity years ago to build its version of the App Store for Capital Markets-related financial technology. BlackRock (tkr: BLK), announced a partnership with Snowflake (tkr: SNOW), earlier this week. Per the partnership BlackRock will introduce Aladdin Data Cloud where clients may access pre-defined Aladdin data sets, proprietary client data and…

    • The Marriage of Big Tech and Big Government

      A Big Tech vs. Big Government showdown is far less likely than a marriage of the titans. Whether it be Google’s search monopoly, the Facebook/ Twitter/ TikTok social media oligopoly, the AWS/ Azure/ GCP oligopoly, the App Store/ Google Play duopoly, or the iOS/Android duopoly, the amount of power and influence concentrated among the world’s…