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The news in numbers

THE KEY FIGURES DRIVING THE LATEST ISSUES

AND TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY.

[ HARRY DOMANSKI ]

HOW MUCH TA X APPLE PAID IN NEW ZEALAND LAST YEAR.

Despite earning around AU$3.8 billion in New Zealand over the last 10 years, Apple has

apparently not paid a cent of tax to the country’s government. Instead, all $34 million was

handed over to the Australian Government due to Apple running their NZ operation out

of Australia. Among other money-saving tax tricks, Apple has been known to employ the use

of tax havens such as Ireland, but has previously defended itself by saying that “because our

products and services are created, designed and engineered in the US, that’s where the vast

majority of our tax is paid”.

5%

PERCENTAGE OF APPS THAT ARE

STILL USED 30 DAYS AFTER THEY

WERE INSTALLED.

Have a quick scan through your phone’s apps

and try picking out the ones you’re still using a

month after having installed them. According

to a study from analytics company Apps Flyer,

only around 4–5% of apps survive this period,

with the remainder either being deleted or

sitting idly. What’s more, only 10 % survive the

first week, perhaps indicating a user-base with

short attention spans, or developers that are

unable to make useful apps that outlast their

honeymoon phase.

1 BILLION

AMOUNT OF HOURS THE WORLD

SPENDS WATCHING YOUTUBE

E V ER Y DAY.

Google has recently announced some

impressive numbers on its YouTube blog —

every day, 1 billion hours of videos are watched

by people around the globe. For some context,

this is almost 10 times the viewing hours the

company reported just five years ago, and

represent around 80 % of the hours that

Americans spend in front of the T V every day.

This figure also dwarfs competitors Facebook

(100 million hours) and Netflix ( 116 million

hours) in daily video consumption.

8.4 BILLION

NUMBER OF CONNECTED INTERNET

OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICES FORECAST

TO BE IN USE IN 2017.

A study from world-leading IT research

company Gartner Inc has projected a 31 %

increase in the amount of internet-connected

“things” in 2017 from the previous year,

with 8.4 billion devices expected to be

in use worldwide. Not only that, but Gartner

anticipates this number to exceed the

20 billion mark by 2020. With the rise of

Amazon’s ever-present Alexa and Google’s

Home, alongside the addition of ‘smart’

capabilities to mundanities such as

hairbrushes and toasters, this figure is

perhaps more damning than surprising.

HOTSPOT

NEWS IN NUMBERS

AMOUNT OF VR HEADSETS SOLD IN AUSTRALIA THROUGHOUT 2016.

According to market studies by Australian tech research group Telstyle, around 216,000 VR

headsets were sold in Australia through the calendar year of 2016, with around 70% of these

sales being attributed to mobile VR. From this study, Telstyle’s analysts are predicting that

“VR penetration will reach 25.5% of households by 2021”, with the key driving influences being

adoption by AAA games, as well as the emergence of a clear dominating force in the field.

216,

000