MobileViews Podcast 258: WWDC highlights and dimlights

In this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

1. VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 devices is worse than we thought
2. Yahoo Messenger shutting down on July 17
3. NTIA
   Sixty-four percent of Americans used a smartphone in 2017, compared with 53 percent in 2015, and tablet use increased to 32 percent from 29 percent during the same period. The use of wearable devices such as smart watches and fitness bands—still a nascent product category—grew significantly to 8 percent of Americans, from 1 percent two years earlier. Smart TV and TV-connected device use also continued to increase, growing by seven percentage points to 34 percent from 2015 to 2017.

   Laptop use was unchanged at 46 percent of Americans, and desktop computer use continued to slide to 30 percent in 2017—meaning tablet use surpassed desktop computer use for the first time (see Figure 3).

4. The Verge WWDC highlights

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