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A big announcement was SnapML. This allows developers bring their own machine learning models into Snap Lens Studio. They highlighted language learning and commerce as early use cases. They also announced 3D face meshing, skeleton tracking, and AR material programming. Importantly, Snap also announced products built in Lens Studio work in all Snap ... See more

Today, multitouch smartphones are getting on for 15 years old, and the S curve is flattening out. All the obvious stuff has been built, Apple and Google won, and the new iPhone isn’t very exciting, because it can’t be. So, we ask “what’s the next generation?”

But some products can develop into habits. In thinking about how and why, I came up with a highly unscientific list of qualities that a product likely needs to meet:

In this way, Instagram, and not Amazon, is building the closest analog to China’s Tmall with a collection of modern and luxury goods that appeal to younger and more affluent audiences. Facebook is building the anti-Amazon. Mosseri and team have developed a resource that serves as a marketing engine and audience development tool. They’ve taken Veris... See more