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CNN (2023-03-24)
“We can assume more methods like the Utah bill could find their way into other states’ plans, especially if actions are not taken at the federal level,” said Michael Inouye, an analyst at ABI Research. “Eventually, if enough states implement similar or related legislation, we could see a more concerted effort at the federal level to codify these (likely) disparate state laws under a US-wide policy.”
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CNN (2023-03-01)
“With the level of user interest and use, companies don’t want to be left behind, so there’s a base incentive to embrace new tech to remain competitive,” said Michael Inouye, an analyst at ABI Research. “If users engage more with a service that means more data for advertising, marketing of goods and services, and potentially stronger customer relationships.”
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The Information (2023-02-13)
Few people inside TikTok expected its explosive growth of the past few years would continue indefinitely. Michael Inouye, principal analyst at ABI Research, said a TikTok slowdown “was going to be inevitable eventually.”
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Technology for You (2023-02-10)
For the past three years, business leaders and organizations have faced an unyielding procession of challenges. As we usher in 2023, many of those challenges persist, and new ones are emerging. Yet, as unwavering as the challenges have been, technology and innovation have proven to be just as resilient. In its new whitepaper, 37 Technology Stats You Need to Know for 2023, global technology intelligence firm ABI Research has identified and highlighted the most impactful forecasts that illuminate the direction in which digital transformation is truly heading.
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Mobile World Live (2023-01-04)
lso speaking to MWL, Michael Inouye, senior analyst with ABI Research, holds a somewhat different view to Gebbie.
In the consumer segment of the metaverse, he argues the competitive space is relatively fragmented, and even though metaverse conversations started relatively recently, the build-up to the future and longer-term visions are based on pre-existing market trends.
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VentureBeat (2022-12-23)
The consumer metaverse, exemplified by immersive games, new shopping experiences and the explosion of VR goggles, is the more visible, hyped side of the metaverse. But there may be far more money to be made in the industrial metaverse, a side that most consumers will never directly see. That’s the prediction of Michael Inouye, principal analyst at ABI Research.
The firm estimates that the industrial metaverse, exemplified by digital twins, augmented field service and predictive maintenance, could grow into a $100 billion market by 2030. That’s larger than the $50 billion consumer metaverse
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Tech News World (2022-12-21)
In some ways, the new tools in Teams Premium make virtual meetings more efficient than in-person meetings, noted Michael Inouye, a principal analyst at ABI Research, a global technology intelligence firm.
“By more efficient, I mean making accessing information from past meetings and managing follow-ups more streamlined and easier,” Inouye told TechNewsWorld.
He explained that in an in-person meeting, any work on a whiteboard might not make it into the meeting notes. Similarly, note-taking is often not shared between participants or could be idiosyncratic to an individual’s note-taking style.
“Creating chapters and tagging the recorded meetings makes searching through archives much more efficient,” he continued. “Rather than trying to recall the date a particular meeting took place by checking your notes, you could search for the topic of interest or other information.”
“These tools could also benefit in-person meetings as well, as those conversations could be recorded and processed in a similar manner, so it isn’t exclusive to virtual,” he added.
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CNN (2022-09-16)
“Apple isn’t always first and increasingly they may seem behind the curve, but when they bring something to market, it tends to be very well executed,” said Michael Inouye, a principal analyst from ABI Research.
Inouye, however, believes an always-on display could reduce the amount of time spent on the device, allowing users to do more without having to search through apps and make the most of multitasking. “When it’s only a quick notification on the lock screen and it’s not interactive, that prevents those unanticipated deviations from our initial task,” he said.
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Tech News World (2022-08-09)
Michael Inouye, a principal analyst at ABI Research, a global technology intelligence firm, agreed that Netflix should not be too concerned about the Apptopia findings. “If Netflix is concerned, then they had unrealistic expectations,” he told TechNewsWorld.
“Breaking into the gaming market as a previous outsider is never an easy task, especially when you are targeting mobile games,” he said.
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Telecom TV (2022-07-21)
The value of metaverse-related market activity could hit $2tn in global revenues by 2030, but there is a risk of developers missing out on lucrative opportunities if the ecosystem fails to implement standards, encourage interoperability and educate consumers, according to a new report from analyst company ABI Research.
Commenting on its findings, ABI principal analyst Michael Inouye told TelecomTV that metaverse-related developments in the streaming video, social media, gaming and digital advertising sectors will be the bedrock of the total addressable market (TAM) for the consumer metaverse, playing a key role in the development of the immersive virtual world.
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The Fast Mode (2022-07-11)
ABI Research, a global technology intelligence firm, sees prevailing growth rates pushing the streaming video, social, gaming, and broader digital advertising markets to collectively clear US$2 trillion by 2030. Headwinds tied to external economic and political factors, coupled with inner-market perceptual issues, however, could put a damper on some of the more optimistic expectations for the metaverse.
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CNN (2022-06-24)
"There are certainly some risks, such as if the voice and resulting AI interactions doesn't match well with the loved ones' memories of that individual," said Micheal Inouye of ABI Research. "For some, they will view this as creepy or outright terrible, but for others it could be viewed in a more profound way such as the example given by allowing a child to hear their grandparent's voice, perhaps for the first time and in a way that isn't a strict recording from the past."
He believes, however, the varying reactions to announcements like this speak to how society will have to adjust to the promise of innovations and their eventual reality in the years ahead.
"We'll definitely see more of these types of experiments and trials — and at least until we get a higher comfort level or these things become more mainstream, there will still be a wide range of responses," he said.
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ReWorked (2022-06-07)
A recent report by ABI Research indicated that the nascent immersive collaboration market could eclipse $22 billion by 2030, representing nearly 35% of the total collaboration market (software/services, dedicated video collaboration and hardware). The metaverse is also expected to contribute to the sector's growth.
As this metaverse develops, said Michael Inouye, principal analyst at ABI Research, it will bring new ways of engaging with content, services and individuals that will make enterprise collaboration a likely area of focus. This evolving set of technologies, alongside changing consumer and employee tastes, are potentially opening a new era in enterprise collaboration this is more immersive, authentic and, potentially, more effective.
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Telecom TV (2022-06-01)
BI Research’s principal analyst Michael Inouye, whose research area is mainly focus on the metaverse, told TelecomTV that some of the methods to protect metaverse users will have to come with a compromise with regards to privacy because, he noted, “identifying and stopping the bulk of these issues is extremely difficult without using some form of AI to monitor these virtual spaces.” To be able to address most safety-related cases, Inouye said, would require “active monitoring by the services, which to some (if not many) is a violation of privacy. In some regards users will have to accept some compromises in privacy for a safer virtual environment. When or if we’ll get to that point, I can’t say for sure, but the current trends don’t look positive.”
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CNN (2022-05-27)
"These have usually been associated with cryptocurrencies where the celebrity will hype it up and then when people invest in it they in turn around and sell their currency at a profit," said Inouye. "This speaks to the less savory side of all of NFT-blockchain-crypto, which is at least in part driven by hype and speculation."
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Tech News World (2022-05-17)
Michael Inouye, a principal analyst at ABI Research, noted that sports has always been the largest driver for livestreaming due to the nature of the programming, size of audience, and market potential.
“One issue with live streaming was latency,” he told TechNewsWorld. “OTT [over-the-top] services in the past lagged behind the live broadcasts by quite a bit. A typical live broadcast is six to eight seconds behind a live event, while livestreaming was 30 to 45 seconds or more behind.”
“Now we’re seeing more live streaming hitting the same broadcast levels — sub 10 seconds — so this, too, is making this type of programming more equitable with traditional broadcast channels,” he said.
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Ad Age (2022-05-04)
The development of the metaverse is expected to grow the market for digital collaboration tools to $22 billion by 2030, according to a new report by technology intelligence firm ABI Research.
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Telecoms.Com (2022-03-23)
The market is evolving to accommodate new use cases, according to ABI Research, which is good news from a financial point of view because it expects the value of the sector to more than double by 2030 to $23.9 billion.
Some of these new opportunities have arisen due to the overlap between CDN, multi-access edge computing (MEC) and cloud (CDN specialist Akamai paying $900 million for alternative public cloud provider Linode is a great example of this overlap). Hence ABI Research expects CDNs to be increasingly used for services like security for networks, content and enterprise data, as well as hosting edge compute applications.
“In some regards calling the collection of companies covered in this report, CDN companies, is a misnomer,” said Michael Inouye, principal analyst, metaverse markets and technologies, at ABI Research. “Companies that offer CDN services represent a diverse group, with large incumbents with extensive product portfolios like Akamai, to smaller companies focused on agility and innovation like Cloudflare, who have already brushed off the CDN moniker and are already offering some services more akin to the cloud platforms like AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei Cloud, etc. who also offer CDN services.”
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The Wall Street Journal (2022-01-24)
“I can see a scenario where titles like Call of Duty are released cross-platform but are only made available to Microsoft’s cloud and subscription services,” said Michael Inouye of ABI Research.
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ECT News Network (2022-01-19)
While play-to-earn gaming is gaining in popularity, most of the excitement and interest is tied to future opportunity, rather than changes to current gaming business models, explained Michael Inouye, a principal analyst with ABI Research.
"The larger opportunity comes from the hype surrounding the metaverse, where digital goods will be earned, bought and sold like real-world, physical goods," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Gaming is a natural entry point because it's already virtual and 3D and gamers are accustomed to dealing with virtual assets and items, so there is certainly strong growth potential," he said.
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ECT News (2021-11-03)
Michael Inouye, a principal analyst at ABI Research, agreed that the metaverse as a realized concept is still many years away, but as that future is approached, there are many ways a platform like Mesh for Teams can advance the cause.
"Digital assets and virtual goods, for example, will play a larger role in how users express themselves and represent their digital personas and places of work," he told TechNewsWorld.
"We can consider the rise in NFTs [or non-fungible tokens] as an early indicator -- along with virtual goods and cosmetics in gaming -- that the marketplace is starting to view virtual items on a similar level as physical and real goods," he said.
"This is why many compare the metaverse to the internet," he observed. "It will be the fabric that connects what are currently disparate experiences and applications together."
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Tech News World (2021-10-12)
Squid Game is a perfect example," noted Michael Inouye, a principal analyst at ABI Research.
"You can imagine what the opportunity would look like if this partnership was already in place and Walmart was the only place for official Squid Game Halloween costumes," he told the E-Commerce Times.
He added that there is a lot of value but also a lot of cost in original programming, but to date, no one has done as well as Netflix with it.
"This allows Walmart to generate some of the same benefits to their core operations of an in-house streaming service without having to make those investments in original content," he said.
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TelecomsTV (2021-09-23)
The combination of 5G, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) offers enormous opportunities for creating new multimedia services with deeply engaging experiences. Faster data speeds and increased capacity provided by 5G support high-density traffic in large venues like stadiums and arenas and, when coupled with MEC and AI, 5G enables new experiences like live in-stadium multi-view switching (live with sub-second latency), live game analytics, multiplayer location-based gaming, and increased depth of immersion and interactivity via augmented/virtual reality. Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research identified and evaluated several key developing market opportunities that are location-based, leverage enabling technologies like 5G and MEC, and will generate a market potential exceeding US$8.5 billion by 2026. This figure includes in-venue (stadiums, concerts, airports) premium content, services, and location-based gaming.
“5G, edge compute, and AI make content and multimedia services more contextualized, interactive, and accessible wherever it is deployed and enables more innovative and immersive experiences. Solutions based on these technologies can create additional value for location-based data, services, and marketing. Not only will they empower enhanced experiences in public venues, but also engender new ways of monetizing content,” explains Michael Inouye, Principal Analyst, Next-Gen Content Technologies at ABI Research.
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VirtualReality Magazine (2021-05-20)
Traditional office work is also becoming less important in product development and construction, and collaboration is shifting to the virtual world. Technology consultancy ABI Research evaluates VR / AR solutions from early market leaders for immersive collaboration.
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Advanced Television (2021-04-07)
The global pandemic and the shift to remote work/schooling engendered a captive audience that accelerated trends within the media and entertainment industry. Streaming video subscriptions climbed as households stacked subscriptions, driving subscription revenues to over $69 billion (€58bn) in 2020.
Gaming in 2020 saw YoY growth of over 22 per cent with ISPs and CDNs reporting heavy traffic from game downloads. According to research from global tech market advisory firm ABI Research, in total, the o
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Electronics 360 (2021-04-07)
he COVID-19 pandemic caused much distress in the electronics industry, but it also propelled media consumption to new heights in 2020 as consumers were forced to endure lockdowns and social distancing mandates, according to a new report from ABI Research.
Streaming video subscriptions climbed in 2020 with revenues growing to more than $69 billion with year-over-year growth of more than 22% as companies reported heavy traffic from game downloads. Meanwhile, the online video and gaming markets reached $330 billion in 2020.
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CNN International (2020-12-22)
"While there certainly could be a dip, video conferencing and virtual collaboration is here to stay," Michael Inouye, Video & OTT Principal Analyst at global tech market advisory ABI Research, told CNN Business.
Firms that were once reluctant to let their employees work remotely, or worried about potential security issues from using cloud-based services, have now been forced to do so and learned that it's not as bad as they imagined, Inouye said.
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Investopedia (2020-12-16)
Michael Inouye, an analyst with ABI Research, offered similar views: "Just as we're seeing a great deal of scrutiny being directed at social networks like Facebook, the gaming companies are no less subject to similar standards and evaluation, and in this case, they are taking a proactive approach to work towards a safe environment for all gamers.
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ECT News Network (2020-12-15)
Michael Inouye, a principal analyst with ABI Research, explained that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are trying to build communities around their platforms and the social aspect of that is a critical piece of it.
"Just as we're seeing a great deal of scrutiny being directed at social networks like Facebook," he told TechNewsWorld, "the gaming companies are no less subject to similar standards and evaluation and in this case, they are taking a proactive approach to work towards a safe environment for all gamers."
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Tech News World (2020-09-22)
Michael Inouye, a principal analyst with ABI Research, explained that a monthly Xbox Live Gold membership is $9.99 a month or $24.99 a quarter, which amounts to $8.33 a month. Ultimate Game Pass is $14.99 a month, which includes access to select PC, console, and cloud titles, cloud gaming, and Xbox Live Gold.
"In effect, you are getting everything beyond Gold for $5 per month, assuming you went with the monthly Gold plan," Inouye told TechNewsWorld.
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CGTN (2020-04-01)
"The impact of the COVID-19 has and will continue to take a toll on the global economy until it is contained. But not all markets are equally impacted, and the cloud services and content markets are a prime example," said Michael Inouye, Principal Analyst at ABI Research.
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Computer Weekly (2020-02-24)
Analyst ABI Research predicts standalone virtual reality applications to be the main driver of substantial growth as the market strikes right balance between price, performance and ease of setup
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Rapid TV News (2020-01-29)
A study by tech market advisory firm ABI Research is predicting that fuelled by subscription and advertising revenue, and boosted by the new direct-to-consumer plays, the global over-the-top market will surpass US$200 billion by 2024.
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Digital TV Europe (2020-01-09)
ccording to a new study from ABI Research, the growth of DTC OTT will continue to create a challenging market for vMVPDS. The report says that the arrival of even more DTC services – such as HBO Max and NBCU’s Peacock – will further fragment the landscape and lead to the potential decline of vMVPD subscriber numbers.
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Electronics 360 (2019-11-14)
By 2024, ABI forecasts that there will be more than 42 million active cloud gaming users and overall market revenue is expected to reach $4.5 billion. During this forecast period, cloud gaming will manage a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 61.7%, but will still represent a small segment of the overall gaming landscape.
“Google Stadia has brought a great deal of attention to cloud gaming, but the market has a deeper history and already has a growing list of companies operating in the space, serving both consumers and business customers, including telcos and pay-TV operators,” said Michael Inouye, principal analyst at ABI Research. “While technical and behavioral aspects of the market are in a much better place today, the greatest competitive hurdle remains the incumbent gaming platforms, which will lead to a more protracted transition to the cloud.”
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Fierce Video (2019-11-13)
According to ABI Research, the growth will come from both existing and new gamers attracted to paying subscription fees instead of high hardware costs, more device flexibility and potentially better graphics quality. By 2024, there will be more than 42 million active cloud gaming users and overall market revenue could reach $4.5 billion.
But the firm said despite a 61.7% compound annual growth rate from 2018 to 2024, the cloud gaming market will still represent a relatively small segment of the overall gaming landscape through this forecasting window.
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TechNewsWorld (2019-08-28)
"Facebook has to walk a thin line when it comes to sharing information like location, even if this data is only seen by close friends," said Michael Inouye, principal analyst at ABI Research, a technology advisory company headquartered in Oyster Bay, New York.
"On the one hand, Facebook can avoid potential issues if the location information is ambiguous like 'John is on the go' versus 'John is at the grocery store' or even more specifically 'John is at Safeway,'" he told TechNewsWorld.
"But if the information is too generic, then it loses value," Inouye continued. "Saying someone is 'on the go' doesn't convey much information to the other side and if it isn't deemed valuable enough, then users might lose interest."
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Exame (2019-04-14)
Michael Inouye, a video analyst at ABI Research, says the series "stood out for a new approach to products and services, which is increasingly becoming the status quo " of the entertainment industry. "Eventually this can reduce the fascination of these services to some former cable TV subscribers who look at subscriptions as a content curation at a lower cost," Michael Inouye points out.
For him, the key to success will be with the company that knows how to measure the amount of programs offered to the viewer, which "allows a service to diversify its risk", and the production of big series, in the style of "Game of Thrones" which persuade the consumer to continue paying the subscription. "In this sense, AT & T is adopting a more appropriate strategy to address these changes, albeit at the expense of some of the magical HBO of the past," says ABI Research analyst.
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ECT News Network (2019-02-06)
Although some members of the advertising community have cried foul about Apple locking down access to location data, its likely that any impact from the move will be short-lived, suggested Michael Inouye, a principal analyst at ABI Research, a technology advisory company headquartered in Oyster Bay, New York.
"If this comes to pass and Safari's access to the accelerometer and gyroscope are deactivated by default, then this will likely cause some early problems where ads or features may not run appropriately, but there are plenty of workarounds to make this mostly a non-issue," he told TechNewsWorld.
"If a user is purposefully using an AR Web-based application, then the individual would likely have enabled this feature from the start, or the application could notify and prompt the user to enable it -- much like we have today with permissions on phones," Inouye observed.
"Further, if we're looking at 360-video, users can also swipe the screen to move the camera/view," he pointed out, "so use of an IMU (inertial measurement unit) is not necessary for all experiences."
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Twice/CES (2019-01-23)
"The drastic price cuts that we've seen certainly don't bode well for the platform," echoed Michael Inouye, principal analyst for ABI Research. "We should soon learn if the PC manufacturers are committed to the market."
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