For Netflix and Amazon, it means that — maybe for the first time — neither will be able to get what they want simply by winning a bidding war with HBO or FX. What face does one make when overbidding on a hot TV project turns into an underbid? That Apple money is real. […]

➝ Video Heute Vormittag hatte ich die Kids; den Rest des Tages schnipselte ich in Final Cut am nächsten #one Video. Deshalb konnte ich heute nur zwischendurch in den heiß erwarteten Forstall-Talk, das erste öffentliche Interview nach seinem Rauswurf vor fünf Jahren, reinschauen. Genau genommen habe ich die erste Hälfte mit Hugo Fiennes, Nitin Ganatra

Steven Sinofsky, bis 2012 verantwortlich für die Windows Abteilung bei Microsoft, über Apples diesjährige WWDC: Like many iPad users I’ve been surprised and disappointed at the pace of iPad hardware changes (as I’ve tweeted about often, iPad is my primary device in terms of hours of usage and where I do writing, financials, and slides,

Tom Wehmeier liefert Zahlen, die schwer vorstellbar sind: We have reached an important tipping point for the games industry; the most ambitious entrepreneurs starting out today will no longer dream about getting to 10s or even 100s of millions of users. For the first time, the idea of getting to a billion users is a

Having appeared in various shapes and sizes since Android 4.4; the amorphous blob that defined Google’s emoji appearance since 2013 is being retired. […] The „blob“ character seen in previous versions of Android has been a divisive character; morphing over time from an alien, into a consistent gumdrop shape. In Android O, the gumdrop is

Steven Levy über Steve Jobs „letzte Produktveröffentlichung“. It’s probably more accurate to say that Apple Park is the architectural avatar of the man who envisioned it, the same man who pushed employees to produce those signature products. In the absence of his rigor and clarity, he left behind a headquarters that embodies both his autobiography

(Vimeo) GIPHY (Laden) exportiert euch seit Version 2.6.0 alle GIFs auch als Live Photos (um sie sich dann beispielsweise auf den iPhone-Sperrbildschirm zu kleben).

There’s a joke that crops up whenever companies like Uber, Lyft, and BlaBlaCar talk about ridesharing. “’Shared mobility’? This already exists: it’s the bus,” says Citymapper founder and CEO Azmat Yusuf. “It’s sort of like Uberpool, but you put fifty people on it.” While other tech startups have focused on cars, Citymapper has always prioritised public