Ever since the beta for Portrait Mode came out last Fall, I’ve been shooting a ton with it, and learning how to make the most of this amazing feature. I can get photos with it that I never thought possible with a phone, but it can be a little finicky to use. Here are my best tips to get great

This tends to point to the conclusion that for most companies, for voice to work really well you need a narrow and predictable domain. You need to know what the user might ask and the user needs to know what they can ask. This was the structural problem with Siri – no matter how well

Apropos Overcast: (…) the Google ads made relatively little — about 90% of Overcast’s revenue still comes from paid subscriptions, which are doing better now. The presence of ads for non-subscribers is currently more important than the ads themselves, so I can replace them with pretty much anything. So I rolled my own tasteful in-house

Ich persönlich habe kein Interesse an Carpool Karaoke (Trailer) oder Planet of the Apps (Trailer) – Apples neuen Hollywood-Lernprojekten. Ihre Motivation den Fuß in die Tür von Videoproduktionen zu bekommen, ist aber allemal interessant. Ich bin fest davon überzeugt, dass Apple ein TV-Bundle zum Start seiner TV-Box geplant hatte (so wie es die Gerüchteküche damals

In many ways, you could go so far as to say there’s no tablet market, just an iPad market. In other words, people don’t buy tablets, they buy cheap video/game players (which Apple wants no part of) or they buy iPads. That’s what Steve Jobs meant when he called iPad the future of computing. His

It’s good to see Apple doing something about this. A limit of three prompts per year, and a system-wide switch to turn off all such prompts, go a long way toward fixing the problem from the user’s perspective. If Apple can figure out a fairer way to compute the average rating for apps across updates,

Hugo Barra verlässt nach dreieinhalb Jahren den chinesischen Smartphone-Hersteller Xiaomi – aus persönlichen Gründen. Ich nutze den prominenten Abgang, der die bereits geringen Hoffnungen über einen groß angelegten Vertrieb der Mi-Smartphones in Europa und Nordamerika abermals schmälert, um einen Blick auf die letzten drei Jahre von „China’s iPhone killer“ zu werfen. 10 Jahre nach dem

Phil Schiller sprach mit Steven Levy zum runden iPhone-Geburtstag. Schiller hopes that 50 years people will look back at this point and say, “Wow, they didn’t realize how much was to come — in fact, others missed it because they were busy running around looking for other things. Everyone has their opinions at this point, but it