Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading. For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from

Musikstreaming ist inzwischen eine „commodity“, eine austauschbare Standardware, die man sich bei unterschiedlichen Anbietern in vergleichbarer Qualität klickt. Auch deshalb investiert Apple kräftig in Personal und exklusive Produktionen. Es ist inzwischen nicht mehr zu übersehen, welchen Druck sie aufbauen um Marktführer im bezahlten Musikstreaming-Geschäft zu werden. Neustes Beispiel ist die Konzert-Serie „House of Strombo“. Die

➝ Video Mitreißende 45 Minuten. Zane Lowe ist jemand, den man sich als Maskottchen für seinen Musik-Streaming-Dienst wünscht.

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