The Apple Watch represents the biggest product bet Apple has placed since the iPhone in 2007. Apple will never be the same kind of company once Apple Watch pricing is revealed on Monday. Management’s primary focus during Monday’s „Spring forward“ Apple Watch event will be showing how a premium mass-market technology brand can embrace luxury

Unlike Spotify and YouTube, Apple’s service won’t offer a free “tier” of music interspersed with ads — after an initial trial period, you’ll need to pay to play. Peter Kafka | re/code Tim Cooks wiederholte Stimmungsmache gegen Firmen, die Nutzerdaten an Werbenetzwerke verkaufen, nahm in letzter Zeit zu. Schon das lässt vermuten, dass Apple freies

Milen Dzhumerov stößt keine neue, aber eine wichtige Diskussion an: We have seen a large shift in the app economy over the past 7 years which has had a huge impact on indie software. In many ways, we have regressed to state which is simply unsustainable in the long term. If you only look at

Harry McCracken über LINE, den lediglich vier Jahre alten Messenger mit 560 Millionen Nutzern und einem jährlichen Umsatz von über 650 Millionen US-Dollar: Because of the Line stars’ vivid personalities, people bond with them in a way that they don’t with emoticons or emoji—or with stickers from other apps that cribbed the feature after it

It’s pure arrogance for Silicon Valley to imagine that it can make wearables cool by hiring a few fashion people, putting the product on a runway, or throwing money at „collaborations“ with brands. This is a new game they’re trying to play, one with different rules. The rollout of the Apple Watch would look much

“It’s awkward when you’re dealing with models,” Ive said. “Often you’re reacting, by definition, to newness, or difference.” The new has to be given time to annoy, or disappoint. A few years ago, Ive and his colleagues assessed each prototype size of the future iPhone 6 by carrying them around for days. “The first one

Im letzten Monat feierte ich meinen 35. Geburtstag. Kein besonderes Datum, trotzdem kratzte der Jahrestag allerlei überraschende Gedanken auf. Unter anderem habe ich darüber nachgedacht, wie viele dumme Kaufentscheidungen ich in meiner jungen Erwachsenenzeit gefällt habe. Dinge, die ich nicht brauche, Zeug, das ich nicht benutze und Kram, der sein Geld nicht wert war. Doch ich

For 2015, iOS 9, which is codenamed Stowe (after the ski resort in Vermont), is going to include a collection of under-the-hood improvements. Sources tell us that iOS 9 engineers are putting a “huge” focus on fixing bugs, maintaining stability, and boosting performance for the new operating system, rather than solely focusing on delivering major new feature additions.