And that’s part of the reason why Apple’s “me too”s end up feeling like “me-first”s. In the age of digital, execution is staggeringly important, and there isn’t a single company in existence that can pull off polish and simplicity like Apple. While other companies struggle just to get all of their devices and services talking

Music streaming market leader Spotify has decided that it wants to know a lot more about you. It wants to be able to access the sensor information on your phone so it can determine whether you’re walking, running or standing still. It wants to know your GPS coordinates, grab photos from your phone and look

„The belief was that we were always just one weird feature away from the thing taking off,“ says the same employee. Throughout the next couple years, Google improved its video hangout service and added smart, algorithmic photo-editing and search features, the latter of which earned plenty of praise, but did little to improve the overall

Watch und Wasser? Craig Hockenberry hält den Status-quo für die erste Generation der Uhr beim Schwimmen fest, wovon Apple explizit abrät („Die Apple Watch ist wasserabweisend, aber nicht wasserdicht.“) This report will explore how well the watch works when it’s exposed to water. I’ll also make some recommendations for Apple to improve the usability of its

Nick Heer blickt – in gespannter Vorfreude auf iOS 9, zurück auf iOS 8. Was funktioniert(e)? Was holpert (noch)? Und was fuhr komplett gegen die Wand? Ein Rückblick, fast interessanter als das ständige Gerüchteraten. Apple’s mobile operating system has matured into an incredibly robust platform. They’ve spent a lot of time over the past two

Nur das kein Missverständnis entsteht: Google Photos ist genau wie Gmail ein kostenloser werbefinanzierter Dienst. Noch nicht heute, aber ganz bestimmt morgen. Is that information in photos siloed, or is that going to be available to enhance my Google experience in other products? The information gleaned from analyzing these photos does not travel outside of

This isn’t just another electronic device. This isn’t fashion. This isn’t function. Apple has captured something deeply human about this. Apple is delivering on the vision I wrote about earlier, of deeply human computing, in a way only Apple could. And suddenly my Apple Watch was transformed from not just another gadget and place to get

Mit Version 4.0 der Tumblr-App (kostenlos; universal; App-Store-Link) veröffentlicht ihr endlich YouTube- und Vimeo-Videos von unterwegs. Das war via iPhone bislang eine Herausforderung – um es vorsichtig auszudrücken. Außerdem lässt sich direkt aus der App heraus ein komplett neues Blog starten. Viel schneller schreibt man unter persönlicher URL kaum ins Internet. Ich weiß nicht genau