Die (Technik-)Presse belächelte Apples Entscheidung das iPad 2 weiter zu verkaufen – zurecht. Aus individueller Verbraucherperspektive macht das verschobene Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis, teuer und technisch rückständig, keinen Sinn. Elia Freedman erläutert warum es im öffentlichen Bildungsbereich anders aussieht. Seine Argumentation finde ich sehr nachvollziehbar. While decisions based around timing and equity generally don’t play out in the…

Casey Newton hat die komplette Geschichte; Nick Heer bringt sie auf den Punkt: It’s truly unfortunate that such a great product could not secure funding while yet another crummy social network can be valued at a billion dollars. These guys are some of the best engineers and they managed to produce a product that was…

by Blake Patterson (cc) There was less they could do to make sure the phone calls Jobs planned to make from the stage went through. Grignon [senior manager in charge of all the radios in the iPhone] and his team could only ensure a good signal, and then pray. They had AT&T, the iPhone’s wireless…

DirektBennett Apple won’t confirm it. But Bennett says she is Siri. Professionals who know her voice, have worked with her and represent her legally say she is Siri. And an audio-forensics expert with 30 years of experience has studied both voices and says he is “100%” certain the two are the same. Jessica Ravitz |…

Apple bestätigt gegenüber iPhoneBlog.de: iCloud-Accounts liefern E-Mails auch in Deutschland wieder per Push aus. Florian Mueller berichtete bereits am gestrigen Abend über die Reaktivierung nach 19 Patentstreit-Monaten mit Motorola/Google. Apple has finally been able to make the feature available again. I’m happy to share this piece of good news with end users, who were unfortunately…

The SMS 2.0 plan was a throwback to RIM’s move a decade earlier to form partnerships with mobile providers and share revenues. It was a chance to make BBM the dominant chat messaging service, and would have created a new story for the BlackBerry brand […]. But the plan deeply divided the company. BBM was…

Die 200 Millionen Updates auf iOS 7 waren am Montag eigentlich die beeindruckendere Apple-Zahl. Laut Chitika und Mixpanel befinden sich damit nach einer Woche über die Hälfte aller aktiven iPhones und iPads auf der neusten Betriebssystem-Version. Noch mehr Gründe benötigen App-Store-Entwickler nicht, um ihre Software komplett auf iOS 7 hochzustufen.

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