(Vimeo) Guter Talk. Zwei technische Aspekte stachen für mich heraus: Bevor iOS 10.3 mehrere Hundert Millionen iPhones und iPads aufs neue Dateisystem APFS umzog, testete Apple den Switch mit früheren Betriebssystemversionen – ohne ihn dabei komplett durchzuziehen. Erst iOS 10.3 war kein Testlauf und legte den Schalter verbindlich um. Bedenkt man die Anzahl der Geräteweiterlesen

Gadgets 360: With all the recent changes in the App Store, can developers expect to see upgrade pricing next? Phill Schiller: The reason we haven’t done it is that it’s much more complex than people know, and that’s okay, it’s our job to think about complex problems, but the App Store has reached so manyweiterlesen

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 itweiterlesen

Phil Schiller antwortete vor vier Jahren einmal auf die Idee für ein hauseigenes Apple Firmenmuseum: “I don’t think this is a good idea for Apple. We are focused on inventing the future, not celebrating the past. Others are better at collecting, curating, and displaying historical Items. It is not who we are or who weweiterlesen

As an academic researcher and a security professional, I have mixed feelings about Apple’s announcement. On the one hand, as a researcher I understand how exciting it is to see research technology actually deployed in the field. And Apple has a very big field. On the flipside, as security professionals it’s our job to be skepticalweiterlesen

(Vimeo) Fantastisches Interview. Ich bin gerade eben zum ersten Mal mit der Podcast-Episode #158 als Audioaufzeichnung durch.

I think that Apple saw how concerned people were about paid search ads when the Bloomberg story came out, and decided that rather than having the entire discussion post-keynote be about that, they would instead announce it formally, along with improved subscriptions and the already-happening “faster review”. Let the storm clear, and then move on.weiterlesen

Apple erlaubt zukünftig allen Apps aus allen Kategorien ihre fortlaufende Dienstleistung zu einem fortlaufenden Abopreis anzubieten. Bislang war dieses Abrechnungsmodell in der iOS-Welt nur den HBOs und NYTimes’ vorbehalten. (Fast) alle Details hält Apples Entwicklerportal bereit (und John Gruber schreibt den verständlichsten Artikel zu dieser überraschenden WWDC-Vorankündigung). You might argue that people don’t want toweiterlesen