NordPost stellt hier in Finnland neue Paketstationen auf – komplett ohne Display und ohne Nummernpad. Steht man davor, öffnet man die dazugehörige App auf seinem Telefon, nickt die Bluetooth-Verbindung ab und entnimmt die Sendung. Geht’s noch Smartphone-zentrischer? Even the AI boom, overhyped as it is, operates in the context of the smartphone — in the contextweiterlesen

Den Paradigmenwechsel vom Desktop zu iOS und Android hätte FaceBook fast verschlafen. Joe Hewitt startete als Einzelperson die erste native Facebook-App. “I didn’t really have to ask anyone permission because it was kind of the Wild West,” he says. He doesn’t even recall running it by Zuckerberg. “He probably saw it before we went live.weiterlesen

The first time I ever saw someone outside a lab carrying an iPod was Steve, right after the announcement. He was walking, iPod in hand, be-bopping across the quad. He had the hugest smile on his face. Steven Levy | Wired.com Speichert diesen Artikel in eurem Instapaper-Konto. Stopft euch AirPods in die Ohren. Startet nochweiterlesen

After a few days with the iPhone X, I can begin to make out its themes. It’s a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where it’s just there —a phone that’s “all screen,” one that turns on simply by seeing you, one that removes the mechanics of buttons andweiterlesen

Der hervorragende Artikel von Steven Levy über Apples Partnerschaft mit Hörimplantat-Hersteller Cochlear lässt sich aus zwei (möglicherweise gar nicht so verschiedenen) Perspektiven lesen: Einerseits unterstreicht der Beitrag Apples fortlaufende Arbeit an Accessibility-Features (von denen ich täglich die VoiceOver-Sprachausgabe nutze um mir Artikel auf Webseiten vorlesen zu lassen). For now, the implant and Apple’s new technologyweiterlesen

Steven Levy über Steve Jobs „letzte Produktveröffentlichung“. It’s probably more accurate to say that Apple Park is the architectural avatar of the man who envisioned it, the same man who pushed employees to produce those signature products. In the absence of his rigor and clarity, he left behind a headquarters that embodies both his autobiographyweiterlesen

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

„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 overallweiterlesen