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April 10, 2013#

Start From Scratch

2013-04-10 12.04.16Yesterday I received a replacement iPhone 5 due to battery failure. Instead of restoring my old backup, I started from scratch.

As you can see, there’s really not much I need. Apart from the obvious ones, I got Dropbox mainly for syncing photographs, a banking app and car2go to book electrified smarts.

On the second page, there’s only Newsstand with Marco Arments’ ‘The Magazine’ and a folder containing the remaining Apple apps. Very calm.

Wallpaper by Timothy J. Reynolds. I use a different one from him on each of my Apple devices.

January 23, 2013#

“The stupidest thing ever written about the MacBook Air”

I don’t think MG Siegler likes this. Joking apart, ridiculous post.

January 16, 2013#

Dependence on Amazon, Facebook and Google

My Amazon account is my entry to the cloud, my saved files on S3, virtual machines I fire up. My Facebook account is bound to 30 apps I developed (many of them are active and running) and my key to several other sites/services, Spotify for example. And finally my Google account, which is even more essential. My main mail account lives there, Analytics, AdWords, et cetera.

I think I (and you) should be nice and thankful to them. If one of them would cancel my account, I’d be totally fucked.

November 17, 2012#

FAZ: Google zahlt 22 Millionen für Datenschutz-Verstoß

Google kann die Kontroverse um das Umgehen der Datenschutz-Einstellungen bei Apples Safari-Browser wohl mit der Zahlung von 22,5 Millionen Dollar (17,7 Mio Euro) beenden. Die zuständige US-Richterin kündigte an, dass sie die Einigung des Internet-Konzerns mit der amerikanischen Handelskommission FTC billigen wolle. Die Summe erscheine ihr angemessen, sagte Richterin Susan Illston bei einer Anhörung in San Francisco am Freitag, wie die Finanznachrichtenagentur Bloomberg berichtete.

Das ist insofern interessant, da Safari eine extrem strikte Privacy-Basiseinstellung hat. Mich hat das Thema vor einiger Zeit länger beschäftigt, als ich bei der Entwicklung von Apps für Facebook Probleme hatte, Cookies in Safari setzen zu lassen.

November 13, 2012#

“Goodbye Android”

Chad Stovern:

However I’m ready to give up a little freedom to move on to a device that I don’t have to hack for it to do what I want and instead spend that time capturing moments with my friends and family with an iPhone camera, without fail, (almost) every time.

This is one of the main reasons why I use Apple products nowadays.

October 18, 2012#

Again, a new MacBook Air by Samsung

Google has just announced a new Chromebook made by Samsung. It looks like this:

Samsung has a long tradition in ripping off Apple products. But even after getting sued and convicted they keep on copying. For example, have a look at the keyboard, especially at the up and down arrows. They’re exactly the same as on the MacBook Air! This is just ridiculous.

October 11, 2012#

The Magazine

The Magazine is for people who love technology, especially the internet, mobile, truly great personal computers, and related fields influenced by technology such as photography, publishing, music, and even coffee.

Finally, the Newsstand no longer needs to be put on the last homescreen. The Magazine is a really interesting project by Marco Arment.

August 27, 2012#

FaceTime über das Mobilfunknetz

Mit iOS 6, das in den kommenden Wochen relativ zeitgleich mit dem neuen iPhone erscheinen wird, ließe Apple den User auch über das Mobilfunknetz über FaceTime telefonieren. Der Konjunktiv muss sein, da die Mobilfunkbetreiber das zu verhindern wissen.

Alle Provider haben als gemeinsames Ziel haben, maximal Geld zu machen. Seit iMessage und WhatsApp wird praktisch nichts mehr über die SMS verdient, durch Skype und ab iOS 6 FaceTime über das Mobilnetz auch nichts mehr durch die Telefonie. Deshalb wird FaceTime über das Mobilfunknetz auch nur in den teuersten Tarifen funktionieren. Das ist traurig, aber auch absolut zu erwarten gewesen. Anstatt selbst kreativ zu sein und ein eigenes Produkt (z.B. in Form einer App) zu entwickeln, unterbindet man lieber weitgehend das neue Feature von iOS 6.

Ich prophezeie schon seit ein paar Jahren, dass die Mobilfunkanbieter früher oder später einzig und allein als ISP dienen werden. Also wie der Internetanschluss zuhause, nur eben für unterwegs. Das ist die Zukunft, daran wird niemand etwas ändern können. Die Telekom, Vodafone oder O2 haben die Chance gehabt, mitzuspielen, haben den Trend aber verschlafen. E-Plus habe ich bewusst nicht genannt, da diese sich nach wie vor auf eine gute Sprachqualität fokussieren und ein sehr, sehr, sehr langsames Datennetz haben und ziemlich sicher bald vom Markt verschwinden werden – zusammen mit den klassischen Mobiltelefonen.

August 7, 2012#

iOS 6

It’s easy to be disappointed by the upcoming iOS version. There’s no massive new feature like the notification center which has been introduced in iOS 5. Yes, there may be a new Maps app, but it may well be that in the early stages it’ll be inferior to the current Maps application with map material by Google. Still, I think it’ll easily be the best iOS version.

I think iOS 6 will pretty much be the Mountain Lion of iOS. A refinement of something which is already good. There are useful new features like the “Do not disturb” function or the ability to share photo streams publicly. Apple is on the right course. Why desperately try to make something new when you have something solid, pretty and established.

Think about it this way: what are you missing? I for myself am totally satisfied with iOS and already love using iOS 6 on my test devices.

July 29, 2012#

Messages.app

iMessage was a cool idea, and it helped to kill SMS. But the realization and implementation of the new Messages app in Mountain Lion is incredibly bad.

Let me give you an example: you can’t use your phone number on any device except your iPhone. This is bad. Much worse though, if you use one email address on all your iDevices, it syncs embarrassingly awkward. You receive a message on your iPhone, because you’re chatting with someone on your iPhone, and 10 minutes later, your iPad begins to receive those old messages and it does this with notifications and sounds. What the hell? Oh and if you now use Messages in Mountain Lion, it syncs minutes to catch up those old messages and it only does it when it’s fired up.

This is tragic. Not only because Apple wasn’t able to fix this since releasing Messages as a beta when they announced Mountain Lion, but because shipping this piece of really bad software in a major OS X release.

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