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Mobility is an increasingly complex matter to society.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.
— Cycling Professor
It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”
~E.F. Schumacher pic.twitter.com/o5kHk5DLpz (@fietsprofessor) September 24, 2022
Supermarktkette Kaufland hat in einer Pressemitteilung bekanntgegeben, über die Point-of-Interest-Suche in Auto-Navigationssystemen Werbehinweise einblenden zu wollen. Das Vorhaben wird zusammen mit SAP.iO Alumni 4.Screen realisiert.
Source: Pressemitteilung | Kaufland
A “Dream Job”, writes Reuters. The report has it the man actually charges for doing nothing, making it a real job.
Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing.
From the article
The service comes at ￥10.000, about 70€, per hour and gives the client the company, or existence of Shoji. While at first glance this is a superfluid job, it wouldn’t fit any of David Graebers categories for bullshit jobs. Being booked for being around and do nothing wouldn’t be a „Flunkie“, a „Goons“, a „Duct Taper“, a „Box Tickers“ or a „Taskmasters“.
For many, a dream job has to come with purpose. Doing nothing may be different from having nothing to do. Being paid for what you want to do may indeed be a form of a dreamjob. For some.
Source: Dream job: the Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing | Reuters
The 9-Euro Ticket was considered experimental in first place. And still deemed to become a huge success in Germany. At the price-point, the ticket was unbeatable and created lots of debates about the future of mobility in the country. First research showed accessible public transport can lay grounds for a modal shift in the population. After many controversies, even the liberal forces in the government acknowledged the need for affordable transportation.
The Technical University of Munich now conducted a survey. Results conclude that just about 50 Euro would be affordable / acceptable for the majority of possible audience.
The experimental “9 Euro Ticket” general transit pass has run its course and the calls for a successor pass are growing. A study conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) accompanied more than 2000 people during the 9 Euro Ticket trial period, interviewing them on a regular basis. In addition to questions on mobility behavior, information on the price which the participants were willing to pay for a follow-up pass also played an important role.
Technical University of Munich (TUM) conducted a mobility study.
Being from the Metropolregion myself, this comes not at a surprise. The city ticket here alone comes in at about 70€ a month, and to reach TUM alone, the monthly ticket will set you back by roughly 100€. At 50€, the ticket therefore still will be a bargain for anybody. Whether it creates the same effects the 9€ ticket created is questionable. For those that have a car, it’s likely still to complex.
After all, the debate continues and how mobility needs more diversified products. At the same time, simplification to many is the key to solve the problem.
Source: A little over 50 euros acceptable for 9 Euro Ticket successor – TUM
Jay Leno visited SpaceX to interview Elon Musk. The quick trailer on Jay Lenos Twitter channel shows them debating Raptor Engines, used in SpaceX’s rockets. In the converation, Elon Musk takes a hot take on patents. He claims the company ain’t using the mechanism, that won’t help progressing anywhere. His take is patents are meant to keep others from progressing along. My bubble will appreciate.
On Monday Apple opened this years World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC for short.
The entire keynote felt encroaching to me, but I failed to grab the feeling while the show was on. Only after I got through notes it became clear to me how many business areas Apple is attacking on their own territory.
“Buy Now Pay Later” is entering the increasingly prominent fintech market that make companies like Klarna big: Apple introduces Apple Pay Later, that will allow consumers to split payments into 4 installments over the course of 6 weeks. The consumer payment feature comes at not investment into UI or development, it will work out of the box.
Collaboration has been a huge topic throughout the keynote. Apple Freeform was announced, just like improved capabilities for collaboration in Keynote, Pages and Numbers, all integrated through iMessages. While the eyecatching moment with Freeform obviously created associations with popular tools like Miro and Mural. Digital whiteboard software integrated with all other Apple services, on the device, has huge potential to grab some already distributed marked. An underlying strategy for all these announcements may very well be the much larger enterprise market, that traditionally is dominated by Microsoft, that even Google has a hard time to get a hold of.
Apple Passkeys, apparently keychain thought through, will allow users to get rid of passwords and end passwords for authentication. Signing in to websites will be as easy as using Touch- or FaceID, not requiring a password. A promisse that products like LastPass or 1Password gave for the past years.
Probably the biggest announcement was CarPlay. Throughout the Keynote it didn’t get the attention that it probably should have got. CarPlay has huge potential to marginalize large industries. After its first of the concept announcement in 2014 it quickly became clear even premium cars had potential to become minor partners in the relationship. A trend that car manufacturers are trying to mitigate and create software organizations ever since. With no breakthrough success so far. Only recently Germany’s Volkswagen daughter Cariad has been in the news for failing to deliver a solid product and executing on their goals. What Apple presents through out their WWDC keynote is only a concept at the time. Still, there no little doubt on Apple’s ability to execute on this concept and with that creating an even bigger competitive advantage. All of this without mentioning that rumors for an Apple car persist.
Apple is executing on a strategy to controlling digital life end to end, and it’s taking no prisoners along its path.
Customer Experience will continue to drive Apples success.
Elon musk announced – on Twitter – the deal is put on hold. The entire story becomes an endless drama, keeping the company in the news and investors on distance. The entire acquisition plan didn’t make economic sense for the Tesla and SpaceX founder in first place, now the hold is a disaster for the Twitter and its previous owners.
We all remember how Facebook acquired Instagram for a whole billion of Dollars. An incredible amount for a Internet Service at the time it happened. Of course the event was debated controversial. Still, it is one of the biggest success stories of Big Tech.
Instagram is a photo service in a sea of other photo services. Photography has been around on the web in meaningful ways for a long time. Flickr lost out to Facebook in the community stakes, and Instagram is doing great in whatever-the-fuck market it’s in (the share-to-my-twitter-followers market?), but this is not Google acquiring YouTube.
Hacker News Summary of the Facebook acquisition of Instagram.
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Well, here we are. Ten years later, in 2022. That didn’t age well.
Only yesterday we ran a show with our Head of Experience Technology to discuss how knowledge work did and will evolve. Of course, most people in this industry only need to have their notebook with them, eventually a good WiFi Connection. Some of the procedures are difficult to comprehend for other industries, in particular those that require physical presence. Shooting a movie, in my imagination, is one of those places that makes it necessary for people to gather, in particular in front of a camera.
Still, the future of work is coming to Hollywood, too, which I take as a great symbol.
A film shoot across multiple studios, without any green screens? Thanks to LED walls, decentralized production is now a real possibility.
via: Virtual production is decentralizing Hollywood – Protocol
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