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Montag
In this footage from abroad, a man on a scooter is knocked over by a large runaway tire, which rolls off into the distance. The man eventually recovers and picks up his bike, the the tire isn’t done with him.
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Wiesn 2022
Münchner Kind Für Aussenstehende ist das alles wahrscheinlich nur schwer nachvollziehbar. Für München und Münchner ist die Wiesn nach 2 Jahre Corona-Pandemie bedingter Pause eine Erlösung. Das Oktoberfest fand zum allerersten Mal anlässlich der Hochzeit von Kronprinz Ludwig von Bayern und Prinzessin Therese am 12. Oktober 1810 statt. Das seit 1810 jährlich stattfindende Oktoberfest markiert traditionell das Ende des Sommers und wurde im Lauf der Jahre etwas nach vorne in den September geschoben, so dass heutzutage nur noch das letzte Wochenende im Oktober stattfindet.
In seiner 222-jährigen Geschichte ist das Fest 26 Mal angesagt worden. Darunter 2 Mal Aufgrund einer Cholera Epidemie, zuletzt 2020 und 2021 wegen der Covid-19 Pandemie, zum ersten Mal seit 1949.
Die 187. Wiesen findet von heute, dem 17. September. bis zum 3. Oktober 2022 statt. Und so heisst es nach 2 Jahren warten dieses Jahr endlich wieder „O’zapft is! Auf eine friedliche Wiesn“
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Meta Meetings
We know Facebook has big plans for the Metaverse. The company even rebranded as Meta to underline it’s ambition. On Labstalk, we almost spent the entire season discussing benefits and goals of the technology, alongside with all the other tech topics in the same space, like Web3, NFTs and DOAs.
Introducing Horizon Workrooms: Remote Collaboration Reimagined, https://about.fb.com Back to Meta (the company) and the Metaverse: among others, one of the foundational use-cases the company re-imagines – to make it attractive to the promising B2B market: virtual or remote meetings.
And if you ever get to see any of the promotional images: At first glance, these that really look like a meeting in a 3D Room can be a viable alternative. In the pandemic the corporate workforce first came from plenty of travel and got force-used to Zoom and Teams meetings, only to develop even worse meeting fatigue because in-person required travel. Now after almost three years of pandemic, the audience is eager for something new and the time seems right for a different format.
Alone: the hype doesn’t materialise.
Parmy Olson from Bloomberg reports that Accenture, among other companies that are reference customers to Facebook/Meta’s Occulus platform, bought plenty of gear, 60k devices, some as long as 2 years ago. To use these devices for new hire orientation. AstraZeneca, another major customer, wouldn’t even comment.
The virtual conference room needs to die. VR is better used for fun and building relationships.
Source: Meta’s VR Headset Quest Won’t Replace Zoom – BloombergA major reason for the lack of momentum I can confirm from own experiences is the bad reputation Facebook/Meta has for their perspectives on privacy and handling of sensitive data. The ‘surveillance capitalism’ approach the company takes with this new technology and economy bet becomes apparent in the pricing strategy for these Occulus devices. The Facebook/Meta (or ‘surveillance’)-free version of the device, that appears technically identical, is about 30% more expensive, according to sources in well informed circles.
Personally, I believe in the concept but can re-affirm these concerns and understand the restraints that come alongside the curiosity. While the investments that Meta makes in the technology help the hardware make necessary progress towards user-acceptance, other players need to step in and provide applications to help solve corporate acceptance.
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Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
Remember the great resignation? It’s a tradition!
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This isn‘t scary
This is entirely fine. It‘s a success story for Boston Dynamics. Probably. Most likely, there is nothing to see here. Move along.
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#WWDC 06.Jun 2022
On Monday Apple opened this years World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC for short.
Apple Logo 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.
