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  • #WWDC 06.Jun 2022

    #WWDC 06.Jun 2022

    On Monday Apple opened this years World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC for short.

    Apple Logo
    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.

  • This is magical

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    Never gonna let you down
    https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1517590621447413760

    via jwz.org

  • Aushangpflichtige Gesetze

    Aushangpflichtige Gesetze

    Wusste ich nicht. Bisher.

  • Line goes up

    Line goes up: Let’s talk about the Ape in the room: Web3, Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are the hot shit. You absolutely heard about all of this since last year. At least.

    The Problem with NFTs
    The Problem with NFTs (and also Crypto and Web3)

    You probably heard all kinds of things about Web3 and supporting technologies, including the Metaverse. And while most of the headlines you’ll typically see revolve around ridiculous numbers the market generates, criticism in the development rises. Technically, most of the technology is sound. However, consequences show in economy and society.

    The dependencies are complex and wrapped in complicated language, mixed up with overly difficult expressions for technology.

    To understand the market for digital currencies and non-fungible token, Dan Olson of Folding Ideas explains different concepts in the video “Line goes up”. More than 2 hours long.

    00:00:00 Preface 00:01:12 0. In 2008 The Economy Collapsed 00:07:09 1. Bitcoin 00:18:18 2. Ethereum 00:24:34 3. The Machine 00:39:07 4. NFTs Exist To Get You To Buy Crypto 00:57:54 5. The Unbearable Cringe Of Crypto 01:11:46 6. A Self-Organizing High Control Group 01:16:57 7. Crypto Reality 01:25:36 8. There Is No Privacy On The Chain 01:32:52 9. If This “Looks Like Scam” Then Every NFT Room I’m In Looks Like Scam LOL 01:38:29 10. Play To Earn Exists To Get You To Buy Crypto 01:46:39 11. We’re All Gonna Make It And By “We” I Mean “Us” Not You 01:56:08 12. DAOs Exist To Get You To Buy Crypto 02:13:21 13. I Know It’s Rigged, But It’s The Only Game In Town

  • L’OREALF

    Warum ist das nicht schon seit 30 Jahren ein Meme?

    https://twitter.com/gustaveschiller/status/1487508955119165440
  • Hollywood starts doing AB-Tests

    Hollywood is doing A/B Testing now, with two editions of “The Batman”. Warner Brothers is Testing two versions of film, in one of which another big DC Character has an appearance:

    One of these cuts apparently has a high-profile actor appearing.

    Source: The Batman: WB Testing Two Versions of Film, One With Big DC Character

  • 2021, in a nutshell

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    When life gives you lemons

    My year 2021, in a nutshell. Thank you Will Santino.