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When you release sub-par products, you look sub-par yourself. Customers don’t care what platform it’s on, and don’t care what politics are going on behind the scenes at the company. If you release shit, you look like shit. It’s much better to release nothing at all. - Tobias W.

1. ihr seid uns scheissegal. auf euch können wir keine rücksicht nehmen, wir müssen nun an das grosse ganze denken. und das grosse ganze ist unser tolles google+. das funktioniert zwar noch nicht so super, ist noch immer leicht behindert (kein RSS, keine saubere, einfache möglichkeit inhalte auf fremde oder google-eigene plattformen zu transferieren (API), kaum filtermöglichkeiten ausser „circles“), aber na und? fresst oder geht sterben (exportiert euren scheiss doch einfach). - Tobias W.

If Steve was excited about Apple’s potential entrance into the TV market, he probably intended to revolutionize it, not just make a nicer version of everyone else’s TV set. - Tobias W.

http://www.marco.org/2011... - Tobias W.

Do you know who is already capitalizing on this problem and is hugely successful? Tumblr. Most people use Tumblr by sticking to a specific area of interest, and the social network makes it easy to follow others sharing your interests. When 850 million Facebook users, 50 million Google Plus users, why are there almost 30 million Tumble blogs out there with over 10 billion posts? I suspect it is because neither Facebook, nor Google Plus are an interest-based social network like Tumblr. The future war of the social web hinges on who better creates the most relevant experience for users. - Tobias W.

He called Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief, his "spiritual partner" at Apple. He told Isaacson that Ive had "more operation power" at Apple than anyone besides Jobs himself -- that there's no one at the company who can tell Ive what to do. That, says Jobs, is "the way I set it up." - Tobias W.

As a result of these changes, we also think it's important to clean things up a bit. Many of Reader's social features will soon be available via Google+, so in a week's time we'll be retiring things like friending, following and shared link blogs inside of Reader. - Tobias W.

oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man. oh man, oh man, ooooh man. - Tobias W.

"Detailliert waren dies 98 Prozent der 18- bis 24-Jährigen, jeweils 97 Prozent der 25- bis 29-Jährigen sowie der 30- bis 39-Jährigen und 90 Prozent der 40- bis 49-Jährigen. Bei den 50- bis 59-Jährigen lag der Anteil bei 80 Prozent, bei den über 60-Jährigen nur bei 40 Prozent." - Tobias W.

"In den nächsten Jahren wird es in allen ICE und auf allen Kernstrecken WLAN geben. Auch bei den Regionalzügen gibt es dafür Überlegungen. Hier wurde aber noch keine Entscheidung getroffen" - Tobias W.

"Perhaps the biggest news here is that we’ve determined that there is no technical reason for Apple not to allow Siri to run on the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 hardware can support the Siri artificial intelligence system, as the A4 processor is said to be powerful enough." - Tobias W.

irgendwie habe ich das nicht. u_u - Tobias W.

In his WWDC keynote in June, Steve Jobs said: “You know, if the hardware is the brain and the sinew of our products, the software in them is their soul”. In Apple’s vision, a modern software — the “soul” of a device — is able to evolve and fit to the circumstances and change its behavior accordingly to new user requests, the app market, and third-party developers. The flexibility of iOS — and the reason Apple doesn’t care about legacy software as much as other companies do — can be easily spotted looking back at the original iPhone, or the first version of the App Store from 2008. iPhone OS was never “done”. The App Store itself was never 100% complete — the Store is just a showcase for an ever-changing landscape of mobile applications built on top of new technologies offered to developers. Yet sometimes those developers come up with new solutions to existing problems and better ways to improve the functionalities Apple gave them out of the box. - Tobias W.

Jobs relished the stage, I think, because it was the place where he could share his delight in the new. I always believed Steve Jobs was truly in love with his own products. When he unveiled the iPad, Jobs was smiling from ear to ear. Granted, he had some really good stuff to show off. To this day, no other tablet has surpassed (or even come close) to the iPad — or its market share. Steve Jobs taught an entire industry that product experience didn’t begin or end with the hardware or application. It started on stage, continued in the store, and was ultimately realized when an Apple customer opened the product packaging. Unboxing stories were invented because of Apple, and thus because of Jobs. Obviously, not every Apple idea sprung fully formed from his mind. But like any good leader, he surrounded himself with exceptional professionals who helped create the world we know know as the Apple ecosystem. - Tobias W.

"Zwei Teilnehmerinnen der RTL-Sendung "Die Super Nanny" berichten über ihre Eindrücke von den (2008 ausgestrahlten) Aufnahmen." - Tobias W.

“We’re offering premium products, and we’re doing it at non-premium prices.” - Tobias W.

"Und an das Prinzip gewöhnt man sich sehr schnell. Man ärgert sich, dass es das gleiche hierzulande noch nicht für andere Medien gibt: Serien, Filme, Ebooks. Wer Spaß dran hat, vielleicht auch für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. Das dürfte nur noch eine Frage der Zeit sein. Und ob ich jetzt mal in Udo Lindenbergs Unplugged-Album reinhören sollte? Ist gar nicht mein Geschmack, aber man kann ihm ja mal eine Chance geben. Kostet ja nichts." - Tobias W.

"Spotifys deutscher Konkurrent simfy hat uns auf Anfrage übrigens bestätigt, dass eine überarbeitete Facebook-App auf Open Graph-Basis in Planung ist." Frage mich, ob das nicht zu viel wird, wenn JEDER gehörte Titel im Ticker vorbeirauscht. - Tobias W.

"As of May, Americans spent more time with Facebook than with the next four largest Web brands combined, according to Nielsen. Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, described Facebook as “sort of a walled garden” that, for better or worse, can increasingly filter every other activity on the Internet." - Tobias W.

www.bild.de/spon - Tobias W.

ohne leiste wär's noch besser. - Tobias W.

He’s right. But then, so is the urge of governments and other authorities to smother or restrict speech — purely for peace-keeping purposes, of course, and in the interests of public safety. He and Louise Mensch may be convinced that they know where to draw the line, but history has shown us it’s all too easy to blur that line, and difficult to stop that process once it begins. - Tobias W.

wtf? - Tobias W.

unglaublich hässlich. - Tobias W.

nette Spielerei. - Tobias W.

somit hat google ein bestens in den eigenen browser integriertes network. killer. - Tobias W.

ja. - Tobias W.

google haut ordentlich rein. - Tobias W.

Unfortunately, Pulp is unable to sync with Google Reader at present. According to Acrylic Software’s FAQ, this is due to both Google Reader’s lack of public API and Pulp’s own incompatible data model. For these reasons, it seems support is unlikely to be added in the near future. This is but a small gripe for me, but it could potentially be a deal breaker for those users who are tied to the service. .___. - Tobias W.

Mit der Filmförderung ist es wie in einer Hassliebe – ohne geht’s nicht, mit aber auch nicht. Der Standortwettbewerb der Filmförderer hat Auswirkungen auf das künstlerische Ergebnis, klagen Filme­macher. Tourismuswerbung ist nicht das Kerngeschäft von Filmerzählern. Wenn Ökonomie wichtiger wird als die Kunst, wenn die erhoffte Profilierung der eigenen Region die künstlerische Vision überlagert, dann wird ein Film vielleicht „hamburgischer“, aber nicht „besser“. - Tobias W.