Since I read Asimov’s robot stories over and over again as a teenager, I’m fascinated with human-robot interaction. Was Asimov right and do humans generally fear robots? Or will they be winning us over as easily as cute little Aibo does? Will we accept robots as caretakers, who might even be filling emotional voids? Lot’s [...]
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Let’s be nice to Siri
Posted in Opinion on October 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My United States of Technology
Posted in Opinion on April 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It has been 4.5 years since my wife and I decided to move from Germany into the United States. Talking to friends and peers here I often feel they overlook something I am very passionate about and feel might be worth blogging. This is also inspired by Mike Lee’s great post about the #appsterdam initiative. [...]
Why is it bad to have 59.7B in cash?
Posted in Opinion, tagged iDevBlogADay on January 18, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This post is about a topic that I feel is widely misunderstood. Yet it’s a crucial topic regarding the company we work with, we hold shares in and we depend on. The number just came out in today’s earning call and I bet it will be questioned with the seemingly strange notion that this should [...]
Merry Christmas to you. And EA.
Posted in Opinion, tagged Business & Marketing, iDevBlogADay, Opinion on December 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Ah. Christmas. The quiet time. The peaceful time. Even the partridges in the pear trees seem to forget about their suicide missions with the pigs. Problem is, I don’t feel peaceful at all. Because of EA! And no, not because they lowered their price and occupy all major chart positions. Also not because Apple collaborates with them. [...]
Dinosaurs don’t farm
Posted in Opinion, tagged Business & Marketing, iDevBlogADay, Opinion on December 7, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It is 1997. I’m a student of Computer Science and jobbing at the CeBit tradeshow in cold and rainy Hannover, Germany, helping a big distributor of computer hardware and photographic equipment to showcase the first “semi-professional” digital camera. A Kodak DC 120 with 1.3 Megapixel resolution. “Mega” back was new and excitingly big. On paper. [...]
Did the Dinosaurs know what just hit them?
Posted in Opinion, tagged Business & Marketing, iDevBlogADay, Opinion on September 7, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It’s end of summer, 2010. The app store phenomenon is pretty much two years old. And we are entering that strange after-hype phase that seems to be typical for everything that was milked to death by the large media outlets. Dust settles. People are looking up and the world still rotates, Starbucks still sells coffee [...]
1,000,000 iPads in 28 days
Posted in Opinion, tagged iOS on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is this a good number? Half the time it took the first iPhone to get there? Here is a thought that I didn’t see thrown into the debate very often: Times have changed. There are two things very different compared to the first iPhone release: 1. Apple has between 50k-150k developers in a strong grip. [...]
Are 40 Appstores too much?
Posted in Opinion, tagged Android, iOS, Opinion on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, there was big news of twelve major operators wanting to create a kind of Super Appstore, to counter Apple’s successful approach. Overall there was word that we will end up with 40 major appstores in 2010. Now that’s a big number, but looking at the fragmentation of the [...]
We can’t really go back
Posted in Opinion, tagged Opinion on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Justine Pratt from Creative Algorithms wrote a brilliant piece on the history of mobile app distribution. She is making some excellent points on why despite all the problems, the Apple App Store still beats any other distribution system we have seen so far. Although I saw the irony in Justine’s title (and I double-checked with [...]
Crouching iDragon – Why the iPhone is no success in China
Posted in Opinion, tagged iOS on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a very eye-opening discussion with a China based developer today. Asking if he is going to buy a 3GS as a testing device, he told me that he indeed visited a Unicom Shop to check for prices yesterday. With a sobering result. “Official” iPhones are sold without Wifi in China and at a price that is [...]
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