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Apple iPhone 4 press conference video online

Christian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:38:45 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave a presentation on the iPhone 4 antenna issue today, July 16th 2010. The Quicktime video stream is worth watching … and the Apple team really shows a great sense of humor: It all starts with the “iPhone Antenna Song” from Jonathan Mann. Steve Jobs had enough guts to start the presentation with this great little song and it’s chorus line “If you don’t like an iPhone 4 – don’t buy it! If you bought one and you don’t like it – bring it back!”.
So congrats to Jonathan for writing and performing it … and Steve for featuring it.

Press conference facts in short:

Smartphones have weakspots … so the iPhone 4 shares the problem with many other smartphones
AppleCare data shows that complains about the antenna are minimal (0,55%)
ATT return rates are 1/3 of the return rates of the iPhone 3GS
ATT call drop rate is a little bit higher compared with the iPhone 3GS (less than one additional call per hundred)

Conclusion from Apple:

Updated iOS 4.0.1 – Fixes bars and Exchange bug
Free iPhone case for every iPhone 4 customer … or a full refund for the bumper if you already bought one
… if you’re still not happy … you’ll get a full refund if you return your undamaged iPhone 4 within 30 days of purchase.

Video-on-demand of Steve Jobs Apple WWDC 2010 Keynote

Christian — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:56:56 +0000

Finally the video stream of Steve Jobs iPhone 4 & iOS 4 keynote at the WWDC 2010 is online now. So tune in to watch his performance.

QuickTime video-on-demand of the Apple iPad special event 2010 keynote

Christian — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:02:08 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs presents the iPad on January 27th 2010 (Picture: Apple)

Finally Apple officially published the video-on-demand of the Apple special event “Come and see our latest creation”. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27th 2010. You can watch it as a QuickTime video stream or as MPEG-4 … and it’s really worth it

Apple Event Keynote “Come and see our latest creation” – Live Coverage [Update]

Christian — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:25:43 +0000

This is the day: Apple will start their press event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. At 10:00 am PST or 07:00 pm MEZ.

Like the legendary Steve Jobs Keynotes in the past, it is quite a tradition that some journalists blog live from the event … so Apple fans all over the planet can take part on the press conference. Here are the most important liveblogs:

As soon as the videorecording of the event is online as a Quicktime videostream … there’ll be an update

iPhone OS 3.0 live updates on March 17 2009 10 am PST

Christian — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:28:33 +0000

Today, at March 17 2009 at 10 am PST the invitation only event starts at the Apple headquater in Cupertino. Here a list of blogs who report live from the event:

There is only one last thing … have fun … and let’s hope that our feature dreams will come true

Turbo dating comedy episode wins Mobile Shortfilm Festival MoFilm

Christian — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:49:17 +0000

Kevin Spacey awarded the turbo dating comedy episode “English as a Second Language” with the grand prize of the MOFILM-jury. Frank Chindamo produced the 3 Minute shortfilm directed by Jocelyn Stamat.
The british charmer Rupert is played by Greg Ellis, Alexa Havins plays the American Sarah and model Claudia Mason is the woman Genevieve with a lovely french accent from Paris.
Congratulations – the shortfilm really deserves it.
But one interesting question is open: How will they merchandise the shorts? I would immediately think about the short film section in a store of a fruit company in Cupertino: They sell shortfilms for $1.99. I think they are quite successful in merchendising music, mobile applications and also TV-series and movies But that would probably not taste good for the GSMA Mobile World Congress – one of the partners of the MoFilm festival: Finally the fruit company just ignored the congress and the fair even in the second year of the iPhone boom. and even though everyone talks about the iDanger.

MoFilm Mobile Short Film Festival publishes shortlist & Kevin Spacey will award the winner

Christian — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:13:53 +0000

The Berlinale in Berlin is over now – and some of the Hollywood celebrities are just moving on to GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: On Thursday, February 19th 2009, the winners of the MoFilm – Mobile Short Film Festivals will be awarded. Last year Robert Redford gave a keynote speech at the GSMA Mobile World Congress – this year the two-time Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey will bring a touch of Hollywood-glamor to Barcelona.
Registered users can watch the preliminary short list of contenders for MOFILM 2009 over the internet. In my eyes the turbo-date episodes are really worth taking a look at
So we can be curious about the lucky winners who will receive the MoFilm award from Kevin Spacey on stage on Thursday.

German iPhone developers celebrate Valentine’s app sale

Christian — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:33:31 +0000

Happy Valentine’s day!

Nearly 30 German iPhone developers joint their forces and reduced their app prices to the max to make you smile on Valentine’s day
Our iPhone app CompareMe is also available for $0.99. So check out AppsForSale.de maybe there’s a real bargain. Only on 14.02.2009!

Flash on the iPhone – why does it take so long?

Christian — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:55:15 +0000

The iPhone is on the market for more than one and a half years – and there is still no Flash support. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen gave some interesting insights within the Bloomberg interview at Davos – in short: “It’s a hard technical challenge”.
What is happening here? Why is it so hard for Adobe and Apple to include Flash into the iPhone and iPod touch? Is this only a technical challenge?

There are a lot of reasons why migrating Flash to the iPhone is not a walk in the park:

Challenge: Complete migration and optimization
Adobe is quite clever in marketing, when they say “over 800 million Flash enabled devices shipped” … because this does not mean that those 800 million “Flash enabled” cellphones can view websites with embedded Flash content. Those 800 million devices have a tiny version of a special mobile Flash player installed, which only can play special generated Flash Light apps. So, Adobe’s Flash Light is not a web browser plugin as we know it from the Mac or PC world – it is a mobile application environment, only. Apple probably is not interested to much in bringing Flash Light to the iPhone. Apple is indeed interested in offering complete Flash support for Safari on the iPhone. But this would result in a complete migration of the OS X Flash player to the iPhone OS and a hell of optimization: Flash on OS X (and on Windows also) is very resource consuming – and this is the last thing you want to experience on the iPhone: slow, battery consuming surfing on Flash enabled websites. The Adobe Flash Light team spent years on optimizing Flash Light to the specific mobile phone platforms – it will be even more work to finish the complete migration to the iPhone.

Challenge: Smooth integration of Flash content into the iPhone OS environment
Right now there is a clear difference between web and video content: If you embed a Quicktime video into a website the iPhone user can see a video play button on the website; if the user clicks on the video play button the video is played in a separate movie player view. How should a Flash container – displaying a video – react? What is the best user experience? Will it be possible to integrate Flash views within native iPhone apps? Plenty of questions … and plenty of work on the usability and user experience side.

Challenge: Competing application environments of Flash Light and the native iPhone OS SDK
There is a clear and straight business case for Adobe with their Flash Light product: Handset manufacturers or operators have to pay for every single installation on a handset. They pay Adobe to get access to a creative developer community of Flash (Light) developers with interesting and good looking apps for their mobile phones. Will Apple pay Adobe for getting Flash on the iPhone? I personally don’t think so! Apple does not have any problem to attract creative developers to their native iPhone OS SDK. Flash Light apps don’t make the iPhone more attractive – maybe it’s even the opposite. On the Flash side, Apple managed it to convince companies like Google / Youtube to encode their videos especially for mobile phones without the need of Flash. Apple just created this extremely successful native application ecosystem – with a strong and creative developer community on the one hand and a well suited storefront with the iTunes iPhone AppStore on the other hand.

This all makes clear, what Shantanu Narayen pointed out at the interview: “(…) the ball right now is in our court (…)”: Adobe has to do the job – it’s essential for their business to be present on the iPhone – and Apple will profit from well integrated Flash in the iPhone … but Apple won’t loose anything if there wouldn’t be any Flash support at all in the future.

Robert Redford and will.i.am at mobile backstage event

Christian — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:58:38 +0000

Thanks to parakeet at Youtube, all of you how did not get the chance of joining to the Mobile Backstage event at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, yesterday. So if you like to watch Robert Redford talking about mobile shorts and Sundance, or the writers strike in Hollywood. will.i.am – member of the Black Eyed Peas talked about mobile music videos and about his 48-hour project Yes-We-Can-Song inspired by Obama. And will.i.am shares his personal insights about the power of fans with (camera)mobilephones. Maybe the mobile industry is waking up from it’s conservative sleep At the Samsung Party it was clear again that they know how to party!