Aktuelles 11. Oktober 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• iPhone 4S pre-orders top 3M after one weekend, 25M on track this quarter "Apple announced this morning it registered pre-orders for more than 1 million iPhone 4S phones in 24 hours, well beyond its previous record of 600,000 phones. New estimates peg the initial weekend’s sales to be somewhere north of 3 million, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky. That means Apple could sell more than 25 million iPhones in its fourth operating quarter this year, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said."
• Warum Apple (vorerst) beim kleinen Bildschirm bleibt. "Beim iPhone 4 kann man das Gerät in einer Hand halten und mit dem Daumen beinahe alle Bereich des Bildschirms abdecken. Und genau das geht bei einem 4,21-Zoll Bildschirm eben nicht mehr."
• A Nobel Prize for the Ancien Régime "This years decision to give the prize to Sargent and Sims is particularly bizarre. It is like honouring the engineer who designed the Titanic after the ship sunk."
• Ah, „der CCC lügt“ scheint die neue Linie der Innenminister …
• So langsam kommen ja auch mal Details raus, in was …
• Das gedruckte Internet und die Zeitmaschine Das trifft es sehr gut: “Sometimes I think the students who choose to major in journalism came to us through a time machine from a place where people still read text that is printed on paper. What’s especially strange is that most of these students do not themselves read any text on paper — but they imagine that someone will give them a job where they will spend all their time writing text, text, text that will not interact with any other media.”
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