apple - Oliver Zachau - Personal Blog

Apple M1 Chip

So here it is, after the announcement earlier this year from Apple to shift away from Intel towards Apple Silicon. Three events in a single year, from upgrades to iPad, iWatch, new services, and now the new MacBooks and Mac Mini! While companies like Intel are struggling to keep pace,

bias

People don't want more choices. They want to be more comfortable with the choices they make.

Over the last ten years, I tried to convince customers that choice is what they are looking for—offering PC systems tailored to their needs, with configurations sometimes boosting several millions of combinations. But the reality is that most people have been sticking to the default configurations. They changed the

EPIC

Update on the EPIC vs Apple Dispute

While EPIC was able to get the attention of its Fortnite community and some free rider. The judge seems less impressed with the performance of EPIC in court so far. Here are the important parts: Judge Rogers questioned Epic on when, exactly Apple became a monopoly given that its App

apple

Apple Fitness+ Innovation

We got reminded yesterday how innovation can kill your business model overnight. With Fitness+ the business models of Peloton, VAHA, freeletics, and MIRROR are on the line. Peloton stock dropped from $88.43 immediately to $83.93 Fitness+ looks like such a better value for customers doing fitness. For those

search

Apple to launch a search engine?

Changes on iOS 14, a significant update to the Applebot support page and an increase in crawling. For years Google ways paying billions of dollars to Apple to stay the default search engine. But with UK authorities looking into the deal, and a more privacy aware customer group, this might

apple

Apple Silicon

The recent Apple move to switch away from Intel based CPUs was long before discussed, it was quite frankly just a matter of the right timing.

apple

The AR / VR segment isn't dead just yet

While Google fetches North to strengthen there investment in this segment, Facebook is after the acquisition of Oculus VR in 2014 on its path towards actual lightweight glasses: https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/06/holographic-optics-for-thin-and-lightweight-virtual-reality/ But Google and Facebook aren't the only companies in that race, Apple reportedly has