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Foto: Apple Der bekannte Softwareentwickler Marco Arment schreibt: Apple has completely lost the functional high ground. “It just works” was never completely true, but I don’t think the list of qualifiers and asterisks has ever been longer. We now need to treat Apple’s OS and application releases with…

Apple’s software problems aren’t dark linen, Corinthian leather or torn paper. In fact, Apple’s software problems aren’t much about aesthetics at all…they are mostly about experience. To paraphrase Ive’s former boss, Apple’s software problems aren’t about how they look, but how they work. Counternotions

Ladies and Gentlemen, please update your Apple TV

What’s skeuomorphism? If you’ve ever used an Apple product, you’ve experienced digital skeuomorphic design: calendars with faux leather-stitching, bookshelves with wood veneers, fake glass and paper and brushed chrome. Skeuomorphism is a catch-all term for when objects retain ornamental elements of past, derivative iterations--elements that are no longer…

Seit gestern kann man Programme für Apple-Rechner nun also auch direkt bei Apple kaufen -- über den neuen App Store, der als Teil des Snow-Leopard-Updates auf Version 10.6.6 als eigenständiges Programm (und dankenswerterweise nicht auch noch als weitere Rubrik in iTunes) installiert wird. Das "revolutionäre" Konzept des App…