Apple - unaufhaltsamer Aufstieg - wie lange noch? (Seite 1752)

[auriga]

Hi Chris....über iOS 8....C. B. testet....Gruß.

Apples neues Betriebssystem – iOS 8
iOS 8 im Test: Welche Neuerungen bietet Apple?

>Christian Blum, 17.09.2014, 11:00 Uhr

Apple gibt iOS 8 für alle Geräte bis iPhone 4S frei. Doch wie schlägt sich das neue System? COMPUTER BILD macht den Test und zeigt frische Funktionen von iOS 8.

http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Handy-iOS-8-Test-…

[auriga]

OOOOPS...und ich vergaß das Video...!

[IngChris]

Upps - das hab´ ich ja ganz vergessen ....


Apple stellt iOS 8 zur Verfügung

Die zu erwartende Downlaodzeit von iOS 8 lag am Mittwochabend zwischen drei und vier Stunden. Grund dafür dürften die zahlreichen Anfragen von Millionen Nutzern sein, die in diesen Minuten zeitgleich auf die Apple-Server zugreifen, um das Update zu installieren
http://www.inside-handy.de/news/32780-ios-8-downloaden-apple…

[auriga]

Heute im Wallstreet Journal >>>> TECH

PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY
iPhone 6 Review: Apple's Cure for Android Envy
Two New Phones Solve Size Deficiency; Apple Pay Promises a Big Leap for Smartphones

The new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are Apple's largest phones ever. But what will that extra real estate do for you? Personal Technology Columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler takes you on a test drive.

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
Updated Sept. 17, 2014 11:44 a.m. ET....83 comments

There's a nagging feeling that afflicts many iPhone owners: a fear of missing out.

It hits me riding the train. Mixed among the iPhone herd are Android owners happily reading a novel or burning through work on screens upward of 6 inches. I only see five emails on my four-inch iPhone screen. Those guys get eight.

I used to laugh it off—who wants to hold a gangly phablet up to their ear? Gradually, though, many of us began using our phones more for apps than calls. Samsung anticipated these habits and made large Android phones that were better companions for always-connected people. The iPhone felt stuck in a bygone era called 2012.

Now Apple has dual cures for Android envy: a bigger iPhone, and a super mega jumbo iPhone.

After using both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus for a week, I can report that Apple has successfully addressed its size deficiency, and much more. The $199 (with contract) iPhone 6 packs a 4.7-inch screen, big enough to get down to business, into the most comfortable smartphone I've ever held. And while the iPhone 6 Plus feels too big for my taste, for $100 more its 5.5-inch screen offers an option for road warriors who don't want to carry a tablet.

While the iPhone 6's battery life proved mediocre with its screen at full brightness, it's still the best smartphone you can buy.

Cue the eyeball rolls from Android owners. Phones have become so core to our lives that buying into an operating system has become a bit like choosing a religion. Apple phones appeal to people who want someone smart to make choices for them; Android phones appeal to people who can't stand that. (This extends to our relationships: Dating service Plenty of Fish tells me male Apple owners are even 58% more likely to enter into a relationship with another Apple owner.)

There's no one right choice for everyone. So what makes the iPhone 6 the best? Performance, usability and camera refinements, coupled with a safe, powerful operating system that now lets the iPhone's big collection of apps do more.

Beyond that, the iPhone 6 promises a big leap forward in what a smartphone can be in our lives: a real digital wallet—eventually the one thing you grab when you leave the house. Apple's ability to make that idea a reality where others have floundered will be the ultimate answer to Android envy.



First, the iPhone 6 gets most of the basics right. Existing iPhone owners won't have to learn new software or buy new cables. The screen is a bit more readable in sunlight than its best-selling rival, the Samsung Galaxy S5. Apps are snappy; the iPhone 6's processor is up to 20% faster than last year's iPhone.

That 0.7-inch bump in screen size from the 5S to the 6 buys you a lot. You get an extra row of apps on the home screen and can see an extra email in your inbox. Long-form reading is easier: When using the Kindle app, setting fonts to roughly the same size, I got about 30 more words on each iPhone 6 screen than on an iPhone 5S. (That means a third less time turning virtual pages.) And anyone with poor vision will appreciate a new "zoomed" mode that's like reading glasses for your iPhone.

Apple can make the screens bigger, but it can't do anything about the size of our hands. So it made smart ergonomic design choices to empower our opposable thumbs. The iPhone 6 shaves off bulk (it's just a tad wider than the iPhone 5S) and smooths all the edges so most hands can still grip it tightly.

Meanwhile, even though the iPhone 6 Plus is a little too big for my hands, I like what Apple's designers have done to compensate.


TOBY BURDITT FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

To ease one-handed operation, the power button on both phones moved from the top to the right side, about where your thumb rests. Tapping the home button lightly twice brings everything from the top of the screen to the middle for easy access—a more elegant solution than the one-handed options Samsung offers.

I think most people won't go back to a smaller phone. But if you do, Apple will sell the iPhone 5S and 5C at a discount, at least for now.

The iPhone 6 is the new king of phone photos, thanks to some modest camera improvements, particularly for dark situations and squirmy subjects like pets.

The secret to its success isn't packing in more resolution—iPhone 6 shots are still just 8 megapixels. Rather, Apple has improved the quality of its lens and sensor, adding an autofocus technology you find in high-end cameras that lets you lock in your shot quickly before Fluffy scampers off.

The iPhone 6 Plus camera goes further, with optical image stabilization, which helped me take sharper nighttime shots. But overall, both phones produced more detailed, less noisy photos than their predecessor and the Samsung Galaxy S5.



Oh yes, both new phones also make calls. In fact, it offers a new technology—in the U.S. currently only available to T-Mobile customers—that lets you make regular calls via a Wi-Fi network if you're in a place with spotty network coverage. I wasn't able to test Wi-Fi calling, but will follow up on it soon.

The iPhone 6's biggest drawback is its battery. It isn't a deal-breaker—I was able to make it through the day on a single charge. But when I stress-tested the handsets by cranking up screen brightness to 100% and streaming video, the iPhone 6 battery died just before my iPhone 5S's did.

The iPhone 6 Plus, with its larger battery, lasted about 15% longer than its sibling. But Samsung's Galaxy S5 blew away the competition, lasting 40% to 50% longer than the iPhone 6. (Plus, you can also replace the Galaxy battery any time. Apple's are sealed inside.)

In tests with all the phones' brightness set to automatic, the new iPhones were more conservative in their power usage and managed to match or beat their predecessor and arch rival.

Still, I wish Apple had designed a slightly thicker phone to stave off the battery blues that afflict so many iPhone owners. Will I eventually have to put a chunky battery case around this lithe beauty?

Besides a better battery life, there are other things you can get on a Samsung Android phone like the Galaxy S5 or the recently announced Note 4: a stylus, a heart-rate sensor and the ability to operate it without touching the screen. These are bells and whistles that few people use.

The other Galaxy attribute I wish the iPhone 6 shared is waterproofing, though it's also one reason the Galaxy S5 is thicker than the Galaxy S4.



Apple's biggest advantage over Samsung is the simplicity and style of its software. The latest overhaul, iOS 8, also lays the foundation for new ways for apps to work with us, and with each other.

For those worried about security and privacy, the iPhone still offers the best protections for most of us. Apple took heat when celebrity iCloud accounts got hacked, but its app store has far less spyware and the iPhone's software is less open to hacker manipulation than Android's.

Apple's strength is choosing the technologies that really matter and taking them mainstream. The iPhone 6 sets up Apple to make good on the long-promised evolution of the smartphone into a wallet and a companion for a universe of personal devices and data, including the forthcoming Apple Watch. Apple added technologies, including one called near-field communication (NFC), that will let iPhone 6 owners make payments at over 220,000 U.S. stores starting in October. I was only able to test Apple Pay in a demo situation, but it was remarkably simple.

Apple has already signed up some of the biggest banks for Apple Pay, but to make the big idea work it will need a lot more merchants. And Apple will have to continue building up trust that it can keep our financial and personal data private.

Apple doesn't get a free pass on any of these promises. But its sleek new hardware sets it up to guide iPhone 6 owners into a new chapter. Instead of looking over at Android phones and wondering what I'm missing, the iPhone once again has my full attention.

—Write to Geoffrey A. Fowler at [e-mail] or on Twitter @geoffreyfowler.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/iphone-6-review-apples-cure-f…

[auriga]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.802.693 von niftybunny am 17.09.14 13:32:00

Zitat von niftybunny: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2gmdju/comprehensive_…

reviews are in

Starke Übersicht. So auch sehr interessanter Artikel im Wallstreet Journal...!

[IngChris]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.807.484 von IngChris am 17.09.14 21:08:02

Aber anscheinend (noch) kein grösseres iPad ....


The company plans to unveil the sixth generation of its iPad and the third edition of the iPad mini,....

The iPad is expected to have a 9.7 inch screen, while the new version of the iPad mini will have a 7.9 inch screen, Bloomberg earlier reported, citing people familiar with the matter
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/17/apple-launch-idUSL…

[IngChris]

Gerücht:

The company is planning to hold its next event on Oct. 21, where it will unveil two new iPads and announce the release of OS X Yosemite, the next version of its Mac operating system, according to sources familiar with the matter.


https://twitter.com/dailydot/status/512256332687503360

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/apple-event-october-21/

[Popeye82]

How "Apple +'New Tech' Will 'Transform' the Healthcare Industry" - E.com - Sep 16, 2014

- Patrick Cox -
www.equities.com/editors-desk/stocks/technology/how-apple-an…

"Tech sites are buzzing right now about the new Apple (AAPL) smartwatch and iPhone. Having been a part of or close to the tech industry for a long time, the excitement that builds over new products doesn’t normally move me much. This time, though, it’s a little different because of reports that the phone and watch will be integrated to support healthcare apps.

The technological convergence was never just about bringing entertainment to mobile devices. Finally, we’re seeing the convergence expand into areas that directly impact health. The timing is perfect.

The history of medicine is as old as the history of humankind. Even prior to the rise of Egyptian and Indian civilizations, humans were treating medical ailments with varying success. If you haven’t looked at the research regarding Ötzi the Iceman, I recommend it. In 1991, the mummified and frozen body of a man who died approximately 5,300 years ago was found in the mountainous border between Austria and Italy.

The objects on his body have inspired extensive research and surprise, but several things stand out to me. One is that his weapons and clothing, especially his shoes, required skills and materials that couldn’t have been available to every individual at the time. They were, therefore, constructed by skilled specialists and traded across considerable distances.

Clearly, commerce and trade were not only common among prehistoric humans, the practice of voluntary trade clearly gave practitioners enormous advantages in the struggle to survive and raise their families. Trading is not something outside of human nature, as antibusiness forces want us to believe. It is ingrained in our DNA.

The most interesting item found on Ötzi, in my opinion, was a fungus, the Piptoporus betulinus mushroom that grows on birch trees. Like the penicillin fungus, it has antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties and was probably traded and used by ancient Europeans to treat stomach ulcers and parasites, which Ötzi suffered from. In the Americas, native populations were also developing effective medicines such as anti-inflammatory tobacco poultices for insect bites and other injuries.

Obviously, the body of medical knowledge accumulated by our species since then has grown in volume and sophistication. In truth, it’s actually overwhelming. This collective information is an enormous resource for doctors and healthcare professionals of all types. Dozens of online libraries, catalogs, and databases are available for help in diagnosis and treatment design.

This rich volume of knowledge, however, has a downside. No individual can possibly know everything about modern medicine. While the specific, pertinent pieces of information needed for a given diagnosis or treatment are almost guaranteed to be out there somewhere, sifting through it all can be menacing. Even if time were not a factor when a patient is suffering, finding the one detail that makes the difference can be difficult. In the hospital scenario, this is a particular problem because time so often is precious.

Healthcare professionals are integral members of our society, and while not all are fantastic, a large majority do tremendous work and are incredibly knowledgeable. Even the most well-trained, experienced doctor still has the flaw of being human, however. Expecting physicians to hold the entirety of human medical knowledge in their working memory and to be able to recall the most obscure details at a moment’s notice is to expect the impossible. This only represents one of the many challenges a physician may face, but this one perfectly matches the skillset of computers.

Mobile AIs with diagnostic capacities and access to all databases will help doctors narrow down the choices significantly by giving them access to information wherever they are. Another technology that will eventually have a huge impact on the healthcare field is virtual reality. Immersive visual technologies like Oculus Rift plus a haptic feedback technology that delivers feelings to the user will allow surgeons to practice rare, dangerous, and difficult surgeries to maximize the safety of the procedure.

Not only would technologies like Google Glass allow doctors to find information on the fly, it would enable expedited communication between doctors, not only in the same hospital but hundreds of miles away as well. Stories like that of South Dakotan Tom Soukup illustrate the transformation of the healthcare system toward one where all medical knowledge is made available to doctors and of use to the consumer.

In Mr. Soukup’s case, he was badly injured by a cow on a ranch outside of the small town of Wagner, South Dakota. The closest hospital’s doctor, however, didn’t have expertise in the kind of surgery that Soukup needed. If it had been a different era, Soukup’s story might have been found in an obituary, but that is not the case.

The doctor in Wagner’s hospital got on a video conference with experts in a Sioux Falls hospital, who were able to direct Soukup’s doctor, most likely saving his life. On the international scale, the ability to get the opinion and guidance of any expert in the world at a moment’s notice has the potential to break down borders between the healthcare communities of all different countries. In time, patients will have access to the very best medical wisdom no matter where they’re located.

The iPhone-smartwatch combination may not seem to be a great step toward the realization of this goal, but time runs at a faster pace in the world of computer technologies than it does elsewhere. With Apple’s entrance into mobile health, we’re going to see a new breed of entrepreneur pushing the envelope of biotech progress.

For too long, medicine has been held back by the glacial pace of last century’s regulatory model. IT executives have a very different attitude, and they’re getting better at influencing policy makers. Biotech progress is already surpassing Moore’s law in many areas, but the arrival of Apple into this area is going to accelerate the industry, compressing time further. This may be the most significant aspect of the company’s newly launched smartwatch.


DISCLOSURE: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors , and do not represent the views of equities.com. Readers should not consider statements made by the author as formal recommendations and should consult their financial advisor before making any investment decisions. "

[niftybunny]

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2gmdju/comprehensive_…

reviews are in

[IngChris]

Apple Watch - Display

Apple Watch to come with AMOLED panels from LG Display

LG Display will supply Apple AMOLED panels for the Apple Watch, with shipments expected to reach
about five million a month in 2015, according to sources at LG Display

The sources said Apple aims to sell upwards of 50 million Apple Watches in 2015.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20140917PD208.html





NXP - NFC

The NFC segment is dominated by NXP Semiconductors, which invented the technology with Sony. Qualcomm, Broadcom, MediaTek and ST Microelectronics are its main competitors.

"NXP Semiconductors definitely will be happy with this development," said Juniper analyst Windsor Holden.

Shares in NXP Semiconductors have been hovering around all-time highs in anticipation of Apple's move into mobile payment.

Asked whether NXP supplies Apple with its NFC chips for the new iPhone, the company declined to comment. Apple suppliers are sworn to secrecy.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/apple-launch-nfc-id…



Hab´ mal ein bisschen in NXP investiert, vielleicht ein bisschen spät, aber man weiss ja nie ....