Mobile phones were already a part of an etiquette revolution years before AirPods became popular. They went from being a novelty to a necessity in a short period of time. Mobile phones are part of our daily lives, and we touch them more than 2600 times per day. We treat them with a tenderness that...
Tag: Apple
What Apple’s email privacy changes mean for your mailing list
By now you’ve probably heard about Apple’s privacy changes that will come into effect with iOS 15 in September. This change will have a significant impact on businesses that use mailing lists to engage their customers. This is on top of handling PII compliance (PII = personally identifiable information) which is in itself a complex...
Was Apples EMail-Datenschutzänderungen für Ihre Mailingliste bedeuten
Sie haben wahrscheinlich schon von den Datenschutzänderungen von Apple gehört, die im September mit iOS 15 in Kraft treten werden. Diese Änderung wird erhebliche Auswirkungen auf Unternehmen haben, die Mailinglisten verwenden. Entscheidet sich ein Benutzer, den Datenschutz von Apple für E-Mails zu verwenden, deaktiviert Apple Mail die Tracking-Pixel in Apple Mail. Apple verbirgt auch IP-Adressen,...
Inital numbers show that 88% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5
Numbers by the data analytics firm Flurry show that just 12% of iPhone users wordlwide actively opt into app tracking. In the U.S. the numbers are even lower, with just 4% opting in. Until iOS 14.5, apps were able to use Apple’s Identifier for Advertiser (IDFA) for tracking users across webapges and apps. This helped...
Initial IDFA Apocalypse Tidbits
Apple’s iOS 14.5 update requires apps to show users a prompt asking for their consent before tracking them across other apps and websites. It’s called App Tracking Transparency or ATT and has caused a considerable uproar of the online advertising community and juggernauts like Facebook. After the roll-out of Apple’s iOS 14.5 update, initial numbers...
Android on iOS
Samsung has published a new website called “iTest“. This webpage is aimed at iPhone users to give them a taste of Android. As an iPhone user, you’ll be asked to add the page to your home screen. This installs a Progressive Web App (PWA) that simulates an Android GUI and provides some demos of existing...
Use Your Voice
Voice interfaces have been around for quite some time now. It started in the early 1950s with “Audrey” that could recognize numbers. Over the years, systems became more and more powerful, and in 2011 Apple brought Siri to the mobile phone mass market. A short and incomplete history In the history of voice interfaces, there...
Clubhouse
Clubhouse is the latest app hype. The app is what is known as proximity chat where you can talk with all kind of people. Getting in is not that easy, because you can only join by invitation and only if you have an iPhone, no Android users can become members so far. Anyone who has...
iOS 14 Changes Aren’t Bad for Small Businesses After All
Facebook’s full-page ad campaign claims that Apple’s new policy, which will ask users to opt-in for tracking, will hurt small businesses. While it cannot be denied that small businesses depend on advertising, Facebook’s monopoly on social media and it’s popularity means that many small businesses depend on Facebook. For example, take a look at the...
Fortnite set to return to iPhones via Nvidia cloud gaming service – BBC News
Nvidia has developed a version of its GeForce cloud gaming service that runs as Progressive Web App. This move makes Nvidia independent from Apple’s store policies and owners of iPhones and iPads could soon be able to play Fortnite again. By doing that, Apple will not get their cut for sales of virtual items which...
