Lukáš Gondek Beats planned competition for Sonos, Scott Forstall is reaping success with his musical, LeBron James gave his teammates an Apple Watch and the iPhone is said to have really destroyed the BlackBerry...
Broadway's Scott Forstall wins Best Musical (8/6)
Scott Forstall, the former head of iOS who was forced out of the company leave after a failure with the Maps application and disagreements with other executives, he is reaping success in a completely different industry. As a producer of a Broadway musical Fun home can celebrate winning 5 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Forstall does not remain just a passive member in the promotion of the musical and works on marketing himself – for example, he participated in the creation of geo-marking for Snapchat, which generates a sticker with the logo of the musical. In addition, Forstall is also a consultant who makes Snapchat.
Source: Cult of Mac
LeBron James gave his teammates an Apple Watch during the NBA Finals (8/6)
One of the most talented basketball players in the world, LeBron James has a great relationship with his teammates and likes to constantly prove his friendship and trust to them. He gave them an Apple Watch at a team meeting last week. "I'm very fortunate to work with very generous partners and I'm always happy to share with my team," James told reporters. He also receives long-term support from Beats, whose headphones he also gave to his teammates and promoted them several times in commercials.
Source: Cult of Mac
The former head of RIM admitted that the iPhone killed BlackBerry (10/6)
The former head of RIM, the company behind the once-popular BlackBerry phones, Jim Balsillie, admitted during an interview for a newly published book on the history of these mobile phones that the iPhone really caused the downfall of BlackBerry. Three years after leaving RIM, Balsillie said that shortly after the iPhone was released in 2007, it became clear to him that BlackBerry could not compete with him. All this was then confirmed by the catastrophic failure of the first touchscreen BlackBerry, the Storm model. According to Balsillie, it was built under the weight of time and did not manage to properly use all the innovations that were expected of it.
"It had a touch screen, but it was controlled by buttons and had a lot of new features, and all of that betrayed us," admitted Balsillie. Almost every Storm model sold had to be replaced due to defects. Jim Balsillie is said to have believed at the time that BlackBerry's future was in software, and that it would retain customers thanks to its BBM client.
Source: 9to5Mac
The new iPhones could have a significantly improved front camera (10/6)
Apple will introduce new iPhones in the fall, and according to the latest speculations, they should have a lot of new features related to the front camera. At least that's what the mentions in iOS 9 suggest. According to them, the front camera of the new iPhone should be able to record video in both 1080p and 240fps slow-motion. Taking selfies could then be simplified by the flash mode, and the panorama could become an interesting addition.
Source: Cult Of Mac
Beats was supposed to be working on competition for Sonos. The acquisition by Apple interrupted the plans (June 13)
Even before the acquisition by Apple, Beats had planned to come with wireless speakers for living rooms and smaller ones for kitchens and bedrooms, thus taking on the rival brand Sonos. Beats wanted to build chips that would enable wireless transmission via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or NFC themselves, but faced production problems that persisted right up until the company was bought by Apple. He eventually postponed the project indefinitely. The speakers were supposed to be able to play music in sync with other wireless speakers and were to be sold for $750.
Source: The Verge
Flipboard reacts to the new News app: We did this 5 years ago (13/6)
The newly introduced News application, which collects articles in a user-friendly environment, is certainly not revolutionary, and the truth is that there are already many similar applications, among them, for example, the popular Flipboard. During an interview with the BBC, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue mentioned that Apple introduced the concept that Flipboard has been running for more than five years. On the other hand, he notes that he sees no reason to stop working with Apple, as he sees a way to continuously develop his application in it.
Source: 9to5Mac
A week in a nutshell
The biggest event of the last week, and indeed of the last few months, for all Apple fans was definitely the WWDC conference - at which we got acquainted with the new OS X, which was named El Capitan, iOS 9, which will focus to save battery and in which Safari will be able to, among other things block advertising, and the long-awaited streaming service Apple Music, which Apple he called the new home of music that Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine are excited about, but competition, of course leaves they're chilling for now. Maybe also because there will be music to stream with a transmission speed of only 256 kilobits per second, even if the technology is used correctly, the quality of the music will certainly not be lower.
Update after a few weeks on sale he waited even the watchOS system – native applications are coming to it. The good news was that the new systems will run on all devices that ran their latest versions.
During WWDC the presented more figures from the Californian society than had been the custom until now, and women also appeared on stage for the first time. In addition to familiarizing developers with the latest operating systems acted for example, about HomeKit or more economical applications and they gave away with Apple design awards.
It seems that it will not be only Apple, Chrome that saves the energy of our devices is coming with an update that will save the MacBook quite a few hours. In addition, Apple has a lot of other plans that have not yet been presented at WWDC. Most likely to Apple TV they are going to third-party applications and in Apple Maps we could soon use the apple version of Street View. Phil Schiller let it be known last week that the thickness of Apple's iPhone chose certainly good, and we could familiarize ourselves with the ranking that us showed, which emoji we use the most in the Czech Republic.
