It seems that Apples new iMessage service which debuts in iOS 5 is very smoothly integrated into SMS composing. I guess the carriers won't like that - as well as the people from WhatsApp. Seems that Apple is gathering lots of good ideas from App Store Apps and copy-cat'ing them...

Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account. At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to make $1, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any cheaper. They’re already projected to make close to three billion dollars in revenues this year. If you can’t figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

— http://shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/6142108636/groupon-ipo-pass-on-this-deal

So a company that owes $230 million more than it has, and appears to be burning through $100 million or more a quarter, is using money raised from later investors to pay back early investors? Sounds vaguely familiar.

— http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/groupon-groupon-ipo-tech-stocks-linked/6/3/2011/id/34936

iPad today

iPad 0.5

Just pre-ordered a iPad 3G in Germany.

• Apple still doesn't mention iBooks on their features page (http://www.apple.com/de/ipad/features/). No Deal with Axel Springer, yet?
• One can preorder O2 and Vodafone MicroSIMs in Germany, not T-Mobile
• Awkward: When displaying 3G tariff details on apples store page (http://store.apple.com/de/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad), the O2 link says it links to Vodafone as well.
• The link indeed points to O2 (http://www.o2online.de/ipad) - but it seems they're not quite ready yet: The page results in a 404 error. 

Quoting Steve Ballmer:

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

— Interview USA Today, April 2007

Ballmer says they screwed up with Windows Mobile. Wishes they had already lauched WM7. They completely revamped the team.

— Microsoft Venture Capital Summit, September 2009

Read it at contentmanager.de.

... and - hooray! - it allows to suppress loading of images in Mails. No more spam accidential spam confirmations. Thank god. If you are looking for the CalDAV configuration: Settings > Mail/Contact/Calendars > Other. P.S.: Also worth noticing: You can set the double click on the home button also to Search!

When watching the WWDC 2009 Keynote, I wondered how they realized the "Find My iPhone"-Service. In a comment on vowe.net I've found out, that ...

Find My iPhone seems to use the network connection opens for Notification to request the current location of the phone. If you disable notification on your phone, Find my iPhone doesn't work.

Maybe Apple is going to open up that service to 3rd party service providers - like Google Latitude? Having the Browser open for using Google Latitude doesn't seem to me as a viable solution anyway.