iPad In Business
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:25 PM EST | by inu846W
Adobe on Tuesday announced its new digital viewer technology, aimed to help publishers convert their magazines to an interactive format viewable on portable devices like Apple’s iPad.
The technology was first demonstrated with last week’s introduction of the Wired magazine e-edition. Though the publication was originally intended to be released based on a version of Adobe’s Flash, the software was completely rewritten in Objective-C for approval on Apple’s App Store.
The iPad edition of Wired has found great success, with the $4.99 issue remaining at or near the top of the App Store sales charts since its debut.
"Adobe’s work with Wired has resulted in a digital magazine format that creates an immersive experience, allowing a publication’s unique content, look and feel and advertising to stand out in the digital realm," said David Burkett, vice president and general manager of Creative Solutions at Adobe. "We aim to make our digital viewer software available to all publishers soon and plan to deliver versions that work across multiple hardware platforms. It’s safe to say that if you are already working in InDesign CS5, you’ll be well on your way to producing a beautiful digital version of your publication."
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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June 3rd, 2010 at 12:18 PM EST | by inu846W
With the iPad crossing the 2 million sales threshold this week, one prominent analyst now believes Apple will sell 6.2 million devices in calendar year 2010, as many of the company’s international stores have limited stock.
Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray issued a note to investors Tuesday, in which he upped his 2010 sales estimates from 4.3 million, citing strong early sales. 6.2 million in 2010 would add another 25 cents to his calendar year 2010 GAAP earnings per share estimates.
However, given ongoing low supplies of the iPad, Munster also cautioned investors that sales could be limited by availability. The analyst said he believes initial international sales over the weekend contributed at least another 100,000 units.
"We conducted 25 checks at Apple stores in the U.K., Germany, France, Japan and Australia, and found that supply exists after the first weekend of sales, but availability is very limited," he wrote.
Among the 14 international sales that were contacted on last Friday’s launch day, 29 percent had sold out. Following the launch weekend, another 11 stores were contacted, and 36 percent were entirely sold out. Similar checks among U.S. Apple stores on May 21 found that 74 percent of stores were completely sold out.
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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May 25th, 2010 at 5:33 PM EST | by inu846W
Vijay Rakesh, an analyst with Sterne, Agee & Leach, said Tuesday that Apple is currently manufacturing between 1 and 1.5 million iPads per month, and that the company could double that production in the September quarter to meet demand, if needed. He based his numbers on checks with memory-chip manufacturers overseas.
“We believe most of the manufacturing bottlenecks are now solved in the iPad supply chain even though memory continues to be a constraint,” the analyst said, according to the Associated Press.
Read more: MacObserver.com
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May 22nd, 2010 at 7:31 AM EST | by inu846W
The Financial Times has made its way to the iPad with the newly released Financial Times iPad Edition app. Optimized for Apple’s latest mobile device, the app provides instant access to the financial newspaper’s award-winning global news, video, comment and analysis. From now until July 31, users get free, unrestricted access to the publication.
The FT app features a lovely interface and lets you download the entire iPad edition for offline reading, which is a big plus for subway commuters who lack 3G access while underground. You can also customize the order of the pages to suit your preferences as well as view FT’s video coverage.
Read more: PCWorld.com
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May 21st, 2010 at 3:17 PM EST | by inu846W
Let’s face it. Apple and the legal profession have not always enjoyed a terribly close relationship.
Since the advent of the word processor, being a lawyer practically required a PC. Lawyers’ slavish dedication to Corel’s Word Perfect, long after everybody else had stopped using it, is the stuff of legend. Database management programs were typically proprietary things, all requiring networks of PCs. Using a Mac in this environment required, at best, many workarounds, and, at worst, a separate PC to access various schedulers, run conflict checks and access documents.
Recently, e-filing and the need to share and trade digital documents allowed for greater platform-independence. Macs, iPhones and now iPads claim their share of diehard legal adherents; you can get stories from the front lines of Apple integration in law from sites like The Mac Lawyer, MacAttorney, EsquireMac, the Disability Law Blog and the MacLaw mailing list.
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May 20th, 2010 at 10:47 AM EST | by inu846W
In a research note released today, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky increased his estimate of 2010 iPad sales from 5 million to 8 million, citing upcoming international launches and continued strong sales in the U.S. as evidenced by retail store shortages. For the current quarter, which runs through late June, Abramsky is predicting iPad sales in excess of 1.8 million units in the United States and an additional 600,000 in the nine new countries receiving the device on May 28th, pushing quarterly sales to 2.5 million, up from earlier estimates of 1.5 million.
Continued strong iPad sales in the U.S. are estimated in excess of 200,000 per week, nearly double that of current Mac unit sales.
Checks indicate that US iPad sales remain strong post-launch, driven by rising consumer visibility to iPad’s user experience, sustained PR/word-of-mouth marketing, 3G iPad launch, and broadening iPad apps/content. We believe Apple is now selling >200k iPads/wk, greater than US Macs (est. 110k Macs/wk) and just below US iPhone 3GS first qtr (246k/wk).
Read more: MacRumors.com
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