iPad and Apple
April 1st, 2010 at 11:22 AM EST | by inu846W
If you needed a place to look for video content for the iPad, Apple has just posted a list of the big sites that carry iPad-formatted (no Flash) content:
iPad features Safari, a mobile web browser that supports the latest web standards — including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Here are just a few of the sites that take advantage of these web standards to deliver content that looks and functions beautifully on iPad.
Read more: 9to5Mac.com
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April 1st, 2010 at 10:45 AM EST | by inu846W
By Stephen Fry
It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where Apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough to contain Apple’s current rate of expansion. An additional site is being designed and built. After stocking up on "I visited the mothership" T-shirts at the company store (we fanboys are pathetic, I readily confess), I am shown around the canteen, lawns and public spaces. It is right to call this a campus, for everyone looks and dresses like a student. I should imagine the only people ever caught wearing suits here have been visiting politicians.
Phil Schiller and Eddy Cue are suitably bejeaned and relaxed as they welcome me for a talk about the iPad, Apple’s new product, which will be launched in a week and a half. Schiller is senior VP of worldwide product marketing, responsible for delivering Apple’s latest baby. Cue is VP of Internet services, overseeing the iTunes, App and iBook online stores.
I am here at Apple’s invitation to try out the iPad, and later in my visit I will spend an hour with the company’s boss, Steve Jobs — the first time I’ve ever spent any real time with him. But as I meet with Schiller and Cue, I feel it only fair to reel off the list of negatives the iPad will meet on its release. It falls between two stools — neither small enough to be truly portable nor big enough to be called a proper computer. Everything, I point out, is under Apple’s control, as usual. No Adobe Flash capability, no multitasking, no camera. It’s just a scaled-up iPhone or iPod Touch. (See the best netbooks and netbook accessories.)
"There’s a negative way of saying that," says Schiller, "and a positive. ‘Oh, it’s just a big iPhone … boo!’ or ‘Hey, it’s like a big iPhone … cool!’ Luckily, millions of people have those, so there is an instant ease and familiarity when they first encounter the iPad. As for everything else, it’s not about the features — it’s about the experience. You just have to try it to see what I mean."
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April 1st, 2010 at 8:54 AM EST | by inu846W
With Apple selling out of its first run of iPad preorders, one analyst has upped his estimate for debut, first-quarter, and 2010 iPad sales, predicting the company will likely sell more than 2.7 million this year.
Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray said Thursday his initial estimates of 900,000 sales in the June quarter and 2.7 million in calendar year 2010 "may prove to be conservative." He has compared the introduction of the iPad to the iPhone debut, when Apple sold handsets for $499 without contract in 2007. The original iPhone sold 270,000 at launch.
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March 31st, 2010 at 1:20 PM EST | by inu846W
The upcoming 4.0 reference release of Apple’s iPhone OS will deliver new support for running multiple concurrent third party apps, and allow users to switch between them using a windows management mechanism similar to one made popular on the company’s Mac OS X operating system.
The technology, detailed by people familiar with Apple’s plans for the new firmware, will finally allow users to launch multiple apps in the background and quickly switch between them, as AppleInsider exclusively reported earlier this month. Currently, a running app must be quit when the user returns to the Home screen.
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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March 31st, 2010 at 8:53 AM EST | by inu846W
Because the iPad will further the growing market for cloud computing, international environmental advocacy group has criticized Apple’s newest hardware for having “a much larger carbon footprint than previously estimated.”
The new report from Greenpeace issued this week claims that “quintessential cloud computing devices,” like Apple’s iPad, raise questions about how the Internet is powered. Specifically, the nongovernmental organization said increase demand for online services will also result in a larger demand for “dirty coal power.”
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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March 31st, 2010 at 12:25 AM EST | by inu846W
The launch of the iPad is helping Apple’s iTunes App Store to retain developers’ interest while preventing them from exploring alternative marketplaces for mobile software.
A report by the Wall Street Journal cited Social Gaming Network, an App Store developer, as saying that 90% of its employees were currently working on iPhone OS apps.
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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