iPad In Business
July 8th, 2010 at 11:44 AM EST | by inu846W
Predicting sales of a new product based on demand from eager early adopters can be risky. However, one analyst made such a leap. Bernstein Research analyst Tom Sacconaghi told investors Thursday Apple could sell 25 million iPads in 2011. But, then again, it might sell 18 million tablets next year. It kind of depends, you know?
“An analysis based on extrapolating sales trajectories of [the iPhone, iPod and all netbooks] suggests that Apple could sell a staggering 25 million iPads or more in fiscal 2011,” the analyst wrote. This seems to go along with Apple reporting selling three million iPads in the first 80 days.
Read more: cultofmac.com
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July 7th, 2010 at 11:41 AM EST | by inu846W
Apple (AAPL) shares are trading higher today on another round of Street estimate hikes, as evidence of strong demand for the iPad continues to pile up.
* Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshall repeats his Buy rating, while lifting his price target to $370, from $355. His EPS forecast for the September 2010 fiscal year goes to $16, from $15.75; for FY 2011, he now sees $18.50, up from $17.75. On the other hand, he trims his June quarter estimate to $3.24, from $3.50, to reflect a projected push out of some iPhone units into the September quarter from the June quarter, due largely to supply constraints. He now sees June quarter iPhone units at 7.75 million, down from 8.75 million. “Apple,” he writes, “remains the best technology company on the planet.”
* CLSA Asia Pacific Markets analyst Steve Fox likewise repeats his Buy rating on the shares, lifting his target to $335, from $320. He also raises EPS estimates, to reflect “continued momentum in iPad sales.” His FY 2010 EPS estimate goes to $13.85, from $13.65; for FY 2011 he now sees $17.60, up from $17. He expects iPad sales in the June quarter of 3.4 million units. He also says that checks find LCD panel and touchscreen sensor capacity and yields “are more favorable for iPad supply than we heard just a few weeks ago.” He thinks Hon Hai is poised to ship 18 million iPads in the first 12 months of production.
Read more: Barron’s Tech Trader Daily
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July 7th, 2010 at 11:08 AM EST | by inu846W
A number of companies have turned to Apple’s iPad for their business needs, with the hardware used by employees in giving presentations, accessing work e-mail, approving shipping orders, and a variety of other tasks.
Wells Fargo initially bought 15 iPads, and used two of them in May to demonstrate products at an investor conference, the company told Businessweek. Wells Fargo spent two years looking at the iPhone, but approved the iPad in just two weeks after it was released in April.
Now, the bank plans to buy more — when they’re available. Megan Minich, senior vice-president with the San Francisco, Calif., company, reportedly said they have "a bunch" ordered that they have not yet received.
And Amy Johnson, vice president with Wells Fargo for the company’s online portal and mobile strategy, said she envisions finance officials or account representatives using devices like the iPad to approve multimillion-dollar wire transfers. The company found that finance executives of large companies had used the iPad to access corporate Wells Fargo accounts.
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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July 7th, 2010 at 10:54 AM EST | by inu846W
By David Pakman
The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010 and was quickly heralded by many in traditional print media as a potential rejuvenator for their trouble d bu sinesses. Having used the device daily for th e last six weeks or so, I must admit it is the perfe ct media consumption device, among many other things, for all of my reading (books, magazines, newspapers, blogs, tweets, FB feed, emails, web sites). Given my propensity to multitask, I crave multi-purpose devices and find the Kindle far too limiting a product, especially for the price. The iPad is perfect for email, calendaring, surfing, reading books, digesting RSS feeds, browsing real-time web feeds from Twitter and Facebook, watching movies while traveling, listening to music, checking weather, tuning in to baseball games, and countless other things. It is a far better way to consume magazines and newspapers than any other electronic device I have seen.
Given this, more than five months after it has been announced and the developer tools made available, and more than sixty days after shipping, why is Wired one of the few print publishers to make the leap and offer a version? The WSJ has a decent app (but downloads take forever), the NY Times has an anemic reader which showcases only a handful of stories each day (many duplicated in each section), the NY Post released an app which just offers pictures, and Vanity Fair offers a meager PDF of the print magazine for a whopping $5 per issue. USA Today seemed to step up with a nicely designed app. But it’s telling that so few of the traditional print publishers have taken the last five months to rethink the way a magazine or newspaper ought to be delivered digitally and devote sufficient resources to getting something great out on time. Wired’s editor Chris Andersen made some noise about how his staff did this, but frankly their implementation is also mostly a glorified PDF with some videos thrown in. Amazingly, URLs are not hot-linked in Wired nor Vanity Fair, email addresses are not clickable, text is not selectable nor are articles tweetable.
Read more: BusinessInsider.com
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June 25th, 2010 at 3:54 PM EST | by inu846W
It’s getting easier and easier to enjoy in-flight entertainment on Apple’s briskly moving tablet, but why wait till you get to the gate to dive in? If you’re flying out of Kuala Lumpur, you can play with that 9.7-inch IPS touchscreen while you daydream of that time that watched Entrapment with your soulmate, book your flight, find departure times and even check in at dedicated kiosks. Adapting its iPhone application MHMobile for iPad use, Malaysia Airlines has installed five terminals at Kuala Lumpur Sentral so far — where the company presently serves just 900 customers a day. See the interface in action after the break, or just download the existing app at our more coverage link if you’re in search of that elusive globetrotter feeling.
Read more: Engadget.com
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June 25th, 2010 at 1:29 PM EST | by inu846W
Live Cams, a popular port from the iPhone has finally made it on the iPad. Live Cams HD lets you view over 3,000 public cameras around the world anytime, anywhere on your iPad. How does it stack up compared to the iPhone app? Let’s take a look.
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Live Cams HD is the iPad port of Live Cams for iPhone (Appmodo review) which was reviewed by our own editorial director, Chris Duke, last summer. The app allows you to tap into public webcams set around the world to view any number of places from famous attractions (i.e. Japan’s Mt. Fuji, Egypt’s Pyramids, etc) to watching Shamu swim around his tank at Sea World.
The app can be viewed in either portrait or landscape mode and provides thumbnail previews of twelve webcams per page. Live Cams HD gives you the option to search for a location through their built-in database, select various categories and add your very own camera (only viewed by you, unless you choose to make it public).
Read more: iPadModo.com
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