April 13th, 2010 at 7:44 AM EST | by inu846W
Consumers looking for one of Apple’s more affordable iPad models may still have trouble finding one at the company’s nation retail chain, where the device continues to sell out during its second full week of availability.
A survey of 15 Apple retail stores conducted this week by investment bank J.P. Morgan found that while 11 stores had the 64 model available for purchase, only 4 stores had stock of 16GB and only another 4 had the 32GB model.
“While the sample stores represent a small fraction of the 221 U.S.-based Apple stores, we believe the targeted stores offer a decent barometer given their geographic distribution and importance,” said analyst Mark Moskowitz.
For example, stores that were completely selling out of all 3 iPad versions at the time of the analyst’s field checks included Palo Alto, Greenwich, CT, and Miami Beach. In contrast, stores that were completely stocked with all 3 models included Chicago, San Francisco, and Kansas City.
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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April 12th, 2010 at 12:53 PM EST | by inu846W
How has week #1 with the iPad been? Pretty good actually. I wasn’t going to get one, but while on a TUAW assignment to get some photos… and kinda sorta held up my hand and did the deed.
I’m glad I did. It’s now a constant companion. I actually prefer surfing the web with it over my laptop because it is small, weighs less, and is quite speedy. I haven’t seen any of the wireless issues some are reporting. Mail is good, but I can’t wait for that unified inbox coming this fall.
I had some need to control a PC, so I looked around for some kind of remote client for the iPad. There were plenty of them the iPhone, but I wanted full resolution. I wound up with RDM+, which is a US$9.99 app that lets me connect to my Macs or PC without any firewall fooling around. Screen updates were fast enough, and installation had no hiccups. I’m sure there are some other solutions, but RDM+ worked very well. I took my iPad to a restaurant and I connected to my PC with a click.
Battery life has been amazing. I use the iPad pretty heavily, and can easily get through 2 days or more without a re-charge. The screen is excellent for displaying still images and video.
Negatives? A few. Mail seems slow to come in. My MobileMe mail will ping my desktop and my iPhone at the same time. Then a minute or so later it will show up on the iPad. Don’t know why this is happening, but it is pretty consistent and it should be fixed. I also don’t like the 15 minute wait before the iPad polls a POP account. I’d like it to offer 5 minute and 1 minute options just like Mail on OS X.
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April 9th, 2010 at 10:05 AM EST | by inu846W
The iPad is not a big smartphone nor a scaled down laptop. It’s not really like any tablet that’s come before it. And for this reason, it will delight users ready for something new, and confuse and upset people who expect it to be something old and familiar.
Read more: AppleInsider.com
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April 5th, 2010 at 11:34 PM EST | by inu846W
It’s pretty clear that new iPad owners are hitting the app store in droves. Books, games and movies are all flying off the virtual shelves. Since you may be suffering from sensory overload, or just looking for some ideas, here are some things I’ve seen that might be worth a look.
I tried Time Magazine (U.S. $4.99) and Popular Science ($4.99) magazines on the iPad. The both look striking on the luscious iPad screen, but neither one really excited me enough to get me to subscribe. Time had nice use of video. Pop Sci looked stunning, but didn’t have a lot of text. I think both magazines will need to come down below 5 bucks an issue to attract readers.
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April 5th, 2010 at 9:58 AM EST | by inu846W
Benchmarking In Your Lap
It’s been a little over 2½ years since I last looked at the performance of Apple’s mobile devices. A lot has changed with the software and hardware since then, let’s take a look at how the new iPad compares to the devices we’re more familiar with.
Native performance
| Test |
iPad/3.2 |
iPhone 3GS/3.0 |
Faster by |
| 100,000 iterations |
0.000035 secs. |
0.000137 secs. |
3.91x |
| 10,000 divisions |
0.000010 |
0.000018 |
1.8x |
| 10,000 sin(x) calls |
0.000012 |
0.000018 |
1.5x |
| 10,000 string allocations |
0.004321 |
0.007915 |
1.83x |
| 10,000 function calls |
0.000338 |
0.000600 |
1.78x |
This first benchmark compares the native performance of the iPad against the iPhone 3GS. The version of the iPhone OS is the one originally released with both devices (3.2 and 3.0, respectively.) The application used to test the devices was a release (optimized) build for ARM v7.
On average, the iPad is about twice as fast as the iPhone 3GS when executing native (Cocoa Touch) applications. Great news for developers, because it gives us much more flexibility when creating our apps.
Read more: Furbo.org
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