Apple. Cult of Mac | The Mac, the iPod, the iPhone - and the people who love them. Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About. iPad Review - First iPad Review, I played with it on 1/27. Update 4/5/2010: we had much more time to write an in-depth review if the iPad. It supersedes this one and can be found here: iPad Review. Shortly after the Apple Launch in San Francisco, we had the opportunity to play with an iPad for long enough to have an idea of how it feels to use one and how the iPad looks in the real world. After months of speculation, we have to say that the overall pre-launch perception correct was at times correct (hardware+OS) and plain wrong on other topics – like the pricing.
You’ve seen all the info, and now it’s time to answer the question: how is it to use one? Responsiveness The first thing that I pay attention to in a touch device is how “responsive” it is. Despite the vastly superior resolution, when compared to the iPhone, the iPad is just as responsive (or may be even more so) than the iPhone 3GS. Watch the responsiveness of the iPad (fullscreen for HD view) The computer is the display Better than E-ink?
Connectivity Wifi, or Wifi+3G Movie Playback iBooks. Is the kindle dead? Ever since Steve Jobs first announced iBooks for the iPad, pundits have been wondering about the future of the Kindle and similar e-book readers in the face of this new competition. Now that we actually have access to an iPad, we had a chance to take a closer look at both the iBooks and Amazon's Kindle for iPad apps. We are still waiting for the B&N iPad app, but both iBooks and iPad for Kindle already highlight the iPad's potential as an e-book reader. iBooks It doesn't come as a surprise that Apple managed to develop the prettier e-reader app. Switching from the iBooks store - which looks a lot like the App Store - to your bookshelf is done through a nifty animation. Newly downloaded books and samples smoothly slide into the bookshelf and thanks to a faux 3d look and a page-flip animation, the app itself mimics the look and feel of a book.
Flipping the iPad to landscape mode switches iBooks from displaying on page per screen to a more book-like two-page view. iBooks Store. The first iPad man at Apple Store Palo Alto on Flickr - Photo Sh. Stats iPad in the US. Sentiment Is Split On The iPad: People Either Love It, Or Hate O. Now that the iPad is here, and everyone who waited in line has one in their hands, the opinions are coming in from actual consumers and everyone else. All of this iPad mania is splitting people into two even camps: either you are one of the few who is lovingly stroking one in your hands right now (or wish you were), or you don’t get what the fuss is all about and just want to stop hearing about the stupid iPad.
If sentiment on Twitter is any guide, people Tweeting about the iPad either love it or hate it. And the haters are a slightly larger group at 51 percent. TweetFeel is showing 59 percent positive Tweets rights now. Most of the positive Tweets are along the lines of “Man, this iPad is sweet!” The negative ones are more like this one: You only need the Ipad if you are a giant ok people? Or telling everyone to shut up about it: Or this one: In honour of the release of the stupid iPad which is stupid. Apple Sounds the PC Death Knell. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSteven P. Jobs discussing iCloud, which will automatically sync photos, videos and music without the need of a PC.
If Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, gets his way, the PC could be on its last legs. For over two years now, Mr. Although the company has been discussing this concept for some time, it has not offered a solution to ditch the PC and go completely mobile. Until now, that is. On Monday, during a presentation in San Francisco to showcase its new software and services, Apple finally began giving people the option to bypass a PC altogether. “We are going to demote the PC to just be a device.
Once these new services begin later this fall, people who buy an iOS device can fully get by without a computer. With Monday’s announcement’s, Apple is reiterating the irrelevance of the personal computer that Mr. But where is the PC going to go? Apple also can’t believe the PC is going away completely. For Mr. Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Reviews, Help, Tips, and News. OS X Daily. Apple.
Jailbreak. Mac Connection - Servers, Notebooks, Printers, Storage and Netwo. Apple News | Apple news, announcements, product releases, review. iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows. Apple’s announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function — killing Microsoft. Here is the money line from Jobs yesterday: “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device – just like an iPad, an iPhone or an iPod Touch. We’re going to move the hub of your digital life to the cloud.” Just like they used to say at Sun Microsystems, the network is the computer. Or we could go even further and say our data is the computer. This redefines digital incumbency.
The incumbent platform today is Windows because it is in Windows machines that nearly all of our data and our ability to use that data have been trapped. What this requires from Apple is a bold move that Microsoft would never make: Jobs is going to sacrifice the Macintosh in order to kill Windows. Apple Now Has More Cash than U.S. Government. It must feel good to be a part of Apple today: The company was proclaimed the world's top smartphone vendor by Strategy Analytics, and its cash reserves are now bigger than the U.S. government's balance. Apple is now the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume with 18 percent market share, according to Strategy Analytics' report.
Nokia is now number three with 15%, behind Samsung, which grew an amazing 520% annually to grab a 17% share of the global smartphone market. Also, with a $75.9 billion balance, Apple is obviously doing really well in the "cash reserves" department, but it sounds even better when you hear the U.S. Treasury Department say that the government now has a total operating balance of $73.8 billion. Apple's stock price recently surged passed $400, and its total market capitalization is more than $363 billion, which makes it the second largest company in the world, behind Exxon Mobil. Exclusive: Apple near cloud-music deals. Apple has signed a cloud-music licensing agreement with EMI Music and is very near to completing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, multiple music industry sources told CNET.
Warner Music Group already had a deal in place with Apple, CNET reported last month. The licensing agreements will enable Apple to launch a fully licensed cloud-music service to rival unlicensed offerings of rivals Amazon and Google. The negotiations with Sony Music Group and Universal Music Group could be wrapped up as early as next week, the sources said.
What this means is that signed contracts with all four of the top four record companies will be in Apple's hip pocket on June 6 when Apple kicks off the company's Worldwide Developers Conference. Representatives from the labels as well as Apple declined to comment. The cloud is the term used to describe when a person uses a third-party's servers for computing instead of a local PC. AppleInsider | Apple news and rumors since 1997. Apple Store 2.0 revealed: Startup Sessions, interactive iPad signage, new sound/display systems, new app? | 9 to 5 Mac Apple Store 2.0 revealed: Startup Sessions, interactive iPad signage, new sound/display systems, new app. A source has just dropped a load of unconfirmed information on us for what is being internally referred to as “Apple Store 2.0.”
Apple Store 2.0 is a major makeover for the Apple retail store experience. Apple has been working on this new type of Apple store for a while now and the development’s ceiling does not only reach Apple’s Senior VP of Retail Ron Johnson, but was led by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Apple design chief Jony Ive. Like we reported before, Apple is taking their personal setup service very seriously. Even more so in Apple Store 2.0. Personal Setup will have new dedicated areas in stores called “Startup Sessions.”
Next, these new Apple Stores – at least in some locations – will feature beefed up displays, which are described as “huge,” in addition to brand-new sound systems. Update: Additional sources have let us know that stores have received some boxes today that are only to be opened by the store’s visual manager. Thanks Anonymous.