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There have been a host of complaints about the iPad - it doesn't do this, it doesn't have that, why can't it, I wish it would, it's closed ... Even Hitler was disappointed . All this misses the point. The iPad represents a fundamental shift in the metaphors and language of "computing."
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Editor’s note : This is a guest post written by Jeremy Allaire , founder and CEO of Brightcove . Prior to Brightcove, Jeremy founded Allaire Corporation which was subsequently acquired by Macromedia due to the success of their web development tool ColdFusion. At Macromedia, Jeremy helped create the Macromedia MX (Flash) platform. You can see a recent interview of Jeremy here . As one of the guys who helped build the Flash Platform, we asked him to weigh in on the recent HTML5 v.
Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More French game developer Gameloft , listed on Euronext Paris, this afternoon shared its 2009 financial results with the world. The video game publisher achieved consolidated sales of €122.0 million – roughly $170 million – for 2009, up 11% compared to 2008.
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The practical part of dealing with tech is always the financial wake up call that comes with it all. Usually its the big ideas that bring about the big money but for most of us we are just trying to muscle it out and make a few bucks off our little inventions like apps or maybe something bigger when it comes to programing and what not. If you haven’t noticed there has been a big rise in tech jobs in Florida. Its almost like the new silicon valley.
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There's a ton of debate about Apple's iPad this week, of course. But among the celebrations, suspicions and drama one thing's been overlooked. The iPad's killer feature could be not what you view on it, but what you plug into it. For the first couple of years Apple's iPhone remained a very one-way device: You used Apple's cable and its 30-pin connector, plugged it into iTunes and sent pretty much everything into the phone, only sucking comparatively small bits and bobs of data (photos mainly) back out of the beast. All that changed when Apple released the iPhone 3.0 software for the device, which gave the OS much more powerful control over the kinds of data that could be received and transmitted from third party hardware through its data port.
The introduction of Apple's long-anticipated iPad last week has amplified the already considerable interest in mobile applications and the iPhone. Apple SVP of iPhone software Scott Forstall predicted a new gold rush, an echo of the frenzy that has created 140,000 third-party apps in less than two years. Companies that develop iPhone applications -- and soon iPad applications -- for corporate clients, suggest that there may be something to the marketing hype. Joshua Greenman, president of Mercury Development , a custom application developer based in St. Louis, Mo., said he'd seen a flurry of new interest in iPad apps and continued interest in the iPhone.
iPad Enterprise Apps
Apple's iPad launch marks the start of a new market segment for media tablets that - according to analysts at ABI Research - will see four million units shipped this year. By 2015, shipments are forecast to reach about 57 million annually."Apple's iPad is not the first media tablet," says senior analyst Jeff Orr. "But it does help define this new device category.
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The Rise of Tablets... And Why You Should Care
Even before Apple announced the iPad last week, the Internet was going tablet-crazy. After speculation, literally years in the making, finally built to a crescendo, the public reaction has been decidedly mixed . Discussions about what’s missing and why the announcement was a disappointment have been covered from nearly every angle. However, whether Apple’s iPad ultimately succeeds or fails, it is yet another sign of an emerging device class. With Google , Microsoft , and others investing in researching tablet-style computers, this is a trend that will not begin or end with the iPad.Officially, Google won't confirm any solid plans to release a tablet device when their new netbook-ready operating system, Chrome OS , debuts later this year. However, documentation appearing recently on the Chromium project website , the home of the open source code on top of which Chrome is built, shows that a tablet PC is a form factor the Internet giant is definitely considering. Assuming such a device was ever to launch, it would pit Google's vision for the future of mobile computing up against that of Apple's iPad , the highly-anticipated multi-touch tablet launched late last month to mixed reviews. While both the Apple slate and the possible Google Chrome tablet tout sleek and shiny elegance on the outside, the two computing devices could not be more different on the inside. And when it comes time to buy, consumers will have to make a choice: what sort of tablet is the future of computing?
