Apple’s leader Steve Jobs has often conceded his respect for Sony, but scored a home run around the Japanese consumer electronics company when he introduced the iPod, after which the rest is now history. Now Sony plans a fightback, running to the cold embrace of Google’s Android for a future iPhone competitor (probably).
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Led by the Apple iPad tablets seem set to become a big big business in 2011, with flash memory shipments set to triple as a result, according to iSuppli.
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Say what you like about Apple, but when push comes to shove part of the reason for its success is that at heart, consumers love their Macs.
The table shows us the results of an American Customer Satisfaction Index survey which showed Apple totaled a 86, (up from 84) out of 100 for the past 12 months. The company has hit a new high in customer satisfaction.
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COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s iPad hints at an end-to-end Apple network strategy for television everywhere, but is the television industry ready to be reinvented? Meanwhile Radiohead hint they are looking at the iPad — might the band explore the new app universe for its ‘In Rainbows’ album follow-up?
Napster is back (well it has been for a while), and while it isn’t really the same service that became so very legendary back in 1999 (new management), it is now available — on your iPhone.
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Here’s a little video for your Monday morning. It will be of particular interest to retro Apple watchers, as it shows us Apple’s previous handheld, the Newton OS, running on an iPhone.
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Computerworld: Apple’s iPad landed in China this morning. And in the usual way, Apple Store staff cheered and high-fived shoppers as they entered the stores, queues formed overnight and sales seemed brisk. Meanwhile the results are in — iPad isn’t just killing the netbook market, it’s grabbing half of the PC laptop market, too, at least according to Best Buy. And Apple is already assembling components for the iPad 2, set to debut early next year.
No sooner has Apple accomplished a world-class smash with the original iPad than it has begun moving toward manufacture of the second-generation version of the device.
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Best Buy CEO Brian Dun claims the iPad has cannibalized sales of PC laptops by as much as 50 per cent.
His remarks are contained within an interview with the Wall Street Journal in which Dun describes the retailer’s move to offer a wider selection of digitally-connected gadgets. Expect to see smartphones, eBook readers and iPods in full view at BestBuy this Holiday Season, the report informs us.
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Apple has started shipping its much-expected 27-inch aluminium and glass LED Cinema Display.
The $999 display delivers a crystal-clear 2,560-x-1,440 resolution with a 178-degree viewing angle. It boasts a MagSafe connector which charges your Apple notebook, three USB 2.0 ports and a Mini DisplayPort cable.
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Computerworld: What happened to objective news reporting? Why are so many reports inaccurately characterizing Apple as losing the marketshare battle with Anrdoid on basis of statistics which include an iPhone product transition? It seems strange to me.
Apple’s iAd system has won the scorn of Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, who told Reuters last night the ad system will “fall apart for them”.
Bartz believes most advertisers will eventually reject Apple’s ad system because the company demands too much control over what advertisers do.
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Apple has updated Final Cut and Logic Studio, issuing its Pro Applications Update 2010-02.
The update offers improved versions of Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5 and Qmaster 3.5, but most changes affect Final Cut Pro.
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Computerworld: The iPad is going to save publishing, adapt education, change corporations and offer newspaper subscriptions soon — not bad for a product introduced only this year. Perhaps that’s why Apple’s signed-up a new supplier to raise iPad manufacture to a potential three million per month — 36 million per year.
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If you’ve been sitting back all excited over Project Sword and waiting for the release of the game then you have an excuse to get even more excited on news Epic Games intends releasing its Unreal development kit for iOS soon!
Yes, gamers, this means a tidal wave of Unreal-engine driven mobile games will be slamming themselves down on iPods, iPhones and iPads soon (ish).
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Notice that the new iPod holds its own against all other iOS devices (except the iPad).
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Just in case anyone out there was wondering about any differences between the iPod touch and the iPhone 4 let this series of videos from Letemsvetemapplem.eu educate you. More after the break.
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Apple has seeded the latest version of Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H542 to its developer community, the new build replaces the previous edition which was itself introduced on September 2.
There’s multiple fixes included in this release:
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Apple may have originally attempted to encourage development of Web applications before it introduced the App Store (and ain’t it glad it did), but now apps on smartphones are a bona fide US hit, with 35 percent of US adults having apps on their phones, though only one-in-four US adults actually use these apps. Still, that ain’t a bad record.
The most recent Pew Internet Life survey tells us that among mobile phone owners, 29 percent have downloaded apps to their phones and 13 percent have paid for the privilege.
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We like the look of Watts, a new application from Binary Tricks designed to keep your MacBook or MacBook Pro battery in good shape.
The application will calibrate your laptop battery for you, ensuring accurate battery power display in the indicator and maximizing the gathering and maintenance of battery charge.
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Computerworld: In attempting to rally their remaining troops with anti-Apple rants, both Amazon and Nokia unwittingly expose the fear afflicting management at both firms. With Amazon reticent on actual Kindle sales figures and Nokia facing declining European market share, does their mockering flattery betray low company morale?
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Nick Denton and Eric Schmidt get to live another day!
Got to chuckle at this one: He’s saved the company he co-founded from bankruptcy and engineered one of the biggest business turnarounds ever seen. He disrupted industry after industry with the Mac, iPod and iPhone — and he’s a secret ninja (kinda).
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Nokia remains the dominant smartphone provider in Europe but competitors are whittling away at its European marketshare, the latest July stats from comScore reveal.
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Nokia is hosting its annual event Nokia World this week, and company VP Markets, Niklas Savander has used the event to diss competitors, including iPhone maker, Apple.
Pointing out that Nokia remains the market leader, Savander said
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Apple has introduced a new Express Lane service to its customer support system, an online engine that should help customers find the support they need.