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Whole Best Buy Launch Playbook leaked.

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 28 2010 - 9:25 pm PT
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Engadget got their hands on the goods.  There’s not much to write home about unless you plan on being one of the 15 people on line at Best Buy for the launch.  That’s right, they are only going to have 15 per store at launch…Five each of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models.  They will get restock of 15 more for their April 11th ad.    If you plan on getting one at a Best Buy, you might want to go get your camping gear now.

They are also going to have a Demo/Workshop at 22 locations:

Best Buy leaks iPad launch playbook

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 27 2010 - 12:07 pm PT
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Best Buy is going to be carrying the iPad Wifi at launch, in case you hadn’t heard.  According to this screenshot from Engadget, they’ll also be doing a big iPad ad on April 11th.  Other than that, the details pretty much line up with previous reports (Only 675 nationwide Best Buy Apple Shops will carry the iPad, not mobile stores…yet).

Just 1 question: What is Apple App for iPad?  AppleCare is $99 so that would represent a $20 discount. 

Update: A commenter who used to work at Best Buy say APP is “Advanced Protection Plan”.  He is most certinly not down with APP. Others say that it is Applecare at a $20 discount.

Updated: Better Image from here.

Newsweek iPad cover story speculates family of bigger and smaller iPads coming in the fall

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 27 2010 - 9:40 am PT
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Newsweek’s cover story this week entitled “What’s So great About the iPad? Everything!” is unsurprisingly about Apple’s iPad, which will launch at the end of the week.  Author Dan “Fake Steve” Lyons covers what Apple watchers probably already know (but is still a great read) – that it will be a big game-changing success.  Interestingly, on the last page we get this:

Paul Saffo, a tech forecaster and professor at Stanford University, expects Apple to roll out a family of other iPad models

iPad Camera Connection Kit now on Apple Store, ships late April $29

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 27 2010 - 9:22 am PT
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The iPad Camera Connection Kits have finally hit the Apple Store and show a shipping time of Late April.  On this, we’re still wondering is if you’ll be able to use these things as storage for videos and music as well.  For instance, you buy a few cheap 32GB SD cards and a $30 Camera connection kit and you have more storage than a 64GB iPad.  Apple, thinking ahead, has made it pretty unwieldy and probably won’t let you play media directly from the reader anyway.  Drat.

Apple runs out of first week's worth of iPads, now pushed back to April 12th. In-store pickup option removed.

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 27 2010 - 9:10 am PT
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If you haven’t already ordered your iPad, you’ll now have to wait to April 12th to get your hands on one, according to Apple’s Website.  The Wifi models have moved from an April 3rd delivery date to April 12th, signaling that Apple has run out of its first week’s worth of Wifi iPads.  We already knew that demand is pretty strong, and this is another indication that sales will be brisk.

Also, forget about reserving one for in-store pickup.  That’s over too. (thanks commenter)

via Planet iPad

Apple now owns the 'iPad' trademark outright

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 26 2010 - 4:16 pm PT
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It looks like something went down behind closed doors because Apple now owns the rights to the iPad name outright.  Fujitsu relinquished any control over the name last week according to the USPTO.  Fujitsu had maintained that it owned the iPad name because of a product it had discontinued a few years back.  They had, however let the name expire which led Apple to pounce on it.  Before Apple could, however they applied to get it back.  Yada yada.

I have a feeling a few $$ changed hands. (via Giz via Furrot) 


Taliban using iPhones to overthrow Australian forces in Afghanistan

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 26 2010 - 11:06 am PT
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Here’s an interesting story coming out Australia.  It appears that Taliban forces in Afghanistan have been using iPhones with multiple SIMs and applications to overthrow Australian defenses, which use much more expensive and sophisticated technology.

At the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Canberra Branch conference this morning, Department of Defence chief technology officer (CTO) Matt Yannopoilos said “bad guys” in the war-torn country were making better use of available data by “using iPhones and applications

Apple iPad delays caused by Wintek, being remedied by Wintek

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 26 2010 - 10:31 am PT
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Digitimes last week said that Apple iPad delays were caused by Wintek‘s touch-panel production bottlenecks and low yields:

Taiwan-based touch panel supplier Wintek has been blamed for a delay of Apple’s iPad shipments, according to a Chinese-language report on Liberty Times. The report claimed that Wintek is facing a manufacturing bottleneck in its touch panel production, and its low yield rate for touch panels has hampered its shipments to Apple.

Today, however, Wintek is coming to the rescue  of rival touch panel maker, TPK Touch Solutions who are themselves having issues with delayed shipments of iPad touch panels:

Taiwan-based TPK Touch Solutions has seen Apple shift orders for iPad-use projected capacitive touch panels to fellow maker Wintek because of TPK’s delayed shipments, according to industry sources in Taiwan

Confusing.

Best Buy 'Store-within-a-Store' to have iPads at launch?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 26 2010 - 12:55 am PT
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We’re hearing as well as MacRumors that Best Buy Apple “Store-within-a-Store” locations (about half the over 1000 total locals) will carry the iPad at launch.  The iPads won’t initially be at Best Buy Mobile or regular Best Buy stores but they’ll likely pick up the device at some point later, perhaps when 3G is rolled out.

 Reports curiously indicate that the demo units encompass four separate SKUs, while Apple is launching only three Wi-Fi iPad models on April 3rd. The identity of the fourth model to be demoed is unknown, although it is possible that stores may be receiving a Wi-Fi + 3G model, scheduled for launch in late April, for demo purposes.

Steve Jobs previously emailed a concerned Apple customer that the iPads would be available at Apple Stores and Best Buys at launch.  Said Jobs:

“Initially at Apple Retail and online stores and Best Buy,”


Geohot demonstrates untethered Jailbreak, works for iPad too?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 26 2010 - 12:10 am PT
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For those who would want to tether their iPads/iPhones and use applications like Google Voice, Geohot has a little teaser this evening.

It isn’t clear if he’s used one of the recent iPhone Safari hacks to gain control of the device or if this is something else.

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Are we going to see iPads jailbroken at launch?  

Approved iPad apps starting to show up

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 25 2010 - 4:15 pm PT
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PadGadget has found that iPad apps are starting to show up on the iTunes preview site (but not on the iTunes store or on iPhone/iPod touch).  That’s not a huge surprise since developers have been working on iPad apps for months and Apple started accepting and approving apps last week.  Kokatu says that ‘HD’ is the preferred nomenclature for iPad versions of iPhone games. 

The list so far: Ammoin HD, Azkend HD, Flight Control HD, Grind HD, HD Recovery, Labyrinth 2 HD, NBA Hotshot HD, Numba HD, Plants vs. Zombie HD, Sparkle HD, Worms HD

Via Macrumors

 

Ad agencies preparing for the iPad's new format

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Mar 25 2010 - 11:55 am PT
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The Wall St. Journal today reviews some of the advertising deals that are accompanying  upcoming iPad magazine and newspaper publications out there.

Time magazine has signed up Unilever, Toyota Motor , Fidelity Investments and at least three others for marketing agreements priced at about $200,000 apiece for a single ad spot in each of the first eight issues of the magazine’s iPad edition, according to people familiar with the matter.

Conde Nast also has some big publishers lined up as do other publications including the Wall St. Journal.  iPad advertising looks to be creating an entirely new ad market; one with totally new “in-app” capabilities, yet without a hint of Adobe’s Flash.

The video above shows how one agency is trying to capitalize on iPad marketing.

You aren’t alone if you are annoyed by the narrators of that video.