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iPad shipments are at 1.2 million per month and seem on target to reach 2.5 million per month by the end of the year, an analyst says, citing sources within Apple

We talked about OnLive, the online streaming gaming concept last year.  You are basically playing games on a super fast remote desktop.  Since then they’ve continued to improve the service and have it ready for takeoff with a special starter deal:

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So the question everybody in the US will be asking has to be:

Huge iPhone 4 pre-sales set new mobile device records. But what’s sparking this wave of interest? New features such as the video camera and faster processor inside iPhone 4 alongside the much-improved iOS 4 are just part of the package prompting this colossal interest, hints Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty.

As reported by Apple 2.0, Huberty cites a proprietary Morgan Stanley survey which suggests the upgrade rate will be over 50%. She expects the iPhone installed base to climb from 30 million at the end of 2009 to 100 million at the end of 2011.

Reasons users may upgrade include:

• Redesigned hardware with many new important features
• “Stickiness” of the installed base due to App store and iTunes
• 57% of U.S. installed base is not fully upgradeable to iOS4 (i.e. no multitasking)
• Early upgrade incentives from AT&T
• Maturation of the installed base.

In the main, most analysts believe Apple

Apple has put in orders for the manufacture of a CDMA-compatible iPhone, Digitimes this morning claims. The news is likely to spark new speculation Verizon may end up offering the iPhone on its network, as that

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs talk at D:All Things Digital last month has been made available for download via iTunes.

Explaining the move, John Paczkowski says, via Digital Daily:

AT&T and Apple have today confirmed massive pre-orders for the iPhone 4, reaching levels ten times those made for the iPhone 3GS — just as confirmed this morning by Deutsche Telekom.

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AT&T this morning has “temporarily suspended” iPhone 4 pre-orders, following yesterday’s widely-reported melt-down of its ordering systems.

UPDATE: This story seems to be breaking — now we learn AT&T’s iPhone pre-ordering systems may not have actually been tested pre-launch!!

The move follows a day of chaotic scenes at computer terminals in five countries yesterday, as iPhone 4 desiring consumers fruitlessly banged their fingers against the keyboard in hope that somehow their pre-order would get through.

As previously reported, it wasn’t just AT&T that creaked under the strain, Deutsche Telekom also faced

AT&T’s melt down might have not just been poor forcasting on their part.  There might have been unexpected, pent up demand.  In Germany, iPhone 4 demand may have been ten times higher than for the iPhone 3GS when it went on pre-sale last year – and things are the same in the US.
AT&T has released the following statement since this report was first created.

“iPhone 4 pre-order sales yesterday were 10-times higher than the first day of pre-ordering for the iPhone 3G S last year. Consumers are clearly excited about iPhone 4, AT&T’s more affordable data plans and our early upgrade pricing.

“Given this unprecedented demand and our current expectations for our iPhone 4 inventory levels when the device is available June 24, we’re suspending pre-ordering today in order to fulfill the orders we’ve already received.

“The availability of additional inventory will determine if we can resume taking pre-orders.”

It wasn’t just AT&T that creaked under the strain. Deutsche Telekom faced

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Good news for Mac gamers — buoyed by years of working together on the Mac, Apple, ATI and NVIDIA are now

A chain of 100 Apple-focused retail stores will open in China within three years thanks to the little brother of Foxconn founder, Terry Gou.

T.C. Gou intends opening stores across China to sell Macs, iPods, iPads and other products manufactured at his brother

Be prepared for strong initial sales on the iPhone 4, with Apple seemingly in talks to widen distribution in most territories while consumer trade-ins of previous model iPhones hit new records as users prepare to buy the latest model.

Perhaps it is the video calling, perhaps the front-facing camera, but Apple

Softbank has revealed Japanese prices for the iPhone 4. Prices are “technically” unsubsidized — but the carrier has introduced different data deals designed to ease the pain (a little).

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Google’s future Chrome OS will apparently let users access applications on their Mac or PC remotely — why this claim hints at the pervasive future of the Mac OS at the end of the PC age. Read more.

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Safari 5 has emerged as the leading HTML5-standards-compatible browser, at least for now.

A website dedicated to browser performance tests has introduced new tests for support for the stndard, designed to show how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications.

Ars isn’t drinking the Kool-Aid.  On one hand Apple is blocking other companies’ analytics (which face it, makes ads useless) and enforcing their own iAds on iPhone apps, while on the other hand, it offers Safari reader which blocks Internet ads (which it has no part of) in Safari.

There is something contradictory

Apple has begun seeding an all-new pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.6.4, build number 10F566.

The new beta ships with identical seed notes to the last distributed build and seems to contain no known issues. It is a 613.8MB file in its delta form.

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After the WWDC keynote, the mobile industry plot thickens on fresh analysis which claims Samsung is using exactly the same ARM-based processor as Apple does inside its new crop of mobile devices. This seems to fly in the face of all understanding of the A4 chip, can this really be true? Read more…