How iPads, apps and YouTube can be a band’s best practice tools
While OS X continues to be a starting point for my music, I find now when it comes to rehearsals, everything I need is on my iPad. Read more »
What Apple really means when it says it has “sold” a product
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When Apple says it sold 37.5 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads this is often interpreted as Apple declaring that 37.5 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads have been purchased by customers. That’s not quite the whole story. Read more »
Whoops! Windows 8 do-over on the way
Uh oh. Looks like Windows 8 is due for some changes, according to a Financial Times report featuring thoughts from a Microsoft executive. Read more »
iPad is top selling tablet, but Android now most common tablet OS, says IDC
Tablet sellers had a really good first quarter. As a result, Apple’s overall share of tablet sales is slipping. Read more »
Apple stock tanks on bad news from audio chip supplier
Cirrus Logic is believed to be the main supplier of audio chips for the iPhone and iPad. It missed badly on revenue and has some investors worried that Apple way overestimated the number of mobile devices it could sell during the quarter. Read more »
Hopscotch iPad app looks to teach building blocks of coding to girls
Rather than making young people wade through incomprehensible strings of words and numbers, writing code in Hopscotch consists of dragging and dropping different cute characters and running scripts on them. Read more »
Intel’s dilemma and the slowly crumbling PC ecosystem
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Intel is looking for a new CEO and its looks at internal candidates. The big problem: they are all kids of the PC revolution. What Intel needs is fresh thinking, much like Microsoft to get out of the crumbling PC ecosystem. Read more »
Microsoft takes hits after bad PC numbers
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With Q1 PC sales breaking records — and not in a good way — Microsoft is taking heat with two analysts downgrading its shares. Read more »
The PC market is a horror show right now
We can pretty much stop arguing about whether the PC industry is deathly ill or not: the numbers speak for themselves, with its worst quarter since tracking began in 1994. Read more »
FT launches “second generation” web app, says online payments will soon be much easier
The FT launched a new version of its iPad offering, a move that reinforced the publication’s contrarian web-only mobile strategy, and an FT executive predicts that the problem of collecting mobile payments outside of app stores will soon be solved. Read more at paidContent »
China consumer group demands Apple offer 2-year iPad warranties
China’s top consumer watchdog group is the latest to attack Apple over issues of consumer protection. It’s the latest bout of criticism Apple has received in the Chinese media. Read more »
Why the EU is unlikely to crack down on Apple over its carrier contracts
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French carriers have reportedly made an unofficial complaint to EU competition authorities over Apple’s iPhone sales quotas. The Commission is unlikely to see this as a matter for an antitrust investigation. Read more »
Not just for iPhone anymore: YouTube Capture comes to iPad, iPad mini
The folks at YouTube are aware that filming with an iPad can be physically and socially awkward — it reminded users of the iPad app to “film wisely so your iPad isn’t blocking everyone’s view.” Read more »
IDC tablet takeaway: Androids to outsell iPads this year as tablet sizes, prices shrink
That small slate market — which in Apple’s eyes, didn’t exist — will account for more sales than larger slates, says IDC. And due to lower prices, Android’s tablet market share will reach just past that of iOS this year. Read more »
Why, again, isn’t there an iPad-optimized Instagram app?
When you look at the ownership trends among tablets, and particularly iPads, it starts to become rather puzzling that there aren’t as many photo apps made specifically for the iPad. Read more »
How big an area would 1 billion televisions cover?
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People still buy televisions — a lot of them every year, though I wonder how much profit television makers actually make. Either way, about a billion TV sets were shipped in last four years. That’s one big honking screen. How big? Read more »
ABI thinks 2013 is the year developers go Android first, but I doubt it
When it comes to apps for mobile phones and tablets, Android owns one market while iOS owns the other. Yet few top-tier titles come to Android first. ABI research suggests that changes this year. Here’s why I don’t see that happening. Read more »
Three e-reading tools I wish existed
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A book club reading app that supports Kindle, and two other e-reading tools I’d love to see. Read more at paidContent »
iPad mini and other small tablets could outsell large slates in 2013
Apple’s iPad mini may be the right device at the right time. According to Display Search, shipments of smaller tablet screens far outnumbered those for large slates early this year. Read more »
Amazon scales up its Cloud Player music app for the iPad and iPad mini
Six months after debuting on the iPhone and iPod touch, Amazon’s streaming music and storage service has been modified for Apple’s tablets. Read more »
More evidence of tablets slowly killing the PC market
Naysayers may continue to ignore the trend, but tablets aren’t toys and the tablet market isn’t a fad, as 2012 shipments show. This year, tablets could surpass both desktops and laptops. Read more »
Disruption: It moves in mysterious ways
Google today released a new video showcasing the user interface of its Google Glass efforts. On the surface it might look like a hands free camera, but in reality it can open up a lot of new possibilities. Just like the iPad did before it. Read more »
Square introduces “Business in a Box” to set stores up with hardware
Square introduced on Wednesday a new combination of products it calls “Business in a Box,” including Square Readers, and iPad holder, a cash drawer and a receipt printer. The hardware combination will work together and allow businesses to easily get up and running. Read more »
Here’s the problem with book publishers’ discovery problem
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When it comes to discoverability and walled gardens, there’s a flip side. Read more at paidContent »
Wunderlist 2 arrives on Android tablets, with iPad version hot on its heels
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6Wunderkinder continues to churn out native versions of its task management app that are optimized for their respective platforms. The latest version, for Android tablets, includes widgets and inter-app sharing. Read more »
Two years and three CEOs later, publisher JV Bookish is ready to help users find their next book
The long-delayed Bookish, a website backed by Hachette, Penguin and Simon & Schuster and designed to promote book discovery and sell books, launched Monday night and is designed to be a one-stop shop for readers looking for their next book. Read more at paidContent »
Even as the iPad grows, Apple loses ground
Apple is the world’s biggest tablet maker. But despite increasing shipments by 48 percent, it’s continuing to lose ground to Samsung, Asus and others. Read more »
Whoa: Tablet shipments now more than half that of the PC
IDC has the market share breakdown of tablet sales by vendor, but the big story isn’t who is making more tablets. More important is the tablet impact on the PC market. Read more »
Podcast: Do you need a 128 GB iPad? Straight Talk vs. AT&T and Windows RT or Windows 8?
On this week’s call in podcast we tackle questions about the need for 128 GB of iPad storage, which smartphones have good cameras and the difference between Windows RT and Windows 8. Read more »
So that 128GB iPad? It’s real, and it’s available from Apple on Feb. 5
Apple framed the move to release its biggest-ever capacity mobile device as a way to help professionals in a variety of industries replace their traditional computers with the iPad. Read more »
Signs point to a 128 GB Apple iPad coming soon
Need an iPad with more storage? Code bits tucked in the latest iOS 6.1 beta software indicate Apple will bring support to 128 GB devices in the future. Read more »
Why a maturing Apple freaks us out, and why it shouldn’t
After five crazy years, it seems that Apple’s breakneck-growth might be settling into a more reasonable pattern. With years of strong growth still left in the mobile industry, it’s not exactly time to panic. Read more »
Want to run Windows through an HTML5 browser? Mikogo has you covered
The screen-sharing operation just released Mikogo Cloud Desktop, which lets businesses access full-fat Windows desktops on tablets, smartphones and other desktops. And yes, that can mean Windows 8 on an iPad. Read more »
Too soon to tell if it’s the beginning of the end for the Mac
One of the questions coming out of Apple’s earnings is whether the Mac is soon going to be following in its PC brethren’s footsteps. But it’s a bit too early to say. Read more »
Microsoft gets a (little) boost from Windows 8, but profits fall
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For its second quarter, Microsoft’s profits sagged to $6.4 billion or 76 cents per share from $6.6 billion (79 cents per share) compared to last year’s comparable period. Read more »
Apple posts biggest quarter yet: $54B in revenue, 47.8M iPhones sold
Wall Street was looking for between $52.01 billion and $59.55 billion in revenue, and earnings per share between $11.97 and $15.50. iPad sales also were at their highest ever, with more than 22 million sold. Read more »
Why TV everywhere will kill what’s best about TV
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There’s never been more video content to watch, or more ways of to watch it. That, says Jeremy Toeman, of Dijit Media, a big problem. In making TV infinite, we’ve lost its most potent benefit: escapism. Read more »
Sharp cuts iPad display production. Will iPad mini be the bigger hit?
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Is the iPad mini eating into iPad sales? It’s difficult to tell since Apple doesn’t break out sales of different models. But Sharp is cutting 9.7-inch display production, possibly due to lower demand for the iPad. Read more »
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 may have a secret weapon against iPad mini
Is the power of the digital pen mightier than the sword? We may find out next month, when Samsung is reportedly launching the Galaxy Note 8.0, an Android 4.2 tablet similar in size to Apple’s iPad mini. Read more »
Rolling Stone finally comes to iPad, with buy links to iTunes
Two years ago, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner criticized magazine publishers’ “premature” rush to iPad. Now, the 40-year-old music magazine is launching an iPad edition that includes a music purchase partnership with iTunes. Read more at paidContent »
