Apple expected to ship 6.5M iPads in first quarter, 40M in 2011
Shipments of the iPad, including the second-generation model to be announced by Apple today, are expected to be between 6 million and 6.5 million in the first quarter of 2011, on their way to 40 million for the calendar year. The numbers from DigiTimes on Wednesday show that Apple expects to significantly ramp up production [...]
New Apple MacBook Pro 2011: Review roundup
The new Apple MacBook Pro is out, and the reviews are in. Surprisingly, not every Apple fanboi is on-message: there’s grumbling about SSDs, graphics performance, price-gouging, and more. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers tease out the unexpected. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention Space Shuttle Discovery launch seen from [...]
Global CIO: iPad Versus Motorola Xoom: Apps Give Apple Huge Advantage
Last week, I wrote about how the massive gravitational attraction of Apple’s iPad tablet is sucking in huge numbers of enterprise applications that are giving Apple in aggregate an enormous advantage over future competitors from Android or RIM. Yes, those competitors are certainly working feverishly to persuade the makers of mainstream business apps to provide [...]
Apple iPhone designer ‘wants to return to Britain’ after £18m windfall
The British designer responsible for the influential looks of Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod is on the verge of an £18m windfall. Jonathan Ive is however said to be “at loggerheads” with the firm’s board, over his wish to spend more time away from Silicon Valley at his £2.5m Somerset manor house. The shaven-headed 44-year-old, [...]
Dirty Pool: Apple Trying To Steal Google’s Android 3.0 Thunder
New CEO Larry Page had better get used to this brand of dirty pool. Looking at the techrags today, I noticed Apple is taking a page out of Microsoft’s yellowing 90s-era playbook with leaks regarding the next iPad — the day before Google shows Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) at its huge press event at HQ. Nasty. [...]
New iPhone 4 TV Commercials
Let the advertising hype begin! The iPhone 4 will hit Verizon store shelves on February 10th and in preparation, both Verizon and Apple have launched TV commercials announcing the smartphone’s impending release. Verizon is building anticipation for its upcoming iPhone 4 release with a TV ad of ticking clocks and people anxiously waiting for time [...]
Can Apple Find More Hits Without its Tastemaker?
Shortly before the iPad tablet went on sale last year, Steven P. Jobs showed off Apple’s latest creation to a small group of journalists. One asked what consumer and market research Apple had done to guide the development of the new product. “None,” Mr. Jobs replied. “It isn’t the consumers’ job to know what they [...]
Verizon Expected to Announce It Will Offer iPhone
The iPhone is finally coming to Verizon Wireless. The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal on Friday. The move will for the first time let U.S. consumers choose the network that carries their [...]
Google preps Android newsstand as Apple makes trade-offs
Google is readying a newsstand for Android devices even as Apple is racing to make important concessions on its iTunes news subscription plans, multiple sources said Sunday night. The search engine is reportedly hoping to race Apple to a central periodical platform and would aggregate phone- and tablet-optimized magazine or newspaper apps in a central [...]
Apple Macbook Pro, iMac to be Updated Early 2011
Other than the obvious iPad 2 update that Apple will be rolling out of its sleeve, it is heard from Taiwan-based electronics market reporter Digitimes.com that they will also update their Macintosh line of computers. It has been only two months since the unveiling of the latest Macbook Air – a series of ultra-portable computers [...]
