Mar 6, 2011 | General, Wireless
I am trying to add a bit more to my blog by adding funny titles like this. I hope you enjoy it! This blog is really about how many iPad 2?s are going to be shipped in the spring of this year and whether or not that will even be enough to meet the demand.
Apple is said that they will be shipping 12 million iPad 2?s this spring alone. Apple will also be able to get 6.5 million out before April. Most insiders think that around 21.5 million to 24 million will ship in the last half of 2011.
This is something watch to see how fast they actually sell out. It seems that Apple have been deliberately conservative to avoid any type of over stock on the product. In my perspective the iPad 2 will sell out and be difficult to find. With most new tech toys it is usually really hard to get it after the first day usually. Let?s hope Apple steps up to the plate and answers if we have any issues with supply of the iPad 2.
Feb 23, 2011 | Computer technology, Entertainment, General, Wireless
It has been reported that the Apple is holdings it?s always anticipated event on March 2nd of this year. Many sources have stated that the company will be unveiling the first look at the iPad 2. The thoughts on the iPad 2 are simple, it will be thinner than the iPad 1, and it will have an improved display and will also have a front facing camera for face to face video chat. It is also said that the 2 will be running on a Qualcomm multimode chip with GSM and CDMA based network support around the entire world.
This show will be a very big deal for Apple. With competition finally hitting the tablet market we will be seeing Apple trying to show off how great the iPad can really be. Every other tablet is running the Honeycomb version of Google?s Android mobile OS. And with nearly 25 million iPads sold since its inception last spring will the iPad 2 be able to reach the same plateau with all of this new competition? As I always say, time will tell.
Feb 21, 2011 | Computer technology, Entertainment, General, Wireless
Some people have been awaiting the arrival of the Motorola Xoom, a possible alternative to the iPad. Well it looks like those people who wanted the Xoom so bad will have to wait for one little thing. Well maybe it?s actually a big thing. It will ship on February 24th with NO flash support. If you look above at the Verizon sheet for the Xoom in very small print you will see * Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011. So you won?t have to wait very long to get flash support but shouldn?t the Xoom had been prepared for this? This was supposed to slay the iPad and be its first real competition. Yet it won?t have flash at launch. So maybe the only positive thing to come of this is that people using the Xoom won?t have to worry about annoying flash ads popping up while surfing the web.
Feb 20, 2011 | Computer technology, General, internet
Google announced that it is rolling out a new tool for you to import your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks.
Delicious is a bookmarking website to store your bookmarks online. This allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks anywhere that you go. You can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.
This importer takes your login credentials and imports all your bookmarks while it preserves your labels and tags. It is very interesting on the timing of this announcement as it looks like Yahoo is going to sell Delicious.
Feb 19, 2011 | Computer technology, Entertainment, General, internet, Wireless
Apple is considering changing its 15 minute purchase windows for people to buy successive apps or purchase in-app items with only one password sign-in. They are considering this because as of right now it holds your password in place they want to change that in efforts to stop unwanted app purchases.
Multiple companies are asking that Apple make it standard that any in-app purchases requiring a password for each individual purchase. So at the moment you only have to sign in once to buy apps and if you buy another app within 15 minutes you don?t need to put a password in for it. This problem stems from a lot issues with children buying in game items that are aimed at children and with those orders have reached in the thousands of dollars purchased.
With the fact that the developers of these games are also behind the consumers on this to change the application purchasing system, well I think Apple may have to look long and hard on doing this change in there next OS update.
Feb 16, 2011 | Computer technology, Entertainment, General, internet, Software, Wireless
Apple has announced a new in-app subscription charge to the companies that have applications on the itunes market that offer subscriptions through the app via your iPad or through your iPhone and iPod touch. So for example say you have an iPad and found the Netflix app while searching on your iPad for new apps but don?t have a subscription set up for this service. Well if you sign up through the application on your iPad, apple wants to take 30% of that application subscription. It?s always been the case that no matter how a person subscribes to a service the company who created the service would keep it.
So is this a good idea? It could be to make apple richer. But what does that mean for the customer? Well hopefully the companies that have apps for the Apple brands find ways to get customers to subscribe for their service outside of the itunes store, like via the web. But if there is still a massive influx of people subscribing on the App store will it force companies to sit there and take the hit or just leave the app store all together. Now you could pose the argument to me that the companies could just charge a bit more on the app store to make up the difference in lost profit. Well I am sorry to shoot you down but Apple has asked that the subscriptions be the same deals as you could get outside of the app store. So if you paying 9.99 a month for Netflix, it won?t be a different charge if you signed up in the app store.
Now the final piece to the puzzle that makes this so grand is competition. The Android marketplace is also going to be releasing a subscription service. Allegedly it will be a 10% charge versus Apple?s 30%. This could mean companies could jump over to Android and leave Apple behind. Apple does still have a strong hold on the market share however Androids being clawing up the ranks. Android is making a smart move by undercutting Apple here. Apple is setting a precedent with these charges and Android is following just a very small rate. With this, Android could see an increase in market share if companies decide that doing subscription services through Apple just isn?t work the money they would have to pay out to them. So what do you think? Is this a good idea or bad idea? I personally am not sure yet.
