USA Today review of the iPad.
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iPad shipments for those who bought it will start on April 3, 2010. Basically I created this post to create more interest for those soon to be buyer of this gadget and I'm one of them. Yes, I'm still waiting for it to be available here in Singapore.
The photo application of the iPad has a lot of feature. You can also connect your camera or micro card sd using the iPad camera connection kit that's available in apple store. You can even use the iPad as a photo frame.
See the video for more detailed explanation. I'm truly amaze how cool the display is.
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Analysts and Techies are predicting the sales performance of the iPad. Estimates are based on the past performance of other Apple devices. The iPad was designed to surf the web, read e-books and news papers.
Apple opens the pre-order last week. It reach 91,000 pre-order after 6-hours.
A Gartner research analys bets that Apple's device iPad will boost sales in a big way. "The iPad isn't a tablet in the traditional sense," said Gartner analyst George Shiffler. "It's a rethink of the whole tablet concept."
What Shiffler called traditional tablets -- such as those used in medical, sales and delivery applications -- will account for just 2.5 million of the 10.5 million tablet total for the year. "Tablets have languished. They found a niche in certain areas, but they have really never taken off," noted Shiffler.
Here are some of the sales performance of notable devices from 2001 - 2009. In which Analysts and Techies based their insights.
Apple iPod was launched November 2001 and it took 91 weeks to sell one million.
T-mobile G1 was launched October 2008 and it took 23 weeks to sell one million.
HTC Magic launched April 2009. 15 weeks to reach one million sales.
Apple iPhone launched June 2007 and it took 11 weeks to reach one million sales.
Apple iPhone 3GS launched June 2009 and it reach one million sales in 3 Days.
From the trend above, analysts believes that the iPad will reach a sales in big way.
Brian Marshall, a financial analyst with BroadPoint AmTech, said today that his conservative estimate for this earnings model is just 2.2 million iPads for the calendar year."But I think Apple will actually sell about 7 million for the year," he said today.
In a consumers stand point, I think and I believe that iPad will surely hits a million sales this year. Apple remains a big contributors and trend setters of this decade.
source: computerworld.com
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iPad pre order: 91,000 Apple iPad sold in first six hours
Battle between HP and Apple iPad is heating up. I saw this news from sfgate.com. iPad is not yet out in the market but it really attracts attention from other big company.
HP gets Slate ready to battle iPad
by Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writer
While Apple's iPad faces an onrushing sea of competition when it hits the market April 3, one of the most formidable and intriguing challenges comes from Apple's neighbor, computer heavyweight Hewlett-Packard.
HP, which is planning to release its Slate this year, has been ramping up the marketing for its coming tablet and appears ready to go toe to toe with Apple CEO Steve Jobs' latest creation. In one slick Apple-esque video that appeared just after Apple began its iPad commercial campaign, HP showed off the Slate performing multitouch browsing of Web pages, newspaper sites and maps. Phil McKinney, chief technology officer of HP's personal systems group, has also been making the rounds touting the Slate as a powerful media device.
"We predict users are looking for that consolidated device, that one device they can use for the ultimate content consumption experience," McKinney said in a recent video interview. "The feedback that we got from our customer base is: I want to be able to browse, I want to able to watch movies, I want to be able to listen to my music, I want to read magazines and do books. So the Slate device can give you not only reading capabilities but also give you that rich media."
While the devices share some physical similarities, they are a study in contrasts in technological approaches to the tablet. While Apple and many other rivals are coming at the market using mobile operating systems paired with smart phone processors, the HP Slate takes a computer-based approach: The device will run Windows 7 with an Intel processor, presumably an Atom, which is often used in netbooks. The question boils down to whether a tablet is an oversized smart phone or a slimmed down computer.
"In some ways, Windows and Intel is a safe bet," said analyst Bob O'Donnell of IDC. "You have things that are important for people like Adobe Flash, and a lot of other things that people are used to. The question is how do people use them: like a big smart phone or a totally different way. That remains to be seen."
O'Donnell said the stakes won't be high initially but will grow over time. IDC is predicting that just 6 million tablets will be sold this year, with 2 out of every 3 an iPad. Meanwhile, netbook sales are expected to reach 39 million this year and 45 million in 2011.
Still, HP has plenty to prove in the tablet market. While it has led the world in PC sales, it recorded just $25 million in handheld sales in the most recent quarter. Apple, by comparison, clocked $5.6 billion in iPhone revenue in the most recent quarter.
Jayson Noland, a financial analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co., said HP was late to the netbook game and hasn't done anything with its iPaq line of smart phones. But he says the company has a good reputation in computers and has developed its own touch software called TouchSmart, which he said will help HP compete in this space.
"Tablets are more like PCs than cell phones," he said. "I think HP's heritage here lends itself well to a tablet device. This is an opportunity for HP. They haven't shown they can execute in the handset PDA world yet."
HP played up some of the benefits of its computer approach with a video showing how the slate will run Adobe Flash, the Web technology that powers 75 percent of online video. That's sure to be key factor in its face-off with the iPad, which won't support Flash
Read more: sfgate.com
I recently stumble upon this iPad commercial created by a student in youtube and wanted to share it to you. It's really funny and it will show some of the future capabilities of this iPad. Check it out here.
Some people say that this is just a giant iPhone but 90,000 people are already pre-order this device. iPad will be one of the top device this year.
Readers might be interested of this article.
iPad pre order: 91,000 Apple iPad sold in first six hours
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO talks for the first time regarding his life saving liver transplant in Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He joins Arnold Schwarzenegger in this event. In which they unveil a new legislative effort to greatly expand the number of California organ donors.
"I was almost one of the ones that died waiting for a liver in California last year," said Jobs
Here is the video of his talk.
By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb
Customers may be pre-ordering Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)'s new iPad devices by the hundreds of thousands, but when they press the "On" button on April 3, they might be disappointed at the lack of content.
Apple is still scrambling to make last-minute deals with television, newspaper, magazine, and textbook content providers to ensure that iPad customers can make the most of their new devices, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The biggest hurdle for Apple in lining up content for the iPad seems to be concerns among potential partners about how a deal that gets them on the iPad might impact existing revenue streams.
For instance, The Wall Street Journal wrote, Apple has delayed a plan to offer TV subscriptions for the iPad because of lack of interest from media companies, and instead may drop the price it charges for TV shows through its iTunes store to 99 cents, compared to the $1.99 and $2.99 price tag for such shows through iTunes. The media companies, however, are concerned such a price cut could hurt their cable and satellite business.
As for streaming television videos over the iPad,The Wall Street Journal said licensing issues on the broadcast side and technical issues on the iPad side could prevent that option.
Meanwhile, many television and digital print publishers make heavy use of Adobe Systems (NSDQ:ADBE)' Flash video technology is not supported on the iPad.
However, iPad users should have access to a large library of digital books, with publishers expecting to have nearly all the digital titles they offer for the Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook available for the new Apple device.
Potential iPad customers have been able to place orders since March 12, and can have them shipped or pick them up at a local Apple store.
The iPad 3G models, which also come with Wi-Fi, are slated for launch in late April and are priced at $629 for 16 GB of storage and $829 for 64 GB. For the Wi-Fi only iPads, prices range from $499 for 16 GB and $699 for 64 GB.
iPad customers can purchase 3G data plans on a monthly basis and cancel at any time. Customers will have the option of a $14.99 monthly plan that includes up to 250 megabytes of wireless data, or a $29.99 monthly plan that includes unlimited data.
source: ChannelWeb
By John Davison, GamePro
Though all iPhone games will run just fine on the iPad when it launches on April 3, there are very few iPad-specific titles confirmed yet. Ngmoco CEO Neil Young filled us in on his company's plans to rectify that at the Game Developers Conference last week.
When quizzed about iPad-specific versions of games at or around the iPad's April 3 launch, Ngmoco CEO Neil Young revealed that, "between us and (recently acquired iPhone studio) Freeverse, we will have about six or so iPad titles around the launch." He went on to confirm that the highly anticipated Freeverse-developed space trading title Warp Gate (see it in our Under the Radar Games feature here) "looks gorgeous" on the iPad, before going on to speculate on other titles. "We might do Dropship," he mused, regarding one of the first games that his company released on the iPhone. "That game hadn't performed as well as we'd hoped and it was really easy to do, plus it will look great on the larger screen."
Though Freeverse has built some real buzz around Warp Gate thanks to its ambitious scope, the company is actually best known for evergreen casual game titles like Flick Fishing, Flick Bowling, and Skee Ball. So don't be surprised if that's the kind of thing we see in the new-look App store in a couple of weeks.
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Apple's latest tablet computer, the iPad, may just be what magazine publishers need to boost declining circulation.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations said Tuesday that it has changed its definition of a digital magazine to accommodate the new class of tablet-style devices. The new rules allow publishers to count paid digital subscriptions as part of a magazine's overall circulation as long as all the same editorial and advertising material is included.
The new definition would mean that publishers can now can custom design their articles and photo spreads for Apple's iPad, which goes on sale April 3. Without the rule change, they could only count digital editions that appear exactly the way they do in print.
Traditionally, magazine publishers charge for ads based on the size of their so-called rate base, the circulation they guarantee to advertisers. Few consumer magazines or newspapers have also failed in getting large numbers of readers to pay for access to Web sites.
Subscriptions on many existing e-readers, such as Amazon Inc.'s Kindle, don't count because those editions don't carry ads. But the iPad will have a backlit screen that can carry color advertising alongside articles, opening up another potential revenue stream.
GQ's iPhone app, which meets the auditors' new guidelines, may provide the best barometer. About 6,800 people downloaded the first issue for US$2.99, according to company figures - not a significant rate compared with the magazine's overall circulation of just under 900,000. But it's still a start, nonetheless.
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New York: iPad pre order: 91,000 Apple iPad sold in first six hours. Apple and Steve Jobs must be the happiest on the earth today. After a spectacular pre order opening for Apple’s iPad tablet yesterday, they are getting great response from gadget lovers.
Notwithstanding speculations and attacks from competitors, the company sold ninety-one thousand ipads in the first hour of pre order opening yesterday.
An HP advertisement recently attack Apple iPad for the fact that it will not support flash.
Only alarms will help you book one of the first iPads from Apple. Apple is starting to collect pre-orders for its newly introduced tablet iPad at early morning on Friday, exactly at 05:30 a.m. Hence, set two or three alarms and wake up early to grab one of the first products from Apple.
Read more at khabrein.info
Giant book retailer, Barnes & Noble will create an e-book reader app for the iPad and they intend to publish the app by April 3 which is the launch date of iPad to the market.
The B&N e-book reader app will have access to the B&N eBookstore. This is a good strategy of B&N since they have existing eBook reader which is the Nook. They will have a good coverage and e-book industry is expected to explode into a multibillion-dollar business.
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By David Coursey
What will HP's Slate Tablet have that Apple's iPad won't? It's Adobe Flash, a key Internet technology that HP is touting as the key difference between the two platforms. And, HP is right, though how Flash support will translate into sales remains to be seen.
While Apple has its App Store to provide applications for iPad users and iTunes for content, Flash gives HP users access to Web content and apps that iPad users can only dream of. Adobe's AIR provides a framework for developing applications for the HP Slate tablet and other devices that iPad also will not support.
HP has posted two new videos that use Flash and AIR support to take aim at the iPad ahead of its April 3 release.
The videos, demonstrating HP's likewise forthcoming (but not-as-soon) tablet, show how the Slate "will access the full web, and just a part of it," according to Adobe's Alan Tam, who does a four-minute demonstration of Adobe Flash and AIR running on the Slate in one of the videos.
HP introduced the Windows 7-based Slate in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, but has not announced a ship date besides "mid-2010." The device, to be priced "below $500" was considered underwhelming at the time of its introduction.
Read More: pcworld.com
Apple release it's first iPad TV Commercial at the OSCAR 2010. Here is the video.
The look and feel looks good. But still it's just a bigger iPOD TOUCH and iPHONE.
The new device will fly off shelves, say some analysts; others think sales will build slowly
By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld - Apple's iPad will fly out of stores when it goes on sale in four weeks, and will build momentum through the back-to-school and into the holiday selling seasons, analysts said today.
"I expect a surge going out the door," said Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research. "There's a group of Apple advocates that will queue up no matter what. Apple has the most effective branding in the industry, and these people think of themselves as acolytes, they do think of themselves as the 'Mac' in Apple's 'I'm a Mac' ads."
On Friday, Apple announced that the iPad will go on sale April 3, and that it would begin taking pre-orders for the device, which is priced starting at $499, on March 12.
That news had been preceded by reports citing Peter Misek, an analyst with Canaccord Adams, who said iPad production problems would limit the number of units available at launch to just 300,000, considerably less than the 1 million many had anticipated.
Wall Street analyst Brian Marshall of BroadPoint AmTech leaned toward inventory shortages as well, and said that such news might pressure consumers to line up for Apple's new device. "They're definitely going to sell out in a matter of hours," he said of the iPad's debut. Read Full Stroy
Reports of production problems apparently overcome, the Wi-Fi-only version of the Mac maker's touchscreen tablet will ship first.
By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
Consumers will get to cast their votes on Apple's iPad on April 3 when the Wi-Fi-only version of the tablet computer is scheduled to be available, a few days late.
Observers from Silicon Valley to Wall Street are fawning over the promise of the device, which they hope will be a game changer and not just another tablet PC.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has already weighed in on the iPad, saying "It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, "Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it."
The first purchasers of the device won't be Apple's captive AT&T subscribers, but anyone with easy access to Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi + 3G models of the iPad will be available in late April, according to Apple. U.S. customers may place their orders beginning on March 12 at Apple's online store or reserve a Wi-Fi model at an Apple store.
The iPad has many of the popular features of Apple's iPhone, offered exclusively in the U.S. by AT&T, and additional features that are still untested. Read Full Story
Here is the video from Sophoslab. Take note this one. It's a SCAM and don't dare to try it.
Future look, feel, and functionality of digital magazines in limbo
By Daniel Ionescu PCWorld
Print publications are lining up to offer digital interactive versions of their wares on Apple's iPad and other tablet-shaped readers — but there is a problem. Many of the coolest aspects of a digital version of static print magazines include multimedia and interactive content. Because Apple's iPad doesn't support Adobe Flash and Air multimedia technology, many publishers are wrestling with how to program their digital content for multiple platforms — be it Apple's iPad, HP's Windows based Slate tablet, or tablets based on the Android operating system.
Apple has yet to reach a consensus with Adobe over Flash and Air on the iPad. This puts publishers in limbo over the future look, feel, and functionality of digital magazines. With several tablets coming this year, publishers won't be able to code once and publish anywhere because Apple isn't going to allow Flash on iPads and iPhones any time soon.
The iPad has been heralded as a savior for the declining sales of magazines, with publishers revving up for the launch of the Apple tablet. But Conde Nast, which has titles such as Wired and GQ, has to decide whether to leave Adobe's Flash platform behind and embrace Apple's platform. Read More at msnbc.msn.com
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
An application from the news organization will incorporate a paid subscription model for putting content on mobile devices.
The Associated Press has unveiled plans to set up a division that would help the news cooperative and member newspapers and broadcasters sell digital content for use on a new generation of electronic readers, and tablet PCs such as the Apple iPad.
In a keynote speech Friday before the Colorado Press Association, Tom Curley, president and chief executive of the AP, said the new business unit would be called the AP Gateway and would become "the launching pad for new products and services from AP and other interested news publishers."
Curley told the CPA convention in Denver that the first Gateway application would be used to deliver news to the iPad, which Apple plans to release in late March. The application would incorporate a paid subscription model and would be open to AP members.
"Beyond that, we expect to offer our content partners a variety of ways to take their content to market, both individually and collectively, directly and indirectly, taking advantage of new business models, including the wide variety of pay-model services now under development," Curley said, according to a transcript of his speech posted by PaidContent.org.
In launching Gateway, the non-profit is offering members a way to take advantage of the "splintering" of the Internet into many channels for news distribution created by the expected growth in the use of new Internet-connected devices, such as smartphones, Curley said. Quoting Forrester Research, the AP CEO said that while 80% of the U.S. population look to get their news for free, "there is a slice of that remaining 20% who will pay for it under the right circumstances."
"Just how big a slice that becomes will depend on how creative and responsive we producers are," Curley said.
The news executive listed three ways to make money in digital media, syndication licensing, advertising, and subscriptions; and said Gateway can enhance all three by tagging, tracking and enabling new business opportunities. Read More at InformationWeek.com
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