purpleplanet note: The following article is reprinted from Mac Predictions.
As much as I love my iPad, and indeed all things Apple, I can’t help thinking that this is crazy-talk.
Sure, iPad is a great device for reading the odd e-mail and browsing the web, but when I hear people claiming it’s all they need on their business trips, it makes me wonder how much work they really do when they’re clocking up those frequent flyer miles.
iPad’s lack of a physical keyboard and Flash support are the two shortcomings most commonly cited as differentiating it from a laptop, but these are just the most superficial and obvious shortcomings (although I accept that for some, the absence of Flash is an advantage rather than a shortcoming). Read More
Tags: iPad, iTunes, OS, safari
Last week it was revealed that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp was working on a new subscription-based, iPad-centric, daily newspaper app called ‘The Daily’.
Murdoch told Fox Business:
News Corp. has spent the last three months assembling a newsroom that will soon be about 100 staffers strong. ‘The Daily’ will launch in beta mode sometime around Christmas, and will be introduced to the public on the iPad and other tablet devices in early 2011.
It is expected to cost 99 cents a week, or about $4.25 a month. It will come out — as the name suggests — seven days a week. The operation is currently working out of the 26th floor of the News Corp. Building on Sixth Avenue in a space that looks like a veritable construction zone. The staff’s permanent home will be on the ninth floor, and they’ll move down once it’s ready.
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Tags: app, internet, iPad, news, social, web
It has taken more than seven years, but at last Apple has brought The Beatles to the iTunes Store. If you are one of the rare people who is both a huge fan of the group, but somehow doesn’t actually own the music, you can buy the entire back-catalog at once for $150.
Ever since Apple started selling music downloads back in April 2003, there has been speculation as to when – if – The Beatles would be available on the store. The negotiations surely werent helped by legal troubles triggered by Apple Computer when it got into the music business and trod on the toes of The Beatles’ Apple Corp. Read More
Tags: iTunes, music
Apple is promising big news tomorrow, asking customers to “Check back here tomorrow for an exciting announcement from iTunes“.
The ad is currently running on all of the Apple home pages and is showing the time of the announcement for California, New York, London and Tokyo.
Often iTunes related news is available in the US first, later becoming available in the UK and elsewhere. This time, it looks like the news will definitely apply simultaneously the world over. Read More
Tags: cloud, internet, iTunes, music, social, web
