MacBook Touch iTablet
Oppenheimer released their report on the rumored Apple Tablet predicting the size and functionality of the potential game changer. It also suggested the pricing and sales structure for publishers and the app store.
You can download it here (right click save as).
Thank you Kevin Rose for this.
I am not a MacBook owner so I don’t pretend to know how much of a nuisance transporting the cords and adapters are. However, I can tell you that transporting the adapter for my Vaio notebook is quite an affair. Between rigging up the cords to stay put around the adapter and then untangling the mess that unwinded in my bag, it becomes quite a process. I don’t want to draw any conclusions too quickly, but I can’t imagine the process is too much different for those who wield a Mac.
In just 24 hours, the community over at Quirky.com has developed a solution to the cord management for Mac adapters in both the 60W and 85W varieties – called the PowerCurl.
The PowerCurl fits around the adapter box and includes a clip to keep the cord tight and manageable. The supersweet design of the PowerCurl also keeps the adapter elevated to keep the unit from overheating. Orange, sexy, and practical, and only $9.99 the PowerCurl is affordable as well.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is now available for pre-order. It will be shiipping this Friday August 28, 2009. One of the biggest advantages is that it frees up 7 Gigs for disk space and performs faster. The reason being is that Apple decided to toss out support for PowerPC chips and go solely on Intel (Universal Binary).
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
The price is only $29 for an upgrade? Much more reasonable than the headaches and price you get from Microsoft Upgrades.
As everyone in the tech world knows, the FCC is poking into why exactly Apple decided to reject the Google Voice application from the App Store. The investigation has dragged in Google and AT&T as well, with the FCC asking some hard questions about what exactly happened. Today, all three companies delivered their responses. I strongly urge you to read their responses via TechCrunch, because of the flurry of commentary that’s popped up on the web since the release, it’s my opinion that TechCrunch has gotten to the heart of the matter in Michael Arrington’s unique style.
Here is TechCrunch’s commentary on AT&T’s response, as well as the full text of the AT&T letter.
Here is TechCrunch’s commentary on Apple’s response, as well as the full text of the Apple letter.
Here is TechCrunch’s commentary on Google’s response, as well as Google’s response.
Most importantly (and if you want to skip over the previous to get to the meat of the matter), here is Michael Arrington’s insights into Apple’s distorted reality as evidenced in their letter. Even someone like myself, who writes about gadgets out of love and as a distinctly part time hobby could see issues with Apple’s responses.
Mr. Arrington points out something that didn’t even occur to me until I read his post – aside from the email app and the phone, most of what I do with my iPhone does indeed revolve around Google-provided services. I use Safari to access Google Reader. I use third party apps that get me to POI’s via Google’s mapping app. I use Google’s mapping app as a poor man’s GPS when I am too lazy to fire up my Mio. I’ve already swapped out Apple’s Contacts and To-Do apps with an app that sync Google Calendar to my iPhone (and, god willing, will allow Tasks syncing in the near future). As Google improves the Safari version of gMail, I’ll probably start moving over to using that more than I use the Apple mail client, especially because Apple seems incapable of providing a universal inbox a la the Palm Pre. He’s absolutely right that the iPhone is a very pretty shell around a bunch of Google services, with Google Voice supplanting yet more iPhone functionality.
Dammit I never should have sold my Google stock. At this rate, AT&T will be a dumb (albeit expensive) pipe to an Apple manufactured platform that provides a pretty (non-Android) version of the Google OS.
Apple will mark its place on the online world and devices with the first ever live concert streamed to the iPhone by the electronica band Underworld. You can watch the live iPhone streaming at iphone.akamai.com or underworldlive.com. You can catch the live streaming and free show at 9pm PT.
Apple To Stream First Live Concert on iPhone Tonight with Underworld
This break through event coincides with Apple’s release of its own HTTP streaming protocol that uses adaptive bitrates to deliver continuous and smooth stream in various network congestion. Tonight’s concert will test.
Underworld -- Born Slippy
Underworld’s bandmembers Karl Hyde and Rick Smith are huge Apple fans and recently released their entire catalog on iTunes. Apple is using partners at Inlet Technologies and Akamai to power tonight’s show.
The Apple Store in Palo Alto unveils new Flying Apps screen that is quite eye catchy. It is amazing to watch and mesmerizes you for a bit. The video show cases apps flying pass a giant iPhone.
NetFlix Streaming iPhone App
Let’s talk about an amazing brand called Netflix. It has been able to stay relevant being a completely online movie delivery service even while Blockbuster has the straddle strategy (online and brick and morter). We think that Netflix’s success has a lot to do with the abundant LongTail collection of niche films as well as popular ones. In addition, they were really the first company to deliver movies through the mail and online.
A search for Blockbuster’s iPhone app yielded no results on the iTunes App Store at the moment.
There is now a rumor that Netflix Watch Instantly streaming service would be available on Apple’s App Store as well as available on the Nintendo Wii.
This is something I’m sure a lot of Netflix subscribers would love to have. The biggest question is if AT&T would allow such bandwidth utilization of streaming video on their 3G network. Afterall, they seem to have an unofficial hand in dictacting Apple approval of iPhone apps that competes with their core business like Google Voice. Ironically though, AT&T and Apple do allow the MLB At Bat app to stream video over the network. Let’s not forget the iPhone also comes with a YouTube player that can stream both on 3G and Wi-Fi. According to AT&T, it doesn’t want all this video streaming to further clog its pipes, which could be the reason why the rumored Hulu app is not released yet.
The next question would be if Apple themselves would allow such a service to compete with its movie downloads. Then again, Apple does offer radio streaming apps like Last.FM and Pandora which theoretically competes with its iTunes Music Downloads. Apple’s app approval still seems unpredictable despite its disclosure.
Via TechCrunch
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