Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
Microcenter’s purchasing system indicates that four new Apple notebook configurations will be announced shortly. […] The four SKUs which show up […] are likely to correspond to new Macbook or Macbook Pro models range anywhere from $1,799 to $2,299 which fall neatly in line with Apple’s existing pricing of notebooks. More: continued here
Good start for the iPad apparently as according to the first official sales numbers released this morning, Apple managed to sell over 300,000 units on launch day. There is more to it actually as these first iPad users also downloaded over a million apps and 250,000 iBooks. More: continued here
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad he was quick to shake his finger in the nose of the other devices out there attempting to fill the gap between cell phone and full-sized laptop, and in particular those market-dominating netbooks. More: continued here
Apple’s very hyped entry in the eBook business, in the form of its iPad iBooks app, is now live in the App Store.As announced, iBooks allows you to access, buy and read eBooks from Apple’s newly put together library; with the addition of some interesting features.Very conveniently, every iBook comes with a free sample consisting…
Combine basic-but-essential work tools with iWork, an improved browser, e-mail, iPod, and photo applications, a well-executed e-Book platform with iBooks, and throw in thousands of downloadable apps and games, and package it all in a gorgeous, slim slate with a beautiful 9.7-inch touch screen, you have yourself a winner. More: continued here
If Steve Jobs has seen the future then the future is not a library but a digital bookshelf from which one purchases an e-book and reads it on a 9.56-inch by 7.47-inch multi-touch screen. But, as exciting as the iPad is, there’s something libraries have going for them that gives them an edge… More: continued…
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There are a whole bunch of students working at AppAdvice, including myself, and if there is one thing we definitely all agree on about the iPad, it is that it should be a damn neat device for college.Indeed, not only it will spare you the burden of carrying heavy books and fighting with printouts, but…
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We now know that OmniGraffle has already been submitted and approved by Apple and will be available in the App Store on April 3rd…Today we found out that The Gutenberg Project catelog will be featured in the iBookstore for free.AppAdvice.com and Glovapps have teamed up to bring you the chance to win one of eight…
If Amazon wasn’t freaking out about the iPad before, they should be now. App Advice has been shown the iBookstore and I can confirm that pricing on the iPad is going to be extremely comparable to what is already being offered on the Kindle. Check out the video and AppAdvice.com today for more info.Digg has…
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The great master of kid’s storybook rhymes has TWO books in the App Store’s Top 25 list, The Cat in the Hat and Dr. Seuss’s ABC. Do the iPhone versions live up to the original books, or perhaps even make them better? More: continued here
Apple wanted publishers to discount bestsellers, so its $12.99-to-$14.99 range is merely a ceiling, according to people familiar with talks with publishers. More: continued here
in advance of the iPad pill computer’s arrival in six to eight weeks, publishers have positioned 27 thousand titles within the iTunes App store’s Books part… extra: continued here
Amazon said: You still can’t buy Macmillan books from Amazon, though, and now the book publishing giant has fired back with full-page ads in The New York Times and Publishers Marketplace. More: continued here
When Apple was demoing its new iBooks application for the iPad today during their keynote address, I just kept thinking to myself: this simply must have been designed by Delicious Monster, the shop behind the brilliant Mac app Delicious Library. More: continued here
Apple is not using Intel hardware in its forthcoming tablet, says an analyst with Northeast Securities. Ashok Kumar claims to have learned the information from Apple’s design manufacturing partners, who have discounted notions that the tablet might run an Intel Atom processor. Atom chips are frequently used in sub-notebook devices such as netbooks…. More: continued…
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