Steve Jobs just shared with the world what is coming with the latest iPhone OS version 4.0. In a media presentation lasting about 1 hour, a couple of the simply amazing features were demonstrated by Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall. Really amazing features like, ahem, being able to set a wallpaper for your home screen. Yes, for the first time ever, iPhone users will soon be able to customize the background of their home screen. I’m sure they…
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iPad Launch Day
Today is the Apple iPad launch day. I thought I would write a few words about this much-raved-about product. Personally, I still don’t see why and how this tablet should be so revolutionary. Maybe it is the user experience that makes the difference. Or perhaps it is the magic of Apple’s marketing. All the initial reviews pouring out now are saying lots of wonderful things about the iPad (though I’m sure Apple chose carefully where to send the early iPads)….
iPad – iDisappointed
I fail to be wowed by Steve Jobs latest product announcement, the all new iPad, which is supposedly so revolutionary that it creates a new product category. I guess it still does deserve its own product category, but it is nowhere so revolutionary that the media had hyped it out to be. The name itself doesn’t even sound interesting. In fact, I’m already reading a bunch of jokes about the name even before I finished watching Steve Job’s keynote video.
The Long Awaited Apple Tablet
In less than 24 hours, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple is expected to unveil a new hardware product category at their special Media Event. It’ll be a product announcement so major that it is being compared to the likes if the iPhone launch in 2007 and Macintoshes moving to Intel processors in 2005. We’re talking about a new product category rather than simply another new product, and it has been reported that Steve Jobs was heard…
Apple Wins Judgement Against Mac Cloner Pystar
Apple has won a decisive victory over Pystar, the clone computer maker which sells Mac OS X preloaded on non-Apple hardware. The summary judgement won by Apple ruled that Pystar had violated copyright laws and violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It sounds like the road is ending for Pystar. It sounds like this should be the obvious outcome, but I think many of us are simply shocked at Pystar’s vigorous attacks against Apple and wondered if they…
Apple Magic Mouse Review
The new Apple Magic Mouse announced earlier in October has started shipping. It’s a pretty, clean, smooth, button-less and seamless mouse just like the Mighty Mouse it replaces. It is even more so, because there’s not even the tiny scroll ball anymore from the Mighty Mouse. The Magic Mouse looks like just a piece of curved acrylic topped white plastic, and an aluminum bottom. It’s possible that people unfamiliar with Apple’s mice might not believe that this device actually functions…
First Look at the Magic Mouse
The all new Apple Magic Mouse. No buttons. No wheels. But it clicks, right clicks, scrolls, even in 360 degrees and with kinetic effect.
The Plastic MacBook Lives On
Even though Apple has progressively upgraded all its MacBooks to aluminum unibody designs and rebranded them MacBook Pros, the white plastic wasn’t expected to die just yet. This has been reaffirmed by it’s latest upgrade in yesterday’s surprise product announcement from Apple. The plastic MacBook now features a polycarbonate unibody design, LED backlight screen, glass multitouch trackpad and a built-in battery pushing battery life to 7 hours.
Apple Launches New iPods
At Apple’s special media event yesterday, Apple announced the immediate availability of entirely refreshed family of iPod devices. The new generation of iPod nano received the biggest upgrade, which includes a new video camera, FM radio tuner with live pausing (think Hub Station) and iTunes tagging capability. My 4th generation iPod Nano has become feature-obsolete.
Apple iTunes vs Nokia Music
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic I got last weekend enabled me to try out Nokia’s Comes with Music for the first time, and also to explore more of the Nokia Music Store than I did before. I’m also quite familiar with Apple’s iTunes Store, which does a lot more than selling music. The two stores are used primarily to support and push the sales of products from their respective companies. What do I think of the two stores?