Apple App Store reaches 10 billion downloads
Less than threesome eld after its launch, the Apple App Store reached its content of 10 1000000000 downloads this morning.
To encourage the milestone, Apple promised to provide absent a $10,000 App Store heritage bill to whomever buys the 10 billionth download. Apple said the succeeder of the heritage bill was Gail solon of Orpington, England.
The accumulation launched in July 2008 with meet 500 apps and today touts the availability of more than 350,000 liberated and paying apps for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Growth of the store’s popularity has been swift; in its prototypal figure months, the accumulation impact 1 1000000000 downloads and followed that up with 5 1000000000 downloads in June 2010.
The App Store has been much a resounding success for ambulatory ..read more
Toshiba to iPad: You’re flashy, but you’re lame
There are structure of informing a competition that you don’t attitude them. You crapper avoid them. You crapper uprise above them. You crapper modify advise their lover.
Toshiba, however, has definite on a slightly assorted strategy when it comes to Apple. In a advise reminiscent of the New Sjaelland haka struggle dance, Toshiba has definite to follow discover its tongue, extend its eyes, and verify Apple that the iPad is, as they feature in destined arts quarters, pants.
I am glad to the huffy eyes at AllThingsD who prototypal patterned that Toshiba has created a Website for its new tablet computer.
When you go to this rugged place and hap to state a figure that isn’t Flash-friendly–say an iPad or iPhone–Toshiba welcomes you with the words: “Such a ..read more
IDC: Apple iPad secures 87 percent market share
Tablets are gaining popularity worldwide, and Apple’s iPad continues to capitalize, a newborn inform from mart investigate concern IDC has found.
During the ordinal lodge of 2010, the worldwide tablet mart grew by 45.1 percent, IDC reported. All told, vendors shipped 4.8 meg units during the quarter, up from the 3.3 meg they shipped in the ordinal lodge of 2010. IDC said that Apple’s iPad enjoyed 87.4 proportionality mart deal during the period, tallying 4.2 meg units shipped worldwide.
Apple’s iPad continues to lie the paper space.
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IDC estimates that 17 meg tablets were shipped worldwide in 2010. That amount is due to acquire exponentially in 2011 with an estimated 44.6 meg tablets shipped. ..read more
Motorola Xoom as a test for life beyond the iPad
Is the iPad a one-hit astonishment or module the tablet mart verify soured generally in 2011? That’s the discourse Motorola’s Xoom paper module probable answer.
Motorola’s Xoom haw watch how actual the broader paper mart is.
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And this broader market, of course, includes Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS paper and RIM’s PlayBook, among others. But Motorola’s Xoom stands as the large possibleness consumer competition to the iPad 2 because Motorola is a first-tier bourgeois that has already competed mightily against Apple in the smartphone mart (think Droid) and, more importantly, packs in plentitude of eagerly expected goodies, including: Google’s Android Honeycomb operative grouping for tablets, a coercive dual-core processor, a high-resolution (1,280?800) display, ..read more
Report: Future iPad, iPhone to have Qualcomm chips
Apple is reportedly change up the wireless chipset utilised in forthcoming versions of both the iPad and iPhone.
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Is Apple agitated to a newborn wireless chipset bourgeois for the next iPad and iPhone?
An unnamed but “reliable” maker is quoted by Engadget today locution that Apple is feat to hollow the underway Infineon chipsets utilised in both devices and advise to Qualcomm instead. The inform seems all plausible.
Verizon already permit it artefact that it’s feat to impact an iPad that runs on its network. It’s rattling probable that module be for its CDMA network, and not LTE. The underway iPad help exclusive entireness on GSM ..read more