Posts Tagged "iPhone"
Amazon Kindle Changes Strategy in Apple’s Shadow
The Apple Blog has this nice analysis of Amazon’s recent changes to its royalty policy and some other moves they’ve been making in the impending buildup to Apple’s iPad. Will it be enough or has the ship already sailed?
I have heard it said, “If you can’t compete, sue.” Of course, I’m sure that’s not the case with Nokia’s recent complaint against Apple. Sure, it could have started litigation back in 2007 when the iPhone was first launched, but I guess the almost-three-year-delay was just how long it took getting its lawyers to agree on the wording. Or the letterhead. Or something.
Amazon, on the other hand, is doing the exact opposite and choosing to Compete with a capital C. This week it has floated a boat-load of announcements around its Kindle e-book reader device and platform. Now, stop being cynical, I’m sure the timing has nothing to do with the imminent unveiling of Apple’s mythical Tablet.
Read More...Kindle for iPhone – Gives Books and The Real Kindle a Run For Their Money
As we move into the Apple Tablet era I wanted to test drive what the experience might be like so I downloaded the Amazon Kindle for iPhone Reader [FREE AppStore] from the iTunes Store. Kindle for iPhone is meant as a standalone or companion to an Amazon Kindle eBook reader. You can shop for books online using your Amazon.com account, purchase, download and read all in this clever little application.
Kindle for iPhone is a very light download so you’ll be up and running in no time, you just need to enter your Amazon.com account details. Then you are taken into a Safari browser session to pick out books. Couple of nice features, you can download decent sized free samples of any book you’re interested in and if you have a Kindle it will automatically sync up so you have one copy on the Kindle and one for the iPhone. I chose a cookbook about making Japanese food.
Read More...More details emerge about iPad tablet
Some more details emerging today about the Apple iPad/Slate/Tablet.
AppleInsider says according to its sources of all the Apple concept drawings artists have come up with, this one is the closest:
Read More...iPhone and Tablet Moving to Verizon – AT&T Left Behind
The Street brings us a bring interesting new rumors about Verizon and Apple.
The hotly anticipated Apple Tablet — or the Apple Newton II — will feature a wireless chip made by Qualcomm. This discrete little fact would confirm that Apple has chosen Verizon (VZ Quote) as its telco partner, says Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar.
If true, it validates what TheStreet first reported in July — that Apple and Verizon are working together to sell the new Tablet.
“This makes sense for Apple,” says Nielsen Wireless analyst Roger Entner. “It behooves them to build a relationship with a company they haven’t worked with yet,” Enter said referring to Verizon.
Read More...Amazon Hedges Ahead of Pending Apple Event
In a sign that the party is coming to an end for Jeff Bezos, it was announced today that Amazon would be changing their royalty sharing model from the truly paltry 25-30% they were offering before to up to 70%. This comes with some strings as explained by Mashable:
Read More...To be able to get the 70 percent royalty deal, the list price for your title must be both between $2.99 to $9.99 and be 20 percent below the lowest physical book price; title also must be “offered at or below price parity with competition, including physical book prices”. The title also needs to be included in a broad set of features in the Kindle Store, e.g. text-to-speech. Finally, the title must be made available for sale “in all geographies for which the author or publisher has rights”
Apple Tablet Design Circa 1987
We’re all waiting around for the shoe or rather the tablet to drop from Apple later this month. But would you believe Apple was toying with the idea as early as 1987? Back then it was called a Knowledge Navigator.
The device opened like a book, with the “spine” lifting the face to an easy reading angle, and acting as a carrying handle when closed. It also sported a video camera similar to a modern webcam with a slot in the upper right for a memory card, and the grills on either side of the screen are speakers. Check out this video showing the Navigator in action:
Read More...Apple Event Not Music Focused
Well it sorta makes sense as the music and later telco industries have been the intensive focus of iPod and iPhone related Apple events respectively for years. This morning All Things Digital reported some rumors on who would be part of the upcoming Apple tablet event. Of note is that music industry types would be low on the radar next to publishers, newspapers, magazines and books- in that order of preference.
Read More...Apple Readying Touchscreen iMacs
PCWorld brings this report of the highly successful multitouch technology coming to more than the iPhone, iTouch and tablet. So perhaps the Tablet won’t be the only cool thing unveiled in San Francisco on January 27th. Could this be Steve’s “one more thing?”
If you’re tired of hearing about the mythical Apple tablet, then you’ll be happy to hear a new rumor has popped up claiming Apple will launch a 22-inch touchscreen iMac later this year. The computer will be produced by Taiwan-based manufacturer Quanta, with the screens being produced by Sintek Photronic, according to DigiTimes based on an account from the Chinese language newspaper China Times.
Apple: Reach Out and Touch Me
A touchscreen iMac wouldn’t be terribly surprising, since touch-based features and devices are becoming an increasing part of Apple’s product lineup. The company has had a runaway success with the iPhoneand iPod Touch, multitouch trackpads in MacBookswere introduced in 2008, and Apple recently brought out the touch-based Magic Mouse. If the rumors are correct, Apple may also be introducing a 10-inchtouchscreen multimedia device at the end of this month.
For more details and some analysis of what a touchscreen iMac might look like, head over to the rest of the story at PCWorld.
Read More...New Patent Points to Stylus for Tablet
MacRumors points out a new patent recently filed by Apple regarding the use of a stylus for input on a touch screen.
Given Steve Jobs’ distaste for styluses, it comes as a surprise that Apple has recently applied for a patent application exploring the use of a stylus for the capacitive touch sensors found on the iPhone. Unlike the recently revived Newton patent, this new patent was actually filed with today’s technology in mind.
We had our an engineer friend look this over and it’s kind of an interesting peek into what might be a feature of the upcoming Apple Tablet. What this patent essentially covers is the use of a special stylus tip that would permit highly accurate input on a screen primarily designed for touch use.
Read More...It’s the Value Added Content – Stupid
The AP via MacNewsWorld ponders the viability of the Apple tablet. They point out a lot of the previous attempts to bring a tablet to market have failed, most notably:
Read More...Bill Gates, cofounder of Apple nemesis Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), predicted repeatedly during the 2000s that tablets were about to take off. He was wrong because those tablets required people to use a pen-shaped stylus to tap buttons or write on the screen, which was attractive in workplaces where employees needed to check boxes or fill out forms. For most people, though, using a stylus for regular computer tasks such as editing a spreadsheet was more cumbersome than using a mouse and keyboard.
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