Fresh Apple: TUAW (24 сообщения)

rss2email.ru

Лучшие горящие предложения Мистера Тура!

Это мода! Its Fashion!

TUAW
TUAW
http://www.tuaw.com
рекомендовать друзьям >>

Kickstarter-sponsored WALdok is a speaker dock that plugs into your wall

It takes quite a bit for me to be impressed with yet another speaker dock. I run my music through some pretty good PC speakers, so I don't really have a need for a separate speaker to play music directly from my iPhone. But something about the WALdok appeals to me. It's a tiny dock that plugs into the wall and gives you what sounds like a surprisingly powerful speaker anywhere you have an outlet. Combine it with the nano, as you can see above, and I think I might be sold on a tiny and simple solution for something like a workspace or a hobby room.

The whole project is being funded through Kickstarter, which means it's just an idea that someone had and ran with. For pledging US$59 or more, you get access to one of the first units off the assembly line, and you get to read about the product as it's made and designed on the process blog.

This definitely doesn't seem like just another dock. The project is aiming for $30,000; it's nailed down just over half of that so far, but I don't think they'll have a problem getting a few units out there to start.
Kickstarter-sponsored WALdok is a speaker dock that plugs into your wall originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Los Angeles Apple stores offering exclusive headphones this NBA All-Star weekend

If you're around Los Angeles and need some new headphones this weekend, your local Apple Store has a deal for you. To celebrate the NBA All-Star Game, Skullcandy is selling its NBA All-Star Aviator headphones in Apple Stores exclusively, this weekend only. At $180 they're not cheap, but they are some serious premium headphones.

If you're the kind of person who likes owning exclusive gear, and you were planning on picking up a nice pair of headphones anyway, they're yours to hunt down and buy... unless you're an NBA All-Star player, in which case Skullcandy is giving you a set already, personalized with your own signature and jersey number. Most of us aren't NBA All-Stars, so everyone else will have to head out to the mall. If you do pick up one of these this weekend, let us know how it goes. This seems like a weird deal for Apple to host officially, considering the small potential audience.

[via 9to5Mac]
Los Angeles Apple stores offering exclusive headphones this NBA All-Star weekend originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Lonely Planet launches audio walking tours in London

This is a cool new feature in travel apps that I'd like to see a lot more of: Lonely Planet has released some walking audio tours as apps on the App Store. Unfortunately, all of the tours so far are just based in London, but the apps will walk you around some of London's most interesting areas, including Covent Garden and the West End, bringing along audio reviews and insight from Lonely Planet's editors and experts. The apps will work offline (for tourists traveling abroad), but they're also location aware, so you can get the audio read out to you when you're in the right place as well.

I love this idea -- I am a big fan of walking tours, and I think there's a lot of potential still unexplored in terms of connecting up information with users of connected smartphones. We've seen some interesting AR applications already along these lines, but I'd like to see even more ways to use your iPhone to really explore and learn more about the world around you. Hopefully Lonely Planet will get these tours rolling elsewhere soon.

Right now, the apps are US$1.99, half off the usual price, for a launch sale.
Lonely Planet launches audio walking tours in London originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Apple beats Kindle for ebooks in the UK
An interesting post over at Giga OM is shedding light on the unanswered question: is the iPad or the Kindle pulling ahead in the race to provide ebooks to customers? Citing Jo Henry, the managing director of Book Marketing Ltd, the answer seems to clearly be Apple, at least in the United Kingdoms.

The data collected by Book Marketing and its parent companies indicates that there are more ebooks read in the UK on the iPad and the iPhone each than read on the Kindle. The same is not true in the US, where Kindle is solidly beating out the iPad and iPhone, even combined. Don't worry though; the same study shows that the iOS devices are gaining ground. It could be a much different story in a year.
Apple beats Kindle for ebooks in the UK originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
SRS iWow 3D really improves the sound of any iPod or iOS device
I've been a fan of the SRS iWow audio adapter for my iPod Classic for a number of years. What this dongle did is make iTunes audio sound dramatically better. It tightened the bass, improved the treble and added a good deal of presence to my music with the largest difference being heard in acoustic or orchestral tracks. It also punched up the audio of videos to an extent.

This wasn't done by just increasing the volume, which would be the easy way. Instead, it added proprietary post processing to improve the sound. The downsides were that there were no settings outside of on or off, it was rather big and clunky, and it reduced iPod battery life by 26 percent.

At Macworld 2011, I met with Shawn Kamal, an engineer turned product marketing manager, who introduced me to the next generation -- now made smaller, totally re-done and retitled the SRS iWow 3D (US $59.95). The product is now shipping in black and there is also a bundle for $79.95 which adds four snap on color face plates -- the colors used are the those of the majority of iPhone cases -- and a pair of ear buds that are nothing special.

Comparing the old and the new

I was very interested to compare the older iWow with the iWow 3D and hear if it was worth buying again, since there will be no special upgrade price for the new unit. The answer is an unqualified yes. The bass is tighter, the treble clearer and the soundfield is much wider -- usually sounding like it's a few feet to the left and right of your head. The 3D effect is less than precise, but it is there and does make a big difference especially when listening to sound coming from a video -- especially an action movie. I couldn't hear specific sounds behind me, but the holographic effect was dramatic. In fact, I'd go so far as saying that it will make your headphones or speakers plugged into the iWow 3D, sound twice as good as they do now.

Gallery: SRS iWow 3D Gallery
Continue reading SRS iWow 3D really improves the sound of any iPod or iOS device
SRS iWow 3D really improves the sound of any iPod or iOS device originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
And Yet It Moves 50% off in the Mac App Store

If you want an incredibly fun game to play on your Mac, go and buy And Yet It Moves from the Mac App Store. I've been playing it for the last day and it's one of the best games I've played on my Mac in years.

In And Yet It Moves you play a character who has to navigate his way around seventeen levels of ecological wonder by running and jumping -- and rotating the world around him. Turn walls into floors, tilt the world to make an uncrossable bottomless pit into nothing more than a minor inconvenience, and rotate the world until you've shuffled drops of water through a maze to help your erode through the earth to reach the next level. With a ninety degree rotation of the world, a large rolling bolder that's about to crush you becomes a useful item to help burst through an obstacle you couldn't pass.

If And Yet It Moves sounds kind of wacky, that's because it is. It's The Matrix meets a puzzle game combined with hints of Below the Root thrown in. Besides excellent physics and camera tracking, the game also shines in art direction. And Yet It Moves features worlds made of patterns of torn scraps of photographs, while the character you play is seemingly scribbled on your screen with the strokes of a pencil on a shred of paper. To top it all off, And Yet It Moves features an eerily pleasant and fantastic score that fits right in with the game's wonderful worlds. And Yet It Moves is available in the Mac App Store for 50% off for a limited time. At the regular price of $9.99 it's a must have. At the $4.99 sale price And Yet It Moves is a "what are you waiting for?"
And Yet It Moves 50% off in the Mac App Store originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Director DJ Caruso on using iPads to make I Am Number Four

Here's yet another example of the iPad excelling in a place it was never intended to actually go: Making movies. Director DJ Caruso did an interview in an Apple Store recently, and he says that he used the iPad to help make his new movie "I am Number Four" in all kinds of ways, from controlling on-set lights with an app to seeing scripts, marking up storyboards, and even scouting out locations. Caruso says the initial purchase was more for fun, but as he used the iPad more and more, he found he was doing a lot of his filmmaking work on it as well. "I got it, I don't want to say as a toy," he says, "but then I realized about a week into prep that my storyboards were coming on it, my previs was on it, my script was on it, I don't carry my script anymore."

That's great. It's a real sign of just how well-designed the iPad is that it can find itself used powerfully in almost any task. Originally, of course, it was just sold as a device to sit on the couch and consume media with, but lots and lots of industries have found a place for the iPad to help out, and it's no surprise that the film industry is the same way.
Director DJ Caruso on using iPads to make I Am Number Four originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
iFrogz iPhone 4 cases work with Verizon phones -- we're giving away four

No sooner had we heard about the minute differences in the design of the Verizon (CDMA) iPhone 4 than the TUAW inbox began filling up with news of cases that would work with both the original GSM/AT&T iPhone 4 and also with the Verizon models. Some of the first VZW-compatible iPhone 4 cases we've actually laid hands on come from iFrogz, one of the long-time iPhone accessory manufacturers.

To celebrate the release of both the Verizon iPhone 4 and the ability of the iFrogz cases to work with any iPhone 4, TUAW is giving away four of the protective beauties. What do we have on hand? From left to right in the image above:
- For the car fanatic, there's the US$19.99 SiliconeTreadz case. It's a 100% silicone case with a tire tread pattern, and is treated with anti-dust technology.
- For someone who likes a soft feel to their iPhone case, there's the $29.99 LuxeOriginal. It's a hard plastic case in gray and black with a soft-touch finish.
- For the person who wants a hard case with an attractive etched pattern, consider the $24.99 SoftGloss Phase. It's clear and blue with a spiraling pattern of dots, and the Apple logo on the back of the iPhone 4 shines through.
- For protection and style, the $29.99 Swerve may be the case for you. It has a nice sleek exterior and a colorful (powder blue to dark blue) hard plastic insert for two layers of protection.
Continue reading iFrogz iPhone 4 cases work with Verizon phones -- we're giving away four
iFrogz iPhone 4 cases work with Verizon phones -- we're giving away four originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Terminally Geeky: Deadline reminders using Growl, sleepwatcher, and GNU date
When I have a large deadline looming, I like to keep track of how many days I have left.

I've tried Dashboard widgets, iPad apps, and just about anything else you could think of, but they all have failed for one simple reason: they require me to check them. I can go days or weeks without triggering the Dashboard, and an iOS countdown app still requires that you check it. I could use something like Due app but I really don't want something actively distracting me, I want something passively reminding me. Nor do I want these cluttering up my iCal.

I found my solution by cobbling together several bits of free Unix utilities that are essential to any true geek's tool belt.
Continue reading Terminally Geeky: Deadline reminders using Growl, sleepwatcher, and GNU date
Terminally Geeky: Deadline reminders using Growl, sleepwatcher, and GNU date originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
TwelveSouth MagicWand: Bring your keyboard and Magic Trackpad together as one

At Macworld Expo 2011, one of my personal highlights of the show was talking with Andrew Green, the CEO of Apple accessory design house TwelveSouth. It's always a pleasure to see what new toys the company is coming out with, so when Andrew reached into a bag and pulled out a MagicWand, I naturally paid attention.

The US$29.99 MagicWand is a deceptively simple accessory with a purpose. If you have both the Apple Wireless Keyboard and the Magic Trackpad -- not included with the MagicWand, of course -- you know how sometimes the trackpad and keyboard can move around on your desk independently, making it annoying to find the trackpad with your mousing hand when you're working on something and don't want to look at the desk. The MagicWand consists of a hard plastic channel that both the keyboard and trackpad snap into, so that you appear to have a combo keyboard-trackpad that was "Designed by Apple in California."

Lefties can be happy, since the trackpad can be placed on either side of the keyboard. Knowing that there wouldn't be a smooth seam between the two components, TwelveSouth provides a plastic "H-bar" and soft silicone insert to bridge the gap. When you need to change batteries in one of the components, it just takes a second to pop it out of the MagicWand.

I really like the feel of the combo keyboard-trackpad. Sometimes when I'm really into the flow of writing, my keyboard would actually move due to finger impacts on the keys. Now with the extra weight provided by the trackpad and the "feet" on the bottom of the MagicWand, everything stays in place on my desk. As with all of the TwelveSouth products I've had the pleasure to review before, the MagicWand is one of those "Why didn't Apple think of this?" products that is a joy to use.

If you already own an Apple Wireless Keyboard and a Magic Trackpad, the MagicWand is an accessory you're going to want to buy.

Gallery: TwelveSouth MagicWand
TwelveSouth MagicWand: Bring your keyboard and Magic Trackpad together as one originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Report: iAds surging against Android

In a new study from Medialets, Apple has grabbed the lead in mobile ad share from Android. There have been concerns that the Apple iOS ad system was faltering, but it seems to be getting a strong footing, at least for now.

Most of the Apple gains are on the iPhone and the iPod touch, but the iPad share is starting to move as well. On the Android side, 35 percent of ad traffic comes from 3 phones, the Motorola Droid, the HTC Evo 4G and the Motorola Droid X.

The Medialets report speculates that big holiday sales of iOS devices pushed the Apple share to this higher mark. Apple iOS devices had been trailing Android mobile ad share from September through December. How is this data gathered? It comes from the premium apps that have integrated Medialets rich media ad platform for mobile into their iPhone, iPad and Android apps. Medialets, launched in 2008, enables advertising for premium apps including CNN, Fandango, The New York Times, Pandora and The Weather Channel.

[via Electronista]
Report: iAds surging against Android originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Followup: Some mockups of a 4-inch iPhone screen

After reading about the math behind a 4-inch iPhone screen, readers said the comparisons between different screen aspect ratios would be a lot more helpful with additional mockups aside from the 16:9-screened iPhone we put up. After hacking and slashing my way through a photo editor, I've created a gallery of mockups using the existing iPhone 4 handset as a template. You'll see the current iPhone 4 compared against the same handset with a 4-inch screen in several formats, including its current 3:2 aspect ratio, the iPad's 4:3 format, the 16:10 ratio used in the MacBook and MacBook Pro and the 16:9 format from the "doing the math" post.

I'm not an expert photo manipulator by any means, and these pictures won't be as pixel-precise as the math was. Still, these pics should give you a better concept of how the iPhone would need to change in order to accommodate a 4-inch screen. Check out the gallery below, where you'll find iPhones in versions ranging from drool-worthy to terrifyingly bad.

Gallery: A 4-inch iPhone screen in various aspect ratios
Followup: Some mockups of a 4-inch iPhone screen originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Supply shortages, new model numbers suggest new MacBook Pros
Reports from Italy indicate Apple may be preparing to launch an updated line of MacBook Pros at the end of February.

iSpazio claims an Apple employee informed the site about the imminent release of five new models of MacBook Pro [Google translation] with part numbers MC720, MC721, MC723, MC724, and MC725. According to the report, all three currently available screen sizes - 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch - will be represented among the five new configurations.

Today, the Apple online store in the United States lists shipping times of 24 hours for MacBook Pros. However, supplies of the current models appear to be more constrained in Asia; this morning, the Apple online stores in Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Hong Kong show lead times of up to 10 business days for the MacBook Pro. The dwindling availability of the current MacBook Pro lineup supports the rumor that Apple's professional family of notebooks is about to be refreshed.

The Mac Buyer's Guide by MacRumors indicates the MacBook Pro saw its last major update 311 days ago on April 13, 2010. The current lineup features six standard configurations ranging from a 13-inch model with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo to a 17-inch notebook with a 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 processor. iSpazio's report does not include any specifications or pricing for the upcoming early 2011 models.

[via MacRumors]
Supply shortages, new model numbers suggest new MacBook Pros originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
New Shanghai Apple Store will be China's largest
Apple intends to open a fifth Apple Store in China, and plans indicate it will be the country's largest. China Realtime Report has confirmed plans first revealed by Beijing Youth Daily (Google translation). Beijing Youth Daily interviewed Apple's senior vice-president of retail Ron Johnson, who confirmed that the store would open on Shanghai's Nanjing Road, possibly this summer.

Chinese retail stores are generating a huge amount of traffic and money for Apple. China Realtime Report notes that Chinese Apple Stores average 40,000 visitors per day. That's more than four times the traffic of U.S. stores. Indeed, China's four stores brought in US$2.6 billion last quarter. That's nearly four times as much as the sales for the same period in the previous year, and the best numbers from any stores worldwide.

This new store will be China's fifth and the second in Shanghai. If you're in the area and notice any construction, let us know. The last store Apple built in China was a stunner.

[Via China Realtime Report]

New Shanghai Apple Store will be China's largest originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
MacTech Boot Camp 2011 coming to four more cities
If you missed MacTech Boot Camp before Macworld this year, you may have a chance to attend if you live in or around Dallas, Boston, Los Angeles or Chicago. In fact, there happen to be major airports in all of those towns, so if the cost of flying to San Francisco was out of reach, you're in luck!

What is MacTech Boot Camp? A one-day session geared towards the home user, small business users and anyone who may assist those users (your family's computer guy, for example). We've been quite impressed with the MacTech events we've attended so far, and attendees at the San Francisco Boot Camp were quite enthusiastic with what they learned. Full press release on the next page, but we've listed the locations and dates of the upcoming events below.
- Dallas, Texas: April 27, 2011 - Sessions Chair: CV Rao, and Nathan Toups
- Boston, Massachusetts: May 18, 2011 - Sessions Chair: Andy Espo, and Leon Lincoln
- Los Angeles, California: July 27, 2011 - Sessions Chair: Sean Colins
- Chicago, Illinois: August 31, 2011 - Sessions Chair: Douglas Ward, and Ben Greiner
Continue reading MacTech Boot Camp 2011 coming to four more cities
MacTech Boot Camp 2011 coming to four more cities originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
FTC and DOJ monitoring Apple's new subscription policy
Both the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are aware of the new policy Apple implemented for media companies with applications in the App Store. The new terms require media providers to sell their media through the App Store if they sell this content through another outlet.

A prime example is the Sony Reader app which was reportedly rejected from the App Store because it sold eBooks from its own digital store and not within its iOS application. This new policy takes effect June 30 and will drive many purchases through the App Store, giving Apple a 30% cut.

U.S. regulators are taking a closer look at this policy to determine if it runs afoul of any federal antitrust laws. This interest is preliminary and may not turn into a formal investigation or sanctions against the company. The European Union is also closely monitoring this situation, but is currently not taking any action either.

Apple was under the microscope last year following its decision to ban iOS applications developed using third-party tools such as Adobe Flash. Both the FTC and the European Commission launched an investigation, but Apple reversed this policy before a decision could be made by either regulatory body.
FTC and DOJ monitoring Apple's new subscription policy originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
The iPad and MIDI hardware working together, here's how.
Create Digital Music has put together an interesting video detailing the various ways that you can connect MIDI gear (synthesizers / keyboards) to your iPad. MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) is the standard means by which musical information is communicated between MIDI capable hardware and software. As Create Digital Music puts it, "... [MIDI] doesn't transmit sound, but it does transmit information like pitch, note events, knob twists, button presses, and clock and transport information."

Using various MIDI-compatible apps on your iPad, and the Apple Camera Connection Kit or the Line 6 Midi Mobilizer, it's actually pretty straight forward getting MIDI gear (from today, dating all the way back to the 1980s) to work with your iPad.

Since Apple introduced Core MIDI into iOS 4.2 and above, it's easier than ever to get your iPad working with MIDI devices -- and that's what the video after the break demonstrates. If you've found some interesting music apps for your iPad, but you're struggling to integrate them with your music-setup (or even just use a MIDI keyboard with your iPad) then the video after the break is for you.

[Via Engadget]
Continue reading The iPad and MIDI hardware working together, here's how.
The iPad and MIDI hardware working together, here's how. originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
China Telecom close to inking deal with Apple for the CDMA iPhone 4
In a research note, Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White suggest China Telecom is close to completing a deal with Apple to carry the CDMA iPhone 4. White cites a report on Chinese website NetEase that claims one branch of the wireless operator is already accepting pre-orders for the CDMA iPhone 4. He also refers to a microblog post, reportedly from a China Telecom employee, proclaiming that the first CDMA iPhone call has been placed on its network.

"It is unclear how pre-orders are available before an official announcement has been made by the two companies," White writes, "however, the key takeaway is that the relationship between Apple and China Telecom is clearly moving in the right direction, and we believe that a deal will eventually be announced this year."

A deal with China Telecom would help Apple break further into China's telecom market, the largest in the world with over 842 million total wireless subscribers. Currently, China Unicom is the sole carrier of the iPhone 4 in China and is the #2 carrier in the Asian country with 167 million wireless subscribers. China Telecom comes in third place with 90 million subscribers. This Asian Pacific market, according to White, accounts for almost 58 percent of the world's estimated 550 million CDMA customers. The remaining carrier, government-controlled China Mobile, has a whopping 584 million subscribers and is rumored to be negotiating with Apple to develop an iPhone compatible with the carrier's future TD-LTE network.
China Telecom close to inking deal with Apple for the CDMA iPhone 4 originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
LIFE's photographic history of computing
LIFE Magazine was a great magazine in its day. Since ceasing monthly publication in 2000 and closing as a newspaper supplement in 2007, the brand itself appears on the occasional "special issue" and has continued showcasing images on its website. You can also browse the LIFE archives through the lovely and free iPad app.

LIFE puts together galleries from time to time around various themes, and one that might be relevant to your interests is A Brief History Of Computing. Starting with the abacus and working through history to get to current events (I won't give away the ending!), it's an interesting look at how technology has evolved on the computing front over the last 5,000 years.

Highlights include a couple of Steves, a guidance computer from the Apollo space program and the first iPod.

Which image is your favorite?

P.S. Our own Mike Rose was a manager at the monthly LIFE from 1996 to 2000.
LIFE's photographic history of computing originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Apple's revenue tops mobile market, but share sinking
There are those who will consider it bad news for Apple that their share of the total smartphone App Store market shrank by over 10% last year -- but there probably won't be many sleepless nights in Cupertino at the news, since Apple's App Store still sells over 82% of all apps used on smartphones.

Although Apple's massive US$1.782 billion app revenue (that's right, $1,782,000,000) includes apps sold to both iPhone and iPad owners, it dwarfs by more than 10 times nearest rival Blackberry's $165 million take for 2010. In percentage terms, Apple's revenue increased a mere 131.9% over that of 2009 -- the Google Android market is the record holder, rising a whopping 861.5% from $11 million to $102 million -- but that represents an increase of more than a billion dollars in revenue for Apple ($769 million to $1,782 million) in one year.

The trend will likely continue in future years, with Apple's revenue increasing while its market share decreases, simply because there will be more and more competition in a marketplace they basically invented. The combining of the Nokia Ovi Store and the Windows 7 marketplace is scheduled for this year and next and will offer keen competition for RIM's Blackberry and Google's Android stores.

But Apple will be happy that they still earned around five times more than Blackberry, Nokia and Android put together -- and that's just from apps. Don't forget that Apple also manufactured and sold all the devices running those apps in the first place.

[Via Engadget]
Apple's revenue tops mobile market, but share sinking originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
AirStash beta adds support for WebDAV and iPad apps

Not content with effectively adding unlimited storage to your iPhone and iPad, AirStash developer Wearable Inc. is introducing a public beta of the ability to read and write iWork files via WebDAV, making it easier to take your work with you wherever you go.

AirStash is a WiFi-connected flash drive reader. You can connect to it via Safari from your portable device or plug it into a USB port on your main computer, allowing you to expand your iDevice's storage to as many SD cards as you can carry.

It's a little expensive for a flash reader at US$99.99, and this new beta version of the software still has a few rough edges with regard to things like entering WEP keys and photo viewing. But if you're the sort of person who simply has to take your entire movie collection with you everywhere you go, it could be just the ticket.

AirStash beta adds support for WebDAV and iPad apps originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Apple seeds fifth Mac OS 10.6.7 beta build to developers
This Thursday Apple seeded build 10J858 of Mac OS 10.6.7 to developers for testing. It's beginning to look a little like clockwork as yesterday it was a week since Apple released build 10J85, and just over a week before that, they released build 10J846. This is the fifth beta build of Mac OS 10.6.7 to come out within the last five weeks.

As reported by MacRumors, the combo update clocks in at 1008.8 MB and 434.4 MB for the delta update. As with previous 10.6.7 builds, no known issues are reported with build 10J858. Alongside AirPort, SMB file sharing, Bonjour, graphics drivers and the Mac App Store application, Apple has added Safari to the list of items developers have been requested to concentrate their testing on.

We've no way of knowing when Apple will release Mac OS 10.6.7. We can only assume it will be at some point before the release of Mac OS X Lion, which is slated for release this coming summer.
Apple seeds fifth Mac OS 10.6.7 beta build to developers originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
TUAW's Daily App: TurboGrafx-16 GameBox

When the App Store first opened, Apple wasn't very keen on running emulators. Not only can they easily fall into a gray legal area, but allowing extra layers of code to run didn't seem safe to Apple at the time. Since then, however, Apple has loosened its policy, and now emulators of old consoles and hardware with official clearance are good to go. The TurboGrafx-16 Gamebox is one of those. It's an emulator of the old TurboGrafx-16 console, and since HudsonSoft designed it and most of the games, they're fully within their rights to sell the code on iOS. The app is free, and old school TG16 titles like Bonk's Adventure, Gradius and Bomberman '94 are available right there in the app for an in-app purchase of US$2.99 each. You also get World Sports Competition for free, so if you just want to download it and see how it works, you can do that.

A recent update to the game added five new titles, including Bonk's Revenge, Double Dungeons and Benkei Gaiden, and the controls have been tweaked a few times recently as well. Unfortunately, because it's an emulator, there aren't any iOS extras like Game Center integration, but that's not the point. You really just want to play the old TG16 titles, mostly as they were intended. Kudos to HudsonSoft for putting this all together.

Someday, maybe, when the iPhone and iPod touch have finally conquered Nintendo's handhelds like Nintendo beat Sega (no, I don't think that's going to happen any time soon, either), we can finally see a SNES or even a Nintendo 64 emulator running officially on iOS. But until then, the TurboGrafx-16 is worth a look.
TUAW's Daily App: TurboGrafx-16 GameBox originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать
Elle, Nylon and Pop Sci gladly adopt Apple's subscription terms

Not every publisher's feathers were ruffled by the changes Apple made to its subscription policy earlier this week. While Rhapsody may have responded negatively to the changes, some publishers are accepting the new terms and adopting Apple's new subscription model. According to Advertising Age, three popular magazines, Elle, Nylon and Popular Science, will let customers subscribe via the App Store and, in return, will concede some of their valuable customer data to Apple. The trio believes the advantages of distributing content via Apple's mobile platform outweigh any potential disadvantages.

Nylon is the smallest magazine of the bunch and will be least affected by the loss of customer information. The independent magazine eyes the monetary reward of increased subscriptions and assumes its customers will still provide demographic information via other methods. Popular Science shares a similar approach and may prompt users to share their information after they have purchased a subscription and received their second or third issue of the digital magazine.

Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., the publisher behind Elle magazine, is taking a wait and see approach. Rather than become enemies with Apple, the magazine is going to adopt the model and see how it turns out. The publisher also sees the model as being very fluid and one that Apple and publishers can modify over time. "I don't think this is something that is set in stone either for us or for Apple. I'd rather work with them to improve it over time than just sit on the sidelines," said Philippe Guelton, Executive Vice President and COO at Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
Elle, Nylon and Pop Sci gladly adopt Apple's subscription terms originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Переслать