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- Infographic: The App Store Economy
Did you know the average cost of an app is $2.70 or that the average iPhone owner spends $10 a month on apps? GigaOm has put together a snazzy infographic breaking down the economy of the App Store with dozens of tasty morsels of data.
Переслать - Slates for Doctors? Where Apple's Tablet Makes Dollars and Sense
In some interesting tablet news that falls a little off the well-trod rumors path, Apple officials have apparently paid a visit to LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center a few times to talk up the potential of an Apple tablet in terms of the medical field. VentureBeat is reporting that these visits have been confirmed by Jason Wilk, an entrepreneur whose father plays golf with Cedars-Sinai executives.
It makes sense for Apple to test the waters in non-consumer markets where tablets have found some purchase in the past. The iPhone is making gains in enterprise, and is even used by many doctors because of the low cost and good design of a variety of medical database apps available on the device’s App Store.
Combining that kind of knowledge repository with a device that can replace a clipboard and act as a connected link to the hospital’s central database would obviously be something that might appeal to doctors. It would reduce the need for extraneous devices and trips back and forth from a central nursing station where information is collected and stored, and could conceivably lower wait times and increase patient turnover, an important concern in privatized health care.
Add to that the fact that even at the fairly high price that’s been rumored lately, around $1,000, the Apple slate would be a bargain. Currently, the Motion Computing C5 is one of the more successful devices in the medical tablet space, one that isn’t yet very crowded either. The C5 costs double the proposed price of the Apple tablet, a full $2,000 per unit. Specialized software for the device can add significantly to the overall cost health organizations end up paying for the tech.
If Apple manages to break into the medical market, and other industrial and commercial fields where tablet tech is useful, then the sales projections that have been floating around begin to make sense. One to one and a half million units per quarters seemed like an awful ambitious figure for the consumer market alone, especially for a device that seems to fit a very specific market niche. But imagine interactive exhibits at museums and exhibitions, self-service at retail chains and outlets, and, as we’ve just been discussing, doctors making rounds. In all of the above, an Apple tablet, at $1,000 or less, becomes a very sensible business proposition, especially if it makes use of the App Store platform for software, which should make it relatively inexpensive to source and develop custom applications to suit any and all needs.
Переслать - FireWire vs. USB: Which Is Faster?
Most modern Macs, except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models (such as my late 2008 unibody, alas), offer both FireWire and USB connections, so when shopping for an external hard drive you have plenty of options for something that will work with your Mac, notes Macworld’s James Galbraith. And these days, he adds, USB hard drives are more common and less expensive than FireWire or even FireWire/USB combo drives.
True, but even though USB 2.0 has a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 480 Mbps, vs. a nominal 400 Mbps for FireWire 400, via real-world experience I can attest that USB 2.0 lags well behind FireWire 400 — to say nothing of the FireWire 800 used on all Macs still sold today with FireWire support. And adding insult to injury, USB 2.0 doesn’t support incredibly useful Target Disk Mode. I’ve also found that while booting a Mac from a USB 2.0 drive is possible, it’s not nearly as satisfactory and low-hassle (or speedy) as booting from FireWire drives.
My gut-level impressions are borne out by Macworld’s lab testing, which found, for instance, that with a Western Digital My Book Studio 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive connected to a MacBook Pro, copying a 1GB file took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0, while duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on the WD drive took 10 percent less time than when run over USB 2.0, and that FireWire 800 proved 35-58 percent faster than USB 2.0 in various tests on the MacBook Pro with the My Book Studio. Similar comparative results were noted using a compact Verbatim portable drive with the MacBook Pro.
However, the report also notes that the imminent release of USB 3.0 products in early 2010 promises speeds greater than FireWire 800 or even eSATA, but suggests that it may be some time before Apple begins supporting USB 3.0 with compatible ports (which will be backwards-compatible for USB 1.1 and 2.0 devices on Mac systems).
In the meantime, even a USB 2.0 only external hard drive is the best choice for a backup medium for most of us, especially using Time Machine in OS X 10.5 and 10.6 But my recommendation is to spend a few more dollars if necessary and get an external drive with multiple I/O interface support. Quad interface drives are becoming quite popular, able to handle USB 2.0 (and hopefully soon USB 3.0) plus FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA interfaces.
What’s your favorite backup medium and I/O interface?
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