Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks. As Apple celebrates its part of 1.2 billion app downloads last week, those centuries-past, paper-based tomes are the focus of the company’s first big news in 2012. While we’re sure it is hard at work on a budget iPad and a new [...]
So what will it be, the iPad or an Android tablet? If you’re a consumer, the choice might be tough. But if you’re an app developer, says paidContent, the choice is simple: focus on the iPad. The reason? Google is preventing many Android tablets from embedding Android Market–thereby limiting publishers’ ability to monetize. “Setting up a [...]
Apple has begun selling spiffy iBookstore gift cards at its retail stores and at retail partners like Target, where iTunes gift cards have long been available,reports MacRumors. The cards are available in $25 and $50 denominations. Clearly Apple is hoping to cash in on the holiday gift-giving season with its newest e-commerce venture. Apple Now [...]
Amazon.com apparently loves them some iOS, offering up free universal apps for both Amazon Mobile and Kindle. Now the world’s biggest online store has added a new iPad-specific app that brings a whole new shopping experience. On Tuesday, Amazon.com introduced their new Amazon Windowshop, an iPad-specific app that promises “a top to bottom rewrite of Amazon.com [...]
With the announcement of a sleeker, sexier new aluminum bodied MacBook Air, you might have forgotten about Apple’s other slim tablet device, the iPad. Apparently, the device has made quite the stride in the e-books and video sphere, as the iPad is widely used to consume both those forms of media. A Nielsen study on the devices [...]
When Apple’s executives took the stage in Cupertino yesterday, they weren’t just listing off the new features and products. They were giving a master class in how to design and market world-class products. Here are a few of the lessons we took home: Watch what’s working in one product line, and adapt it to your other product [...]
Apple sold 4.19 million iPads in the quarter ended September 30, the company said yesterday, bringing the total sold to just under 7.5 million since the device was released in April. During the conference call discussing results, Apple CEO Steve Jobs criticized what he called the forthcoming avalanche of new tablet devices, saying the 7 [...]
Amazon and Target are now selling the Apple iPad. Previously, the device had only been available from Apple’s online and retail stores, as well as from Best Buy. The move into other outlets heats up the competition between iPad and the E-Ink Big Three, Sony, Kindle, and Nook, all of which are available in various retail [...]
Among other revelations from yesterday’s Apple event was the unveiling of Ping, a new social network that runs through iTunes, which allows users to recommend, comment on, and discover iTunes music and to follow artists, who update their profiles regularly. It’s a bit like Facebook for friends and famous people crossed with a store. Though Ping [...]
Early in today’s Fall special event, Apple surprised everyone with a sneak peak of the next, next iOS release–4.2. It’s all about the iPad. iOS 4.1 hasn’t even been released yet (the most current software for iPhones and iPads is version 4.0.2), and iOS 4.2 is still weeks away–but Steve Jobs thought it important enough [...]
VOLUMES have been written about technology’s ability to connect people. But burying one’s nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating — with its unspoken assertion that the reader does not want to be disturbed. So what about a device that occupies the evolving intersection between? “Strangers constantly ask about it,” Michael Hughes, a [...]
With Apple’s iAd venture off to a bumpy start, and iBook sales moving along slower than expected in the face of the Kindle’s enormous popularity, Apple is considering a move that will either be embraced by publishers and consumers, or despised. According to The Wall Street Journal and CNET, Apple is seriously considering the insertion [...]
Amidst all the doom and gloom of the book publishing industry, the CEO of Ingram Book Company, Skip Prichard, says books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading. The Kindle. The iPad. The Nook. Not to mention at least thirty other reading devices or Google Editions, [...]