iPad By Davis: “Mercer Report mocks Apple share price, reverses BlackBerry's fortunes” plus 10 more |
- Mercer Report mocks Apple share price, reverses BlackBerry's fortunes
- Letterpress updated, adds shake to shuffle, high contrast theme, more
- Shocker: People are uploading porn to Vine
- H.265 video gets approved, sets the stage for more efficient 1080p, eventual 4K
- iMore show. Live. Tonight. 7pm ET. 4pm PT. Be here!
- Editor's desk: Macworld|iWorld 2013 bound!
- Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Abstract Shapes
- 3 Years Ago Today Steve Jobs Unveiled a Giant iPod Touch
- iPad with Sunday Morning Hangover?
- 128GB iPhones get rumored again, this time thanks to iOS 6.1
- Tim Cook reportedly uses Town Hall meeting to address Android, Wall Street, and more
| Mercer Report mocks Apple share price, reverses BlackBerry's fortunes Posted: 27 Jan 2013 08:37 PM PST Your daily dose of humor, courtesy of the Mercer Report . (Think something like Jon Stewart but with more u and eh.) It's easy to point out that Apple lost more money last week then several RIMs put together, but it's also undeniable that if you bought RIMM stock a while back, you'd be better off today than if you bought APPL stock. And that should tell you just how totally insane the market it. Again, Source: Mercer Report via CrackBerry, of course. 
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| Letterpress updated, adds shake to shuffle, high contrast theme, more Posted: 27 Jan 2013 03:16 PM PST Letterpress by Atebits, the word game darling of geeks everywhere, has been updated to version 1.3. New features include the ability to shake to shuffle letters (credited to developer Loren Brichter's wife -- don't ask about the dance!), a new high-contrast theme, the ability to view replays in Safari or Chrome, and some behind the scenes awesomizing of an undisclosed nature. If you're already playing Letterpress, grab the update now. If not, head on over to the App Store and try it. It's free, and it's spectacular.
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| Shocker: People are uploading porn to Vine Posted: 27 Jan 2013 03:07 PM PST Earlier this week Twitter launched their new, concise video service, Vine. And, just like we predicted -- surprise, surprise -- some people have been using it for porn ads and penis shots. This is cause for comment not only because of the content itself, but because a short time ago Apple removed the 500px app due to what they claimed was "pornographic" content (rather than artistic nudity). Almost any app that allows user generated content, be it images, videos, or even audio or plain text, runs the risk of adult material being posted. That includes Facebook and Twitter, 500px and Vine. Almost any app that accesses the unfettered web runs the risk of such material being found, intentionally or unintentionally. That includes Apple's own, built-in Safari. Apple maintains two different developer paths -- the App Store for highly curated, family friendly content, and web apps for anything goes. Playboy, for example, made a web app for the iPad. Problems arise, however, when the line is blurred between the two -- when App Store apps pull web content. The App Store is run by humans, and is subject to the whims and vagaries that come with human curation. That's both strength and a weakness, a blessing and a curse. The world is not a safe or sterile place. In the wild, you'll come across all manner of beauty and terror, natural and animal. The web is no different. Sometimes we'll discover stuff that delights us, sometimes repulses us. We can never be protected completely from either. Even bubbles break. From the start, Apple has said they'd get the App Store wrong, and come across things they didn't anticipate, but that they'd learn and grow. This particular problem has been around for years, but as social sharing has become easier, it's come to the surface again. The App Store is Apple's store, so they'll have to figure out a way to deal with it. I say slap the same mature content warning on social sharing that they slap on full blown web access. It's scary, and it's not ideal, but it's pragmatic given the system as it stands. Anyone have any better ideas? 
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| H.265 video gets approved, sets the stage for more efficient 1080p, eventual 4K Posted: 27 Jan 2013 02:31 PM PST H.265, the next generation video codec from the consortium that brought you the current Apple standard, H.264, has been approved by the International telecommunications Union (ITU). In a press release, the ITU said:
Downloading 1080p files that are half the size will be great. When Ultra HD (aka 4K, aka 2160p) goes into broader released, we'll see what file sizes those monsters end up having. at 4 times the pixels, even half the size will still be twice as big as 1080p. And that's if/when Apple chooses to adopt it and integrate support for it into iTunes, and into iOS devices, most especially the Apple TV. Since they only added 1080p last year, it could be a bit of a wait... Hopefully H.265 support for 1080p will be faster. Either way, nice to see the technology moving forward. My flash storage thanks you! Source: ITU, thanks Anthony! 
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| iMore show. Live. Tonight. 7pm ET. 4pm PT. Be here! Posted: 27 Jan 2013 02:39 PM PST I'm flying to Macworld|iWorld 2013 tomorrow, or at least hoping to, so I'll be doing the iMore show extra early today in hopes to make my plane super-early tomorrow morning. Join me to talk about Apple's earnings, all the iOS device rumors, and more! 4pm PT / 7pm ET. Be here! And if you have any questions you want answered, leave them in the comments! 
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| Editor's desk: Macworld|iWorld 2013 bound! Posted: 27 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST Early tomorrow morning I'm jumping in a plane and flying to San Francisco, California for Macworld|iWorld 2013. Since it's been well below -20 celsius in Montreal this week, I'm looking even more forward to it than usual. Leanna Lofte, who usually covers the SF events with me, just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Lucy Danae Lofte, so she's sitting this one out. There are very few people in our line of work with her camera skills, so to make sure we keep the level of quality you guys expect and deserve, we're bringing Martin Reisch with us this year. Yeah. There'll be a lot going on, and we'll be doing our best to bring you with us every step of the way with photo journals, videos, podcasts, and a bunch of social sharing. Here's the plan so far:
There will be tons of other stuff happening in and around all that, so make sure you keep your browsers locked to iMore's Macworld|iWorld page, and subscribe to the iMore YouTube channel to get all the latest videos as soon as inhumanly possible. And for up-to-the-minute stuff, including everything and anything unfit for print, you can follow @reneritchie and @safesolvent on Twitter. Last year Macworld|iWorld completed their transition from trade show to epicenter of the community, from a place to see Apple stuff to place to meet and enjoy the company of fellow Apple enthusiasts. I can't wait to see what they have in store for all of us this year. Let me know what you'd like to see from our Macworld|iWorld coverage, and if you're going to be there are well, please do come up and say hello! 
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| Weekend iPad Wallpapers: Abstract Shapes Posted: 27 Jan 2013 10:22 AM PST Today's weekend iPad wallpaper choices are all abstract shapes and patterns created in just a few minutes over the last couple of evenings on my iPad mini. The first one, shown above, I'm just calling Black Blue & Yellow Squares. It's a little louder than my usual color choices but I find it striking and [...]         Related Stories
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| 3 Years Ago Today Steve Jobs Unveiled a Giant iPod Touch Posted: 27 Jan 2013 09:24 AM PST On January 27, 2010 Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPad. Here's one of the ways he summed up the new device that stood out for me on that day: Our most advanced technology in a magical & revolutionary device at an unbelievable price. The words 'magical' and 'revolutionary' in particular really stuck with me. I [...] Related Stories
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| iPad with Sunday Morning Hangover? Posted: 27 Jan 2013 08:17 AM PST Apparently my iPad mini had a bit of a rough night last night. Maybe it was out on the town with some sexy white models. Or maybe I left it on charge too long over the 100% mark yesterday afternoon and now the rush is wearing off. In any case, it woke up this morning [...] Related Stories
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| 128GB iPhones get rumored again, this time thanks to iOS 6.1 Posted: 27 Jan 2013 07:47 AM PST Some people really want a 128GB iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, so whenever there's a new product refresh coming up, like the presumed iPhone 5S, rumors of higher storage capacities come with them. This time, however, it's the news that iOS 6.1 beta 5 provides support for larger storage capacities that's sent the rumors running. Neal on Twitter posted:
Apple has historically increased storage sizes as a product differentiator, and when the cost of the required NAND flash storage made it cost effective to do so. Going from 64GB to 128GB and keeping the same size device means double density flash. So, going in reverse order, component prices for high density flash would have to be cheap enough for Apple to maintain current prices and margins. And, Apple would have to be in the right place in their product cycle that it's a feature and not a throw-away. From my iPhone 5 preview:
Well, it's that year now, so it's safe to add 128GB to your iPhone 5S, iPod touch 5 mark II, iPad 5, and iPad mini 2 speculation lists. Whether cloud storage, either Apple's own iCloud or service like Dropbox mitigate the product pressure for 128GB remains to be seen. There will always be some people who want as much as they can have locally on their device -- witness the continued existence of the iPod classic. (And, as Mark Gurman once again points out on Twitter, the former could finally send the latter off to outdated iPod retirement land, presumably somewhere in Florida...) Heck, Apple could probably offer a 256GB device at $999 and find some segment of the market still asking for more. The only question is how much storage hits the price and sales sweet spot for Apple in 2013. Do you still need or want more, or has the cloud changed your mind? Source: Neal via iDownloadblog 
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| Tim Cook reportedly uses Town Hall meeting to address Android, Wall Street, and more Posted: 27 Jan 2013 06:58 AM PST CEO Tim Cook reportedly held an all-hands Town Hall meeting last week to address the state of the Apple with employees. Subjects covered were said to include employee perks, production from supply chain to sales, the retail stores, the competitive landscape with Google's Android, and opportunities in China. 9to5Mac's ace reported, Mark Gurman, has a full rundown. Here's a highlight from the competitive part:
No phone hardware, software, or service is perfect. Android's choice of devices is a huge selling point for some, a huge pain point for others. Google's been iterating Android at a fairly brisk pace and while things iOS users don't like about it, including how interface works, are still issues, it's not safe to assume that'll always be the case. That's why Apple's strategy for beating Android can't rely on poor user experience from Google. It has to rely on better software and services from Apple. Otherwise it's outside Apple's control. Based on how much passion Cook expresses when he discusses everything from the stairs at an Apple Store to the unibody on MacBook to the way they build the iPad mini, he knows that better than anyone. They just have to continually execute on it. Go read the full recap. Source: 9to5Mac 
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