This week, our heroes decide to freestyle it again; bringing you our usual mix of news & humour (which couldn’t get any lower than the “Bodyform” musical interludes from last week)
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Hi folks, just wanted to make an addition or two post wise which I left out of the latest podcast.
The Town Hall meeting incident: As regards what Stevie J actually said or didn’t say, Daring Fireball has his take (now updated with same information on this Wired article) on what happened at the Town Hall meeting. Whatever the words used, the sentiments are the same as Google & Apple are in a lot of ways now enemies.
Also, neglected to mention that out of this meeting Stevie also stated following as reported by macrumors.com:
- that agressive updates are to be delivered to iPhone that Android will not be able to match (an A+ upgrade to iPhone apparently, so guess we can expect a baby brother chip (A2 running on Cortex A9 SP chip perhaps) without a doubt in next 4 months)
- Lala was a talent purchase, whose team have been integrated into the iTunes team (wonder how Eddie Cue is going to keep ‘em in hand
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- New Macs for 2010 that will take Apple to the next level (can’t believe that a 22-inch touchscreen Mac is it- gorilla arms anyone ? )
- Blu-Ray is effectively still a “bag of hurt”, so a wait & see approach is been taken sales wise (considering there are now Blu-Ray players under €150, there should be a considerable jump unit sales wise especially after Xmas period)
Sorry for not including these in show. Promise to behave going forward.
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Posted by: Dave in Apple, Opinions, tags: 3G, ipad
Why the $130 price gap between non-3G & 3G version ? : This, I neglected to mention in the latest podcast as it went in the Bermuda Triangle called the “back of my mind” & also in
my previous article. I’m trying to work out how a $10-$20 cost 3G chip can somehow lead to a approx 550%+ margin based on extra $130 on retail price. Are the Wi-Fi only iPads being cross-subsidised to a degree by the Wi-Fi+3G models in order to maintain overall projected gross profit margins for this product ?
Would like to know indeed.
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This week, our heroes discuss all things max-iPad ( you know that little event held last Wednesday in the village of San Francisco ).
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Well the event finished last Wed & I’ve had a few days to digest the whole “latest creation” factoids & now have a question or two about this device.
OS Software Update (similar to OSX or via iTunes only) ?: I was under belief that this device if it’s a replacement for a Netbook would operate on some basis kind of like a cross between OSX & iPhone with certain elements being closed off so that this device can be sold to people who don’t need or wish to fiddle with such items as Finder windows etc. Have realised now based on conversation on “Chit-chat across the Pond” over on the latest Nosillacast that this iPad seems to be more like an iPhone/iPod Touch in that unless we find out otherwise to update the OS it could be necessary to attach the iPad to iTunes & update the software in that manner. That would be unlike updating OSX via a SW update or updating on a Netbook, that would therefore preclude selling this device to those who don’t have a computer available but who are interested in the iPad. Now I know people out there will have relatives who could sync & update on iTunes on their own computer for them, but that would not meet any claim that this device is a Netbook replacement. I would be kinda worried about this if Apple are intimating that this device could have the option to be used on its own, but no such evidence exists on the iPad specs page on Apple.com.
File sharing between apps, will it be allowed ? : Obviously, on a netbook (apart from multi-tasking (background apps running)) it is possible to create a document in one app (e.g Word) and use it in another (Email client). How will this be possible on the iPad if for simplicity reasons, no Finder app is available to navigate to the word-processing document in order to bring it into the Mail app. According to this excellent Roughly Drafted Magazine article the documents created by an app are stored within the installation directory of that app (if you delete the app-the docs related to it are removed also), will the documents be locked into the apps they are created in only ?
Update: Looks like the file sharing question has been answered by macrumors.com here (with thanks to Infinite Loop)
Two questions I wouldn’t mind getting an answer to, but guess will have to wait less than 60 days to find out.
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