An analysis undertaken by RBC Capital Markets looked at a ChangeWave survey of over 3,200 respondents, offering their views on the iPad. While their might be some issues with self-selection bias, the study reveals some interesting features of the consumer reaction to Apple's device. When compared … [Read more...]
ComputerWorld dug up an interesting job posting from Apple, which hints that the company might be looking at porting the iPhone OS to other devices. The posting is for "Engineering Manager (Platform Bring-Up)", and it mentions: The Core Platform team within Apple's Core OS organization is looking … [Read more...]
ngmoco, the game company behind such megahits as Eliminate, TouchPets and Rolando, have raised $25 million, and bought out Freeverse, another major dev team. Freeverse have been involved developing games for Apple products since the mid-1990s, and had significant success on the iPhone with their … [Read more...]
The New York Times managed to get hold of Philip W. Schiller, head of worldwide product marketing at Apple, and get an official line on what's going on with removing the even-vaguely-titillating apps. “It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the … [Read more...]
According to Ashlee Vance at the New York Times, Apple's new A4 ARM chip cost around $1 billion to develop. Yup, that's billion with a b. That's what it costs for companies like Apple, NVidia, and Qualcomm to design, test and build their chips from scratch. Apparently the iPhone was a major step … [Read more...]
Right after the iPad first launched, the demo video of the New York Times included Flash content. Apple quickly pulled this video, saying the content was pre-rendered, and swapped out Flash for that all too familiar little blue block. This morning MacRumors spotted that the old video was back again, … [Read more...]
Apple has just released two new ads for the iPhone 3GS. The first shows off the iPhone's ability to sort-of multitask, because you can still run other apps while connected to a phone call. This might be a slight dig at Verizon, as their network wouldn't allow you to go online while making a … [Read more...]
Get your credit cards ready, because we hear rumor that pre-orders for the iPad are meant to start Thursday. According to AppAdvice, you'll be able to mark yourself down for the Wi-Fi version Thursday, February 25. Unfortunately, 3G won't be available at this point, so we assume the pre-orders for … [Read more...]
Continuing the sweep we saw the beginnings of last week, Apple has been pulling down apps that have even the tiniest bit of titillation. Not content with just hitting softcore porn and bikini apps, Cupertino have yanked apps that feature characters in booty shorts. It's being reported that over … [Read more...]
Mirroring behavior seen twice before, the impending arrival new Apple devices (iPad and the theorized new iPhone) means that flash memory will be hard to come buy globally. This information comes from iSuppli, as reported by AllThingsDigital, who are predicting 33 million iPhones shipped in 2010, … [Read more...]
