iPad

Not everyone does big-ass magazines

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Craig Grannell:

The net result is that Tap! looks great on the new iPad, largely because it’s using native text rather than rendering to flat images.

Nice.

Big-ass iPad magazines

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Michael Mulvey:

How about publishers stop making their magazines a big, fucking stack of PNGs and start to use actual text. The kind of text you can select and copy and paste. And look up in in-app dictionaries.

Exactly. Magazine publishers that use giant PNG images just don’t give a shit about their customers.

iPad battery sanity

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Lex Friedman:

Your new iPad’s battery is fine. Despite some media reports suggesting that Apple’s newest tablet suffers from a pair of battery-related issues, Macworld’s own research concludes that the third-generation iPad’s battery works as designed, and that customers needn’t fear harming the battery by over-charging it.

Ampkit 1.3

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AmpKit is the ultimate guitar amps, effects and recording app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, now with iPad Retina display graphics and an even greater selection of gear in the Gear Store, including the first full-featured, modern bass amp … Continued

Consumer Reports gets torched over iPad tests

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Adam Satariano for Bloomberg:

To many, the incident showed Consumer Reports is now chasing page-views on the Web instead of actually doing a public service.

Satariano quoted me, Marco Arment and MG Siegler.

New petition asks Change.org to retract its petition against Apple

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The original petition is based on the testimony of Mike Daisey which has been shown to be primarily fabrications and fantasy. The power and efficacy of Change.org is diminished by allowing petitions that are based on lies.Apple is already doing more for worker rights in China than any just about any other IT company that deals with Chinese suppliers and they have been acting responsibly since well before anyone else took notice.

I kid you not people, this shit just writes itself.

Microsoft tablet freezes during Windows 8 stage demo

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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system might have a new look – but it certainly has something in common with previous versions of the operating system.During a demonstration of the new ‘Metro’ tablet control system, a demonstration unit ‘froze’.

Giving users a taste of what they’re in for.

iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days

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Apple told me today that its newest iOS app, iPhoto, hit 1 million users in less than 10 days after its release. It’s important to note that figure is users, not downloads. It quite possible that one user downloaded the app multiple times, but Apple isn’t counting that, only the unique users. […]

Microsoft bans purchases of Macs and iPads

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Mary Jo Foley:

Microsoft’s Sales, Marketing, Services, IT, & Operations Group (SMSG) may be putting in place a policy to prevent employees from using corporate funds to buy Macs and iPads.

Makes sense. If you’re going to make users suffer, why not force employees to suffer too.

John Gruber on Mike Daisey

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Daisey impugned the integrity of Apple — and the journalism of ABC News — in order to work people up regarding problems that don’t exist. This only served to draw attention away from the labor, health, and environmental issues in Apple’s Asian supply chain that do exist.

Great read from John.

Middle school science with iPad temperatures

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John Gruber on these heat tests going around today:

As Alex Dedalus points out on Twitter, to say this is a crap headline is give crap headlines a bad name.

This is great stuff.

Basil: A smart recipe book for iPad

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Because Basil organizes your recipes for you, you can spend more time cooking rather than organizing them. Each new recipe is tagged with its main ingredients, and adding cuisine and meal type is fast too, so your recipes are always organized. You can find just the recipe you’re looking for by sorting according to cuisine type, meal type, or main ingredients. Or you can just search them, using full-text search.

Great looking app. Best of luck to Kyle on the launch.

Apple responds to supposed iPad heat issues

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There have been a couple of stories on the Internet in the past few days that say the iPad runs a bit hotter than its predecessor. Apple on Tuesday responded. “The new iPad delivers a stunning Retina display, A5X chip, … Continued

Apple packaging

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Anthony Kay:

But with Apple things are different. They don’t just use an ugly cardboard box with their logo and a few stickers slapped on it. They actually give a great deal of thought to the design of the box itself. They think about what it looks like on the shelf, how it presents the contents to the purchaser, and what the experience will be like when you open it.

Exactly right. The Apple experience begins at the store when the product is still on the shelf.

Innovator’s Dilemma

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Simon Ly:

Essentially it turns around Apple’s complete willingness to destroy its own revenues. It built a phone that destroyed it’s major source of revenue, the iPod. It built Macbook Airs that have now disrupted another major source of revenue, their Macbook Pros. It built the iPad, which is already beginning to disrupt the Macbook itself.

Apple also killed off the iPod mini at the height of its popularity and introduced the iPod nano in its place. That completely disrupted the competition because at that time they were all trying to copy the mini.

The iPad of 1935

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Smithsonian:

The April, 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics included this nifty invention which was to be the next logical step in the world of publishing. Basically a microfilm reader mounted on a large pole, the media device was supposed to let you sit back in your favorite chair while reading your latest tome of choice.

Don’t show this to Michael Dell. He might think it’s a good idea and start making them.

Boombotix wireless speakers for iPhone and iPod

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The BB2 wireless speaker fuses Japanese urban design with mobile audio in a truly portable package. All Boombots are rechargeable, loud as &@*%, and durable enough to withstand the abuse of your lifestyle, guaranteed.

Dell wants to challenge Apple in the tablet market

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Reuters:

As Apple’s third-generation iPad went on sale on Friday, accompanied by the now traditional scenes of fans queuing round the block , Dell’s chief commercial officer Steve Felice said the tablet market was still wide open.

I kid you not, I actually laughed out loud reading this. How many times does Apple have to lay the smackdown on Dell before they finally go away.

Ass clowns

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Colin Crawford talking about IDC’s predictions for iPad and Android tablet growth:

While I’ve a lot of respect for IDC’s ability to identify key market trends, especially in the Enterprise IT market…

Wait for it…

…but I’m not convinced they have their finger on the pulse of the Apple iPad market nor Apple’s iOS strategy.

Translation: Ass clowns.