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AmpKit LiNK HD guitar interface for iPhone, iPad and Mac

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AmpKit LiNK HD is based on USB digital audio technology, providing high fidelity while eliminating crosstalk and feedback. It’s perfect for AmpKit’s authentic high gain amps.

Some nice features on the LiNK HD. AmpKit is my goto amp software on the iPhone and iPad, so I’ll be interested to see how this interface does. I’m expecting good things though.

New AT&T data plans will launch on Sunday

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AT&T will hike data rates by $5 on all new subscribers: As the AT&T network gets even faster with 4G LTE deployment – up to 10 times faster than 3G – and devices and applications become even more sophisticated, it’s … Continued

Fake Apple iPad 2 made of clay sold in BC

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From CTV News: Retail giants Future Shop and Best Buy have launched a major fraud investigation involving Apple iPad 2s, after as many as 10 fake models made of modelling clay were sold in Metro Vancouver retail stores. Mark Sandhu … Continued

Apple to teach a few things about textbooks

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From the Wall Street Journal: While the notoriously secretive Apple remains mum about its education announcement Thursday at New York’s Guggenheim museum, the company is expected to unveil textbooks optimized for the iPad and that feature ways to interact with … Continued

Review: GuitarJack 2 for iPhone and iPad

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One of the great things about Apple’s iOS devices for musicians is having the ability to play and record our guitar while on the go. When the hardware and software allowing us to do this was first introduced, we gave the companies a little leeway on the quality just so we could play. […]

Dating site for Apple fans gets an iPhone app

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Diehard Mac & Apple fans often have a lot in com­mon — per­son­al­i­ties, cre­ative pro­fes­sions, a sim­i­lar sense of style and aes­thet­ics, taste, and a love for tech​nol​ogy. As Apple fans we love to hang out in cafés with our Mac­books and iPhones. Cupidtino is like that neigh­bor­hood café where the peo­ple are hip, decor is classy, con­ver­sa­tion is intel­li­gent and prices are rea­son­able. But it’s open at your con­ve­nience, folks are from around the world, and it’s less awk­ward to talk to someone.

If you’re going to meet someone with common interests, why not start off with an Apple fan.

Google’s Schmidt not convinced Android is fragmented

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“Differentiation is positive, fragmentation is negative,” Schmidt said during an appearance here at the Consumer Electronics Show. “Differentiation means that you have a choice and the people who are making the phones, they’re going to compete on their view of innovation, and they’re going to try and convince you that theirs is better than somebody else.”

I’m a total loss for words.

You can ignore CES

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The Atlantic:

We broke down the trajectories of 17 tablets from CES 2011. In the final tally, I think you could say one is a qualified success (the Asus Eee Pad Transformer), one did OK (the Motorola XOOM), and several flopped (Dell Streak, RIM Playbook) or made no impact (Coby Kyrus, Cydle M7 Multipad, Naxa NID-7001). Nine never were heard from again.This is why it’s OK to ignore CES. Most of the product announcements (the majority in this case) lead nowhere, and if some product is really important, you’ll hear about it via some other avenue.

Ouch.

Dell to release a tablet in late 2012

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Reuters:

The once-dominant corporation founded by Michael Dell has seen a growing crop of tablets and smartphones entice consumers away from PCs. But Dell learned from the hastiness of some of its peers and understands better now how consumers value the “ecosystem” of a tablet as much as the hardware, chief commercial officer Steve Felice said.

Good that Dell finally realized what Apple knew for years — ecosystem counts.

Kodak sues Apple, HTC

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Kodak claims Apple’s iPhones, iPads, and iPods, and some of HTC’s smartphones and tablets use Kodak patents for transmitting images. Kodak is seeking to prevent further patent infringement from Apple and HTC as well as compensation.

Kodak is on its last leg.

Ferraris and Fords

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The consumer electronics market in 2012 can be easily summed up as Ferraris and Fords. Apple, of course, is the Ferrari of the tech market, while the competition is the Ford.

I’m not talking about speed, but rather the outlook on similar markets. […]

Market share and developers

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There’s no question in my mind that the most appealing thing about Android as a platform is its overall market share. The more Android devices that are out there, in use, the more appealing the platform is for developers. But to think that market share alone is a primary motivation for all or even most of the developers who’ve turned the iOS App Store into a phenomenon is to miss the forest for the trees.

Bingo!

CES is a parade of Apple ripoffs

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Daniel Ionescu:

Apple is not taking part in the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas but is present at the trade show through rip-offs of its products. From MacBook Air-inspired ultrabooks, to iPad-like tablets, smart TVs, and cloud computing technology, you will find clones of Apple’s product lineup at CES 2012—and this is just a taste of what’s coming up at the show this week.

If there is any doubt about how much influence Apple has in the industry, this should put it to rest.

Definition of a tech migraine

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That pain execs at HTC, Samsung, Google and RIM get when Apple announces a new product or initiative.

These are things they don’t want to blatantly copy, but because they want to keep up with Apple, they blatantly copy them anyway.

Apple didn’t invent ______, but Apple made it better

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Every time you mention the fact that another loser competitor copied Apple, you always get the argument that “Apple didn’t invent that.” That may be true, but let’s look at some of the things that Apple didn’t invent, but made better. […]

Acer commits most blatant ripoff of Apple yet

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Acer came up with a good idea. Let’s put pics, documents and media in the cloud and make them available to all of your devices… oh wait, that’s called iCloud. No matter, we’ll just steal the idea and call it AcerCloud. Oh and to save time, we might as well steal Apple’s presentation slide too […]

iPad users download 3 billion apps since launch

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iPad users are estimated to have cumulatively downloaded three billion applications since the launch of the iPad in 2010. This was 19% of all cumulative downloads by Apple users. The iPhone took as long as two years before being able to achieve this level of downloads, while the iPad made it within nearly a year and a half. In comparison, Android tablets only have around 440 million downloads thus far.

WOOHOO, Android is winning. Oh wait…

Apple legal targets App Store piracy

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Cult of Mac:

Apple has begun an attack on App Store piracy. The popular resource for cracked iOS apps known as Apptrackr recently said that Apple has begun sending large amounts of takedown notices, thereby forcing Apptrackr to relocate many of its servers and implement more steps for its users to avoid legal ramifications.

Good for Apple.

Instashuffle

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Many thanks to Instashuffle for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop. Instashuffle is a way to browse Instagram in an endless image stream. And it is now free. On the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 5 and later.

Kindle sales: The devil is in the details

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Marco Arment:

In fact, all Amazon has said is:
  • They’ve sold at least 4 million Kindles, total, this month.
  • The Kindle Fire is the top-selling model.
But the Kindle has between 5 and 10 models, depending on how Amazon counts them.

The devil is in the details.

Businesses will flock to iPads in 2012

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“The iPad, just as it is in the consumer market, is synonymous for ‘Tablet’ in the business market,” he wrote in Thursday’s e-mailed press release, “leaving Apple poised to take advantage of the increased spending intentions of these SMBs. NPD’s research shows that iPad purchase preference is higher among larger firms than smaller ones, which is an important indicator that Apple is gaining traction far outside its typical consumer space.”