While that’s impressive on its own,, these facts mean Apple’s got one hell of a future:
63% of those aged 18–34 and 35–49 own Apple products, while only 50% of the 50–64 group do, and 26% among those 65 and older.
61% of households with children own an Apple product, versus 48% in those without kids.
Vivek Gowri & Anand Lal Shimpi:
The new iPad is externally very similar to the iPad 2, but my feeling is that there’s a much larger step in usability from the iPad 2 to the new iPad than there was from the original to the iPad 2. It’s a difference that has nothing to do with form factor and everything to do with the Retina Display. The iPad 2 took the original iPad and made it better or more refined in every way - thinner, lighter, faster - but the experience didn’t change radically. The Retina Display represents a fundamental change in how you visually interact with the device. The display is really the center of a tablet’s experience, and with a display that drastically improved, the experience is correspondingly better.
The new Apple iPad is kind of a paradox: At the same time it’s both the best possible tablet you can buy, and yet, it’s a disappointment. It retained the crown with an incremental performance bump.
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Apple needs something that fundamentally changes the iPad. It needs something that makes the iPad a different, better sort of object, rather than just a refined one. Look, everyone’s a critic. We’re trying some constructive criticism—a wish list of ideas for a new iPad that actually feels new.
“Penis iron” is all you need to know about his post.
Oh, and that HP CEO Meg Whitman is more valuable to her company than Tim Cook is to Apple.
When I said onstage that I had personally experienced things I in fact did not, I failed to honor the contract I’d established with my audiences over many years and many shows. In doing so, I not only violated their trust, I also made worse art.
This is not the place for me to try and explain my good intentions. We all know where the road paved with good intentions leads. In fact, I think it might lead to where I’m sitting right now.
I agree with Josh on this — can’t we all just move on?
Does new iPad gets warm? Yes.
Does it feel less like the future when its warm? Yes.
Is it uncomfortable to hold? No.
Does it ever get hot? No.
Do I regret my purchase? No.
Joshua Schnell over at Macgasm:
An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis, the new Apple TV UI was not only on the table at Apple years ago, but Steve Jobs alledgedly shot it down because he didn’t like it at the time.
(Here’s the tweet.)
Joshua Topolsky, for The Washington Post:
Mike Daisey is not a hero, but I’m not sure he’s a villain either.
He leaned into his lies to sell tickets to a show, to get on network TV, to make money and get famous. But along the way — either on purpose or by accident — he opened a lot of eyes.
And that’s the truth.
Apple’s Supplier Responsibility reports are factual and easy to understand.
The new iPad delivers a stunning Retina display, A5X chip, support for 4G LTE plus 10 hours of battery life, all while operating well within our thermal specifications. If customers have any concerns they should contact AppleCare.
As I noted in my review, this new iPad is the first I’ve owned that gets warm at all, but it isn’t bad at all. I don’t think I’d ever consider it hot, even after an hour of gaming.
Hot on the heels of This American Life’s Mike Daisey takedown, Apple has revised its Supplier Responsibility homepage to reflect its latest monthly update (as promised) about working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. The company says that over 500,000 workers actually worked less during a peak iPad production month thanks to rules laid out in its Supplier Code of Conduct. Instead of 60-hour work weeks like they’d been accustomed to (the maximum inside Apple’s Code), workers actually averaged closer to 48 hour work weeks during February 2012.