Great take-apart guide by iFixit. My old Newton 2100 may be the best piece of Apple hardware I ever owned.
Category: Apple
Apple Executives, on the iPad
These are pulled from From Stephen’s Fry’s excellent piece for Time on the iPad and Steve Jobs.
Phil Schiller Senior Vice President Worldwide Product Marketing:
There’s a negative way of saying that, and a positive. ‘Oh, it’s just a big iPhone … boo!’ or ‘Hey, it’s like a big iPhone … cool!’ Luckily, millions of people have those, so there is an instant ease and familiarity when they first encounter the iPad. As for everything else, it’s not about the features — it’s about the experience. You just have to try it to see what I mean.
iPad Apps Appear in iTunes
And my, they look nice.\* Looks like developers aren’t just making “HD” version of their smaller programs — this is a whole new class of apps.
*opens iTunes.
PCMag Posts Great iPad Walk-Through
Be sure to check out their written review, as well.
The First Tablet
Well, I’m here to tell you that in fact, we haven’t seen tablets before. And maybe the iPad is the only true tablet we’ll get in 2010. The hardware we’ve seen in years past, (and what we’re likely to see in these Android devices) are laptop computers with the keyboard section broken off. They’re not fundamentally touch-based computers, they’re the products of old thinking. When Apple looks at a fingertip, they see a warm, living thing that can feel. They don’t see a poor substitute for a mouse.
The Concept
And the techies are right about another thing: the iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on. For most people, manipulating these digital materials directly by touching them is a completely new experience — and a deeply satisfying one.
The bottom line is that the iPad has been designed and built by a bunch of perfectionists. If you like the concept, you’ll love the machine.
File This Under ‘Crazy’
April Fools’ Online Jokes Begin
Most Mac users will most likely remember comments made by Michael Dell during the black period of Apple. But the direction of the wind changed and it now fully blows into Apple sails, leaving Dell in the behind. The company has lost its leadership on the Pc market, and keeps going down, today Apple weights 7 times Dell on the market stocks exchange. But, let’s stop here the introduction to concentrate on this historical day. Apple announced to have acquired Dell for 10 billion USD, and in shares for the remaining capitals at a rate of 6 Dell for 1 Apple, giving a bonus of 12% for Dell shares.
eWorld Shut Down 14 Years Ago Today
System Folder’s Riccardo Mori:
I wasn’t an eWorld subscriber, yet I remember the phenomenon fondly. I believe it was another Apple creation with potential, but the high costs of the service (and perhaps Apple’s lack of belief, too) prevented it from really taking off. Too bad it was just discontinued without morphing it into something that could survive on the Web, Apple could have taken advantage of the faithful eWorlders’ sense of community to expand it online and pioneering today’s social networks, for instance. But I guess it was not the right timeframe for Apple, not in its best of shapes financially.
Gizmodo Explains how to Shatter an iPad
iBooks Only Available on the iPad
From the new iTunes 9.1:
So I guess iTunes isn’t going to server as an e-book reader after all. While I’m sure it has everything to do with licensing ebook content on multiple devices, I find it disappointing that the entire iBook experience is locked to the iPad at this point.
Again, I Ask, Why is Apple’s Secrecy News?
Apple store workers say they have yet to see or touch the iPad, even though the launch is just days away and they are being trained and encouraged to talk about Apple’s newest device with customers.
“We haven’t seen it; we never do” before a product is launched, said one employee, who asked not to be identified because workers are barred from speaking with the media. “Every store employee I know, including the managers, they haven’t seen it.”