Apple Design
Jony Ive talks about functional design. Cut from the documentary Objectified. www.objectifiedfilm.com
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Apple to Introduce New High-speed Connection with Next Macbooks, Possibly Light Peak [Apple]
Apple to Introduce New High-speed Connection with Next Macbooks, Possibly Light Peak [Apple]
CNET is reporting that Apple will introduce a new high-speed connection technology with either their upcoming MacBook Pro or another product altogether. Supposedly, the technology is actually Intel’s Light Peak technology, which is expected to replace the various cables that connect multiple devices (your display, usb etc). Light Peak is originally fiber optic-esque but Apple will actually be …
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The Consensus Opinion on Apple: Mostly Bullish
A look at some of the key sentiment drivers for Apple.
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Apple In-App Subscription Conflict Raises Antitrust Ghosts
Apple’s current controversy over its new in-app subscription policy recalls antitrust whispers that greeted the company’s past adventures in rule-setting.
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Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station
- Simultaneous dual-band wireless base station supports 802.11b/g and 802.11n
- USB 2.0 port lets you connect and wirelessly share a hard drive and/or printer
- Three GigaBit Ethernet ports
- Guest networking for easy sharing of your internet connection with temporary guests
- Measures 6.5 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches; backed by a one-year warranty
Product Description
The sleek, easy-to-use AirPort Extreme Base Station with simultaneous dual-band support is the perfect wireless access point for home, school, or small business. It offers fast, 802.11n Wi-Fi access for Mac computers, PCs, and Wi-Fi devices such as iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV.Amazon.com Product Description
The new AirPort Extreme is the perfect wireless solution for home, school, and small business. With higher speeds and greater range, the AirPort Ex… More >>
New Apple Ipad Launching April 3 – Apple Ipad Features, Get Free Apple Ipad
New Apple Ipad Launching April 3 – Apple Ipad Features
Get a Free Apple Ipad on Launch
Apple Ipad has a large, high-resolution LED-backlit IPS display. An incredibly responsive Multi-Touch screen. And an amazingly powerful Apple-designed chip. All in a design that’s thin and light enough to take anywhere. iPad isn’t just the best device of its kind. It’s a whole new kind of device.
The iPad has so many features which make it unique. These components include:
Multi-touch screen which works in either a horizontal or vertical orientation. This capability allows various uses of applications that other devices do not.
Email can be accessed, scrolled through, composed or deleted with ease no matter which orientation you choose to use.
Unique software features allow viewing your photographs in sharp, vivid color. You can even import pictures from your camera using the optional connection kit.
Watch videos on the iPad’s high resolution screen at your leisure.
Listen to all of your favorite music by using the iPod application. By just tapping a finger your music can be heard through the quality built-in speaker.
Enjoy your own personal library at your fingertips. With the iBooks application downloading, storing or reading your books has never been easier.
The iPad also offers all of the conveniences of a personal digital assistant. You can take notes to store for future reference, schedule events on the calendar or compile all of your contacts conveniently in the iPad. You can even use the maps feature to find directions or search for restaurants. These features make the iPad an indispensable device ready to help in organizing all of your important data.
It’s hard to believe all of these features fit into such a thin and lightweight tablet. Weighing only one and one-half pounds, the iPad is only one-half inch thick. The ease of portability is amazing, especially with the lithium-polymer battery which allows users up to ten hours of use without charging.
One last incredible feature the iPad has to offer is the price. Starting at $499.00, this compact tablet computer offers not only quality but value
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The Apple Ipad – A New Category Of Device For The Semantic Age
On Wednesday Apple introduced the iPad – a 9.7 inch multi-touch device that bridges the gap between computers and smart phones. They have priced it very aggressively with the basic 16gb Wi-Fi model starting at $499 and the 64GB 3G model topping out at $829.
As technology becomes increasingly pervasive in all our lives we need to be able to interact with it more efficiently. Computers are okay when you’re at your desk, but there’s so many times when you need to access the web where turning on your computer is too time consuming and your smart phone interface is too fiddly to use (yes even on the iPhone).
What is the semantic web?
The web we know today is designed for humans. We can efficiently navigate between 1000s of databases and accomplish tasks that would have been really time consuming only a few years ago, but these databases are not designed for machines so we often find ourselves have to struggle to interact with many systems to achieve what are, in principle, simple tasks.
Let’s look at an example.
The iPad on the move in the semantic age
In semantic age I might use my iPad as a GPS device in my car.
I jump in my car at 10am and select my destination from my address book, it’s a 4-hour journey so the iPad asks if I want to stop for lunch on the way. I choose a time and place that will be a nearby at 1pm and we set off.
As I set off it queries the database at trafficmaster.co.uk to check for any areas that are moving slower than unusual and picks the best route based on the time of day I am travelling.
To keep me entertained, it chooses some music for me using my last.fm profile: cross referencing the time of day with the kind of music I typically play.
It already knows how much fuel I have in my car because every time I fill up it makes a note of how far I travelled since the last stop and it checks my credit card statement to see how much fuel I put in. Looks like I don’t have enough fuel to get where I’m going so it asks petrolprices.com where it can find the cheapest petrol on-route taking into account the cost of the detour – it just saved me eight quid by taking me on a ten-minute diversion.
As I cross into the congestion charging zone my it pays my fees for me right away – no sense waiting: it doesn’t get any cheaper.
I arrive at my destination effortlessly and pull into the nearby council car park. After stopping for a few seconds it asks if I would like to pay for parking and how long I plan to stay. My account is debited and Boris is happy.
And just for good measure, my iPad noticed that one of my friends, whom I haven’t seen for a while, is also in town today; so we exchanged emails and meet up for a coffee.
So with just a score-or-fewer taps on my iPad I have completed an array of database interactions that would take me the best part of an hour to achieve using today’s technology.All of these things are possible using current devices (an iPhone or another GPS enabled smart phone) but the human has to do all the heavy lifting. As the web evolves all these systems will be able to talk to one another and we will be free to sit back and enjoy ride.
More little tasks for us
Technology is providing us with an ever-increasing array of systems to make things “easier”. But it all adds up to more and more little tasks for us to do. More things I can’t be bothered to turn my computer on for.
The iPad is a great advance in human-machine interfacing. It’s a natural way to accomplish all these little tasks with a lot less effort, with a device you can have to hand and that is already sitting in standby mode waiting.
What the iPad is
The iPad does everything most people do on their computers every day. The “average user” doesn’t need vast amounts of storage or processing power, they just want to browse the web, watch a movie and send a few emails. If Apple are to be believed the iPad does all these things better than a computer. And let’s face it – the interface of the modern computer has only had one major evolution in 50 years – the addition of a mouse wheel.
The iPad doesn’t do anything new – like the iPhone it does everything people really want but better. If you have used the multi-touch track pad on the latest MacBooks you will already have an insight into how slick this thing is going to be.
People will tell you that you can get all this in other devices with higher specs and lower prices – but that doesn’t mean a thing. I bought a MacBook Air – the lowest specced and highest priced laptop on the market – because it did exactly what I needed perfectly, millions of people have chosen the iPhone over more powerful devices for the same reason.
What’s missing?
I can image a device like this would be perfect for iChat video calls with the family that you can make casually wherever you find yourself instead of sat in front of a desktop computer. A device like that would finally bring video calls into the mainstream.
But I guess they have to save something to make people upgrade in 18 months time.
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Apple won’t change antenna for Verizon iPhone, says expert
Apple won’t change antenna for Verizon iPhone, says expert
If an iPhone does appear on Verizon, don’t expect Apple to change its antenna design, an expert said today.
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How Good Is The Htc Hd2 Smartphone Pda Can It Beat Apple Iphone
HTC HD2 delivers an experience your senses have been waiting for. The unprecedented 4.3-inch pixel-packed display is stunning. The world’s first capacitive touch technology on a Windows® phone along with 1 GHz processing power ensure a smooth and lightning-fast response to the lightest touch of your finger.
Most importantly, it is our first Windows phone to embody HTC Sense™ – a holistic experience that focuses on making phones work in the most intuitive way. HTC Sense is based on three core principles – make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected.
HTC HD2′s expansive display is like a canvas on which you create a phone that is just right for you. Customize the phone by prioritizing essential features like mail, also Outlook e-mail, outlook calendar, messaging, browser and more. Next, with just a tap, put shortcuts to the most important people, favorite websites, or most used application right on the home screen. And if you feel like something is still missing, visit Windows® Marketplace for Mobile, and install fun and useful applications. Just a quick note about the windows market place it is not as good as Apple apps but they are adding more and more each day.
Your phone doesn’t only reflect your personality; it also tunes into your location. The clock automatically updates to the local time wherever you are. You can see the outside temperature and weather at a glance. And, if you choose the weather wallpaper, you’ll get a brilliantly lifelike animation that lets you virtually feel the sun’s rays or the chill of the breeze without setting a foot outside. I must say the interface is just brilliant very visual and easy to navigate about.
Stay Close
With HTC HD2, communication is focused around people rather than applications, so all of your interactions like email, SMS, phone logs, and even updates from Facebook are all in one place. Right where your instinct tells you to look – next to the photo of the person with whom you want to stay in touch with.
In business, a phone call often has the power to prevent a mile-long pile up of inconclusive emails. HTC HD2 makes it simple to go from reading an email to calling the sender. All it takes is a single tap on the large phone icon right from the email. And if you need to get everyone involved in the discussion – just tap next to the images of everyone to create an instant conference call.
Forget the challenge of jumping from your calendar to your phone application while trying to find and memorize the number for your next conference call. On HTC HD2, conference call reminders conveniently appear with a big dial button ready for you to press, even the PIN is displayed, so you’ll never miss out on the latest strategy session.
Discover the Unexpected
Some design features of HTC HD2 are far better experienced than can be explained in mere words. Like the ringer volume level that immediately scales down when the phone detects that you have picked it up, or the display that automatically adjusts to the light level in your surroundings and turns off to prevent false screen touches during a call.
HTC HD2 is built for pure finger touch control. Zoom in and out of documents, web pages, pictures or emails with just a simple pinch. Type up responses faster and more accurately on the large onscreen keyboard. The capacitive touch experience combined with an interface optimized for the spacious display, lets you easily adjust the settings, set up calendar appointments, browse through photos, and navigate through menus with only the touch of a finger.
Carry the HTC HD2 in your pocket and you’ll never have to worry about finding a Wi-Fi access point for your laptop. Your phone simply connects to superfast 3.5G cellular networks and becomes your personal wireless access point – anytime, anywhere.
HTC HD2 has you covered when it comes to taking and viewing pictures wherever you may be. The 5 megapixel auto-focus camera is perfect for capturing the beauty of the great outdoors; combined with the dual LED flash it’s also ideal for capturing images in dim conditions. And when you’re ready to move from behind the lens and start sharing your collection, you’ll dazzle your audience with the large beautifully displayed pictures in the new river-flow gallery.
I must say I have used this Smartphone from HTC for about 2 months and absolutely love the phone it it looks brilliant the touch screen works very well. Setting up e-mails is very easy.
Final verdict if you like gadget type phones then this is a must to have if you want a business Smartphone again it is truly outstanding mobile phone.
So to go back to my original question is this Smartphone good enough to take Apple iPhone of the top of the best mobile phones the answer a big yes Apple should be getting quite worried now I think the iPhone is getting a bit dated now look what’s coming around the corner in mid April 2010 Sony Ericsson Google phone is being released.
I do hope you liked reading my article please do leave your comments thanks.
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Apple manager charged with taking kickbacks
Apple manager charged with taking kickbacks
A manager at Apple Inc has been charged in California with taking kickbacks he received after leaking corporate secrets to Asian companies that supplied iPhone and iPod accessories, court documents showed.
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