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The WWDC is almost here, and you can spot the typical Apple excitement all over the web. After all, Steve Jobs promised that we wouldn’t be disappointed this year, and he better come up with something great. Like a new iPhone. Like a OS 4 preview on the iPad. Like new Macbooks. Like a last Get a Mac ad.
You think we’re asking too much? We’ve collected 7 WWDC related videos that can give you a quick idea of what happened in the past. Check them out after the break.
Lexcycle has released an update to their popular book reader for iPhone, Stanza. The new 3.0 version comes as a free universal update that introduces many new features such as native iPad support, PDF / Comic Book Archive / DjVu compatibility and iTunes file sharing.
Thanks everyone who entered our giveaways in the past week. We’d also like to thank all the developers who offered their products to MacStories readers, so be sure to drop a “thank you” in case you’ve won something!
Anyway, you’ll find the winners after the break. Congratulations!
Apple is hanging banners for the WWDC at the Moscone Center. We’ve gathered some photos from Twitter and Flickr, check them out after the break.
Also, stay tuned for our live coverage post on MacStories later today.
Mike Rundle nails it over at Flyosity:
“If someone is trying to understand why Apple products do well and they’re putting them in a feature comparison matrix against competitors, they’re already doing it wrong. When the iPod first launched it famously had “less space than a Nomad” but it ended up dominating the industry. The specs for Nokia’s high-end smartphones blow the iPhone’s away but their U.S. market sales are abysmal and almost non-existent. The iPad doesn’t compare well against a netbook in a feature-to-feature lineup but it has over 2,000,000 sales in less than 2 months.
Apple’s products sell because they focus on the overall user experience and how people actually use the device, from when they buy it in an Apple Store to the first time they open the lid on a MacBook Pro all the way through its lifetime. Apple treats each product as something special by itself; a treat for the person who bought it. Even the cheapest iPod nano has beautifully-executed packaging while other companies throw their most expensive products in a cheap, brown, cardboard box.”
I wonder if this concept can be applied to any other company competing with Apple. Is there a game you can’t Microsoft at? Is there a game you can’t beat Dell at? Samsung, Nokia and other follow.
The very last competitor Apple has to tear down is prejudice.
UPDATE: And…it’s back up. That was fast.
What’s going on with the iPad 3G + Wifi 64GB model in Canada? We’ve just noticed that the mode has been removed from the Store. The picture of the unit is simply not there anymore, as you can see in the screenshot after the break.
OnLive is a game streaming service that will allow you to play videogames over the internet, without the need of installing them on your local machine. You’ll have to pay a monthly subscription fee, have a decent internet connection and you’ll be ready to play any game available on the platform. You can run OnLive both on a computer using a browser plugin or on your TV by purchasing a micro set-top box. It’s a revolutionary service, and it’s launching on June 17th during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). We can’t wait.
Now that the iPad has gone international, expect to see more posts like this one. I mean, I can’t wait to see what Italian people can come up with. In the meantime though, the owners of a restaurant in Sydney (the Global Mundo Tapas in the North Sydney Rydges Hotel) have decided to stop using printed menus and adopt iPads instead.
