The good folks over at AppAdvice have put together an image of what the promo page of the iPhone 4G might look like. If you’ve missed all the leaked specs in the past weeks, look no further than the image after the break.
Apple Quietly Updates the Macbook with a Faster Processor and Longer Battery Life
As we expected last week, Apple has updated the white Macbook and, just like many insiders were claiming, it’s a rather minor update focused on bumping the processor from 2.26 to 2.4 GHz and giving it longer battery life.
Infiniboard for iPad and iPhone: Vertical Pages On Your Springboard
Earlier today we’ve talked about Infinidock, a tweak available in Cydia that lets you put how many icons you want in your iPhone and iPad dock. You can scroll, create pages for dock apps and set a number of apps to have in each page. The developer of this tweak, @chpwn, has developer another cool utility called Infiniboard that allows you to create vertical pages on your home screen.
Mac Sales Up 39% in April
Mac sales have gone under a 39% increase in April 2010, Gene Munster reports basing on the NPD data.
“April NPD data gives us the first sign of the degree to which the iPad cannibalizes iPod or Mac sales,” he writes. “From the early NPD data, it appears that the iPad has a minimal cannibalization impact on Mac sales, and could be slightly cannibalizing iPod sales. Given the [average selling price] (4x) and margin profile of the iPad, we see this as a net positive for Apple’s business.”
As All Things Digital reports though, the iPad won’t really cannibalize the sales of Macs:
“We believe in the long run Mac cannibalization will exist, but will be minimal. Apple has successfully limited the iPad functionality to primarily content consumption, vs. content creation on a Mac. And relative to the iPod, the physical size of an iPad provides a meaningfully different value proposition (portability vs. screen size).”
See the NPD data image below:
[via Fortune]
A Guide to iPad Video Compression for the Web
Great post over at MediaStorm, outlining the best practices for compressing video for the iPad.
Mémoires Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the Memoired giveaway.We also want to thank the Coding Robots developers for the licenses they offered to MacStories readers.
Here are the winners:
Jash Sayani
Christohper Misiano
Clemens Bauer
You’ll receive the promo licenses in your inbox in a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Federico as @viticci
An iPad Controlled Blimp [Video]
I knew all along that the iPad would turn out to be an amazing device, but a blimp controller with integrated cockpit view? No, I didn’t think of that.
The guys over at BreakfastNY.com have created a modified BlimpDuino which is controlled by the iPad’s accelerometer through a custom software which connects to a built in computer. The iPad thus becomes the real controller which also displays what the blimp sees via an attached front camera.
It’s awesome, check out the video after the break.
Foxconn Will Ship 24 Million iPhone 4G Units in 2010
Foxconn is set to ship 24 million units of Apple’s next iPhone in 2010, Digitimes reports.
“According to Digitimes senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers:
Foxconn will ship 4.5 million units in the first half and 19.5 million units for the rest of 2010. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 4G on June 7, 2010 during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
The new device will adopt IPS (in-plane switching) panels with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology and a 960×640 resolution, Kuo said, noting that LG Display and Prime View International are the panel suppliers.
The iPhone 4G will run on the Arm Cortex A8 processor and a 512MB memory module from Samsung Electronics, doubling the memory capacity seen in the iPhone 3GS to take advantage of the multi-tasking capability of the iPhone 4.0 platform, Kuo revealed.”
The question is, will 24 million units be enough or too much for 2010?
Extend Your iPad Dock with Infinidock
With all those extra pixels, I think Apple could have done something more with the iPad dock. You can add more icons than the iPhone, but that’s pretty much it. Fortunately ther are some tweaks in Cydia you can download to enhance the functionality of the iPad dock, and today we’re taking a look at Infinidock from @chpwn.