The ultimate post over at TUAW, which involves using the popular RCDefaultApp. Finally, we’ve got this thing working.
Omnigraffle for iPad Will Be Available On Day One…at $49.99
Tyler Tschida of AppAdvice:
“OmniGraffle, one of the company’s flagship applications, has already been submitted and approved by Apple, and will be available for iPad App Store’s grand opening on April 3rd.
OmniGraffle, an app normally available for Mac OS X for $99.95, will be hitting the App Store for $49.99. That price may sound a bit high, but OmniGraffle for the iPad should offer nearly the same experience that the Mac OS X version offers, just with touch controls and a reworked interface. The feature set seems quite extensive as it offers the same automatic layouts and “Smart guides” as the desktop app, and allows PDF export along with the ability to open your creations on OmniGraffle for Mac.”
Look, I can pass along on Omnifocus for iPhone priced at $19.99 (but it’s difficult to accept) but, seriously, 50 bucks? They’d better build a hell of an app, otherwise they’ll just be another dev team who aims at making a truckload of money from the iPad, using the bigger screen as an excuse. We’ll see.
Latest Opera Snapshot Renders Fonts with Core Graphics
Smoother than Safari (sometimes).
iPad Version of Wall Street Journal Will Cost $17.99 A Month
Gizmodo quotes an article from the official WSJ blog:
“WSJ has reported on itself by saying that “according to a person familiar with the matter,” their monthly iPad subscription will cost $17.99 a month.”
Furthermore, on advertising:
“The WSJ article also addresses advertising on the iPad—apparently Time magazine will debut its iPad version with adverts from Unilever, Toyota, Fidelity Investments and three other companies, with each ad said to be setting them back $200,000 for the full first eight issues. Meanwhile, Wired magazine will offer a little extra something for advertisers who buy eight pages of ads for each issue—with video and “extra features” promised.”
While $18 for a monthly subscription sounds a little bit high to me, at least it’s a start.
The Robot Touchscreen Analysis
And the winner is…
Spreads for iPad: A new Way to Be Informed
We all know that the iPad is gonna change the way we consume media, though we still don’t know how exactly. Sure the first step will be iBooks, with newspapers and magazines to follow with iPad specific apps and subscription services. But back to where we are now, what about RSS feeds? Yeah, those things you’re likely to use with Google Reader which should have been died 2 years ago but they’re still here. I honestly don’t see RSS completely die anytime soon, I’m more orientated towards an evolution and change and maybe - I don’t know much about it at this time - Spreads for iPad will contribute to this change.
Messenger for Mac 8 Beta Now Available
Now with audio and video calls.
iBooks Pricing Leaked, Matches Amazon’s Kindle
AppAdvice has just posted what it seems a real screenshot of the iBookstore, the place where we’ll be able to purchase our iBooks as soon as the iPad goes out. Well, it turns out that despite Apple taking its usual 30% of revenue from each download, the prices will be similar to Amazon’s Kindle ones - and this could be a real game changer for Apple.
Bad news for Amazon.
Five Factors Contributing to Google’s “Demise”
The second one is worth a mention here:
“Google is having trouble making money from anything but search, which is why, he says, hardly a week goes by without word of another Google innovation. “Last week it was Google broadband. This week it’s Google TV. It’s all a big joke. Even Android is a joke.”