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“It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers.”

..said the company who controls Flash.

Enough for the rumors and rambling, we wanted to give you an overview of how blogs reacted to the new device.

Here’s what the internet is saying about the tablet iPad.

Daring Fireball - The iPad Big Picture

“Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. There aren’t many companies in the world that can say that. And from what I saw today, Apple doesn’t just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world. Software aside (which is a huge thing to put aside), it may well be that no other company could make a device today matching the price, size, and performance of the iPad. They’re not getting into the CPU business for kicks, they’re getting into it to kick ass.”

Information Architects -  The iPad and the Publishing Industry

“Fact is, if it is even easier to read on a tablet than on a paper, I don’t see any reason why I should continue to buy books. “

Pentagram  - Five Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design

“The new iPad from Apple, presented in typical Steve Jobs fashion as game-changing, will, in fact, revolutionize the way we read magazines. Combining the rich visual content of a print publication, the ever-changing immediacy of a website, and the portability of an e-book reader, the iPad is something new.”

Mossberg - First Impressions of the New Apple iPad

“It’s about the software, stupid. While all sorts of commentators were focusing on how much Apple’s new $499 iPad tablet computer looks like an oversized iPhone, the key to whether it can be the first multi-function tablet to win wide public acceptance probably lies in whether consumers perceive it as a suitable replacement for a laptop in key scenarios. And that, in my view, depends heavily on the software and services that flow through its handsome little body.”

Guardian - Can the Apple iPad save newspapers?

“If Steve Jobs would save journalism, it might be possible that publishers would get him the Holy Grail.”

LifeHacker - The Problem with the Apple iPad

“For most people, netbooks have very limited sex appeal. There’s no question they do what they’re supposed to do, or that they do it well, but last I checked, the netbook hasn’t really filled that “When you just need a lightweight computer to do some lightweight surfing, word processing, etc.” need. The iPad is aiming straight at this market, and could potentially succeed where netbooks haven’t.”

MacWorld - The iPad’s five best surprises

“The iPad’s huge screen—which has the potential to be great for working with email and text—and the announcement of iWork for iPad (see my next item) had several Macworld editors crossing their fingers that Apple wouldn’t hold back on this obvious feature. This time around, Apple didn’t disappoint. “

Stephen Fry - iPad About

“You may or may not be in the queue for an iPad in March, April, May or June. Or you may decide to stay your hand for version 2.0 or 3.0. But believe me the iPad is here to stay and nothing will be quite the same again. “

What’s your take? Let us know.

So, we decided to avoid the usual “specs & features” post and start writing an in-depth post for tomorrow. In the meantime, I aggregated some of the best videos from the web and embedded right into this post, so that you can watch them before the keynote videos goes online.

Enjoy!

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Technology moves forward everyday, but good ideas stay. That’s what I think everyday when I review a good application, and when I see the effort a developer puts in creating something good for the users. Now, what could ever happen if a good idea meets the technology of the future and even brings some eye candy to it?

SublimeVideo is the greatest example of what I’m talking about. It’s a video player, based on HTML5 that shows an amazing attention to the user interface design and even brings a lot of innovations. Developed by Jilion, SublimeVideo it’s currently a demo, but it already allows you to watch the video in full window mode: Vimeo and Youtube don’t let you do that, and their HTML5 video players are slow and buggy. Also, the Jilion guys promise to implement the full screen mode with the next releases (by alt-clicking the video, only available in the WebKit Nightlies now).

SublimeVideo

But Sublime doesn’t stop at full screen goodness: it’s got sleek in / out transitions, gorgeous controllers (even more beautiful than QuickTime’s ones), live resizing and a draggable. It’s basically a sexier QuickTime that uses HTML5.

Be sure to check it out, and follow the updates from the Jilion guys. This is going to be awesome.

Some weird things happened tonight. If you’ve been following @Jason on Twitter you might have noticed that he posted a lot of tweets regarding the Tablet, saying that he’s been under NDA until midnight, but that the agreement was over and he could talk. Unfortunately he didn’t post any pic. But checking Jason’s timeline I noticed he was talking with @MattPRD about tablet upgrades, builds and apps: specific stuff.

Here are some tweets:

“@Jason DM me your Apple ID. I want to test the Tablet’s video conferencing.” Link

“@Jason No? Does Chess come native in the upgrade? I want them to unlock the store so I can get the Ustream Broadcaster.” Link

“@MattPRD I got chess in build 1.02b – did u upgrade?” Link

Turns out this Matt Schlicht guy (@MattPRD) was in the same “beta testing” group of @Jason, and he has been testing the device for the device. And tonight he posted a photo of the tablet saying:

“It’s past midnight, no longer under NDA. Had an amazing video chat with @Jason via Apple Tablet.” Link

What really makes me think is that these two people are well known enterpreneurs, so I don’t see the reason they should be creating fake rumors and photos.

But at least, this time we’ve got 4 hours left to find out the truth.

Coming Soon. Banner by the super awesome dude Matthew Rex Downham.

Going live tomorrow at 9am Pacific Time Zone. We’ll have live updates and pictures, guest contributors and iPhone giveaways.

Add this page to your bookmarks and come back for the awesome-st live chat ever.

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I told you on Twitter we were organizing something great for the event, and here it is. MacStories will offer a live chat for the Apple event, starting 60 minutes before the event. So it will be 9 am Pacific Time, or 6 pm GMT+1.

Why should you follow MacStories live coverage anyway, instead of - say - Gizmodo’s one?

I think you should follow both, actually. Sure, we’ll take care of posting the live updates and pictures, but we’ve got some special stuff you won’t find anywhere else. First, famous developers and designers will contribute to the live chat. I’m talking about people like Tim Davies, Matthew Rex and Max Schoening from Cloud.app, just to name a few. Then, some promo codes of awesome iPhone apps will be given away during the live session, so you’ll have to tune in ;)

This will be the URL you can open tomorrow:  https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-event-live-coverage You can save it in your bookmarks and come back tomorrow to see it live.

So, see you tomorrow guys! And remember, you can use the #appleevent hashtag on Twitter.

So, we’re almost there but the rumors and leaks don’t seem to stop. While I was searching Youtube for the latest scoop I stumbled upon this video, which shows the “iPad” coming out from apple.com/ca search results. Also, the result say “Now available in 10, 13 and 15-inch models, meet our most advanced mobile desktop.”

Fake or not, it’s well done. We’ll know the truth in hours. And remember, you can follow the event’s updates on my Twitter stream and - maybe - on a live chat here on MacStories. I’ll keep you posted about it.

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“Apple reported its financial results for Q1 2010 which ended December 26, 2009 and the results were nothing short of impressive. Apple posted its all time highest quarterly revenue, its all time highest quarterly profit and when annualized, these numbers will push Apple into a $50+ billion per year company. Dollar figures that are impressive they don’t require an explanation, so we will let the numbers speak for themselves:

-Revenue of $15.68 billion ($11.88 billion in Q1 2009);

-58% of revenue derived from international sales;

-Net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion or $3.67 per diluted share ($2.26 billion, or $2.50 per diluted share in Q1 2009);

-Gross margin of 40.9 percent (37.9 % in Q1 2009);

-$5.8 billion generated in cash;”

Now, I’d rather believe those who say Apple can sell 8 millions Tablets during 2010.