The iPad Will Follow in the iPhone’s Success Says Goldman Sachs

AppleInsider brings to light a recent Goldman Sachs report that suggests the iPad, like the iPhone, will dominate its corresponding market with a well curated App ecosystem, vibrant developer community, and technological superiority in a number of areas.

Sachs points out that despite having only 3% of the world’s mobile phones in the market, Apple has managed to rake in the most profit (and continues to do so) despite the recent recession which cut competitor’s profits in half. Apple could manage to nearly double the profits of what RIM, Motorola, Nokia, HTC, and Sony Ericson generated, combined by the end of 2011.

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iOS 4.1: Now with Full Bluetooth AVRCP Support

Among the little fixes and new features introduced last night in iOS 4.1 Beta 1, some 9to5mac readers noticed a very important one: full Bluetooth playback control support for AVRCP-compatible devices.

AVRCP is a technology that allows Bluetooth handsets and car dashboards to take full control over the music playback of another device. Before iOS 4.1, an iPhone paired via Bluetooth only allowed volume control. Now it seems like you can play, pause, skip, forward and back.

Nice addition.

iOS 4.0.1 Coming Today?

This is curious: iPhoneHellas is claiming that Apple will release iOS 4.0.1 later today. They cite “a reliable source”, and as MacRumors notices the site was right about firmware releases in the past.

The 4.0.1 update should only contain bug fixes and the signal indicator formula. If this is true, expect it to drop in 6 hours.

Apple Holding Special iPhone 4 Conference on Friday

We’ve been waiting for this, as Apple had to do something about all the much-reported iPhone 4 reception issues. In fact, they’re holding a special press conference on Friday about the iPhone 4. No additional info are available at this moment.

Select press was invited on Wednesday, The Loop reports.  We’ll be following the event here on MacStories, so stay tuned.

As for what I think will happen, I’ve just tweeted it.

Genius Bar to be Revamped

The Genius Bar consists of Apple’s most techie employees, those that can solve everything from a fried motherboard to bad hard drives and corrupted data. But these can-do-anything super men and women will be asked to do more, in hopes of making the customer support experience more efficient than ever.

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Microsoft on iPhone 4: It’s Apple’s Vista

Not again. If there’s such a thing as a backhanded insult, Microsoft certainly pulled it off. Microsoft’s chief operating offcier labels the iPhone 4 as ‘Vista,’ poking fun at Apple in the process.

“One of the things I want to make sure you know today is that you’re going to be able to use a Windows Phone 7 and not have to worry about how you’re holding it to make a phone call,” Turner said, referring to the Microsoft mobile operating system set to debut on smartphones this fall.

Tough talk for a product that hasn’t even been released yet.

[via Computerworld]