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Thanks to the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas promotion, every day from December 26th to January 6th users will be able to download a “fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps, books, TV episodes and a film” completely for free on iTunes.
The free app for iPhone and iPad that lets you receive push notifications for daily offers is available here. Today, you can download a free Duran Duran EP called From Mediterranea With Love.
Stay tuned for promotions coming every day until January 6.
According to a former RIM employee:
So that’s why they got left behind: they spent months making fun of something they thought wouldn’t be possible. They came out with their touchscreen smartphone eventually, the Storm, but it didn’t have all the features of the iPhone and, more importantly, it was already too late. Now RIM is struggling to catch up.
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Imagine their surprise when they disassembled an iPad.
Last week, Apple announced they would reach the 1 million Apple TV units sold in a few days. According to John Paczkowski at Digital Daily, today Apple confirmed 1 million Apple TVs have been sold in three months since its release date:
Last Tuesday Apple said it expected sales of its next generation Apple TV to top one million units before Christmas. Today the company confirmed to me that they did just that. Seems the addition of AirPlay support for wireless streaming, better iOS integration and the device’s aggressive new $99 price point have done quite a bit to spike sales of Apple’s so-called “hobby.
That’s indeed an impressive result for what Apple used to call a “hobby”. I guess this is the effect iOS has on devices, and we haven’t seen apps on the Apple TV yet.
An article published by Seth Weintraub over at Fortune last week made the rounds of the Internet detailing how the Android platform will “explode” next year thanks to relatively low-cost components. Broadcom has announced a new 3G HSDPA chipset called BCM2157 that allows for popular specs like Bluetooth, GPS, dual core ARM processors, 5MP cameras and capacitive displays. Broadcom is marketing this new chipset to Android OEMs. And the best part, according to Handset Line of Business for Broadcom Jim Tran? Phones built on the new chipset will retail under $100, possibly even touching the $75 price point. And we’re talking about retail prices of unsubsidized phones. That would allow “average users” who don’t normally spend hundreds of dollars on smartphone to buy a high-end Android phone and runs apps on it. Read more
As noted by Setteb.it, Apple has scheduled its q1 2011 earnings call for January 18, 2011. The conference call will be streamed live on Apple’s website (audio-only) and a link to the webcast will be provided in the following weeks.
Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its first fiscal quarter on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. PT. A link to the conference call webcast will be provided at a later date.
At the Q4 earnings call on October 18, Apple announced record sales for iPhones and iPads (14.1 million units and 4.19 million units, respectively), 3.89 million Macs sold and $20.34 billion revenue. At the conference call scheduled in January we’ll hear about the sales of the new MacBook Airs and iOS devices’ performances in the holiday season.
Will we get the chance to listen to Steve Jobs’ thoughts again? Who knows. We’re pretty sure it’s going to be fun and interesting anyway, and we’ll be here live discussing the results with you.
Long before iBooks and MacBooks, there was the Macintosh Portable. Released in 1989, the press loved it but consumer sales weren’t that great. The device was Apple’s first attempt to produce a portable, battery-based Macintosh computer that featured an LCD screen and a rechargeable battery. The machine also had a physical keyboard and a trackball to use as a mouse.
Looking back, the Macintosh Portable looks like the perfect piece of old Apple hardware to buy and keep jealously in your room. Now you can, as a prototype has been posted for sale on eBay. The unit is described as “absolutely mint, flawless, clean prototype Macintosh Portable” which was meant for sale – a label on the bottom of the computer confirms that “it is intended for demonstration purposes only”. The only caveat is that this prototype isn’t actually working as there seems to be a problem with the internal battery. It looks perfect on the outside, but it won’t turn on.
Bids start at $1,750.00. More photos are available on eBay, and if you plan on purchasing the item – be quick. After all, it’s an Apple prototype.
Thanks to the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas promotion, every day from December 26th to January 6th users will be able to download a “fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps, books, TV episodes and a film” completely for free on iTunes.
The free app for iPhone and iPad that lets you receive push notifications for daily offers is available here.
Today, you can download a free Christmas Special episode of Father Ted. iPhone game “The Mystery of the Crystal Portal” is given away in other European stores.
Stay tuned for promotions coming every day until January 6.
I guess the social cycle theory doesn’t really apply to technology. Maybe because the factors that influence tech progress change at a faster rate than human ones.
WSJ tech journalist Walt Mossberg thinks Apple’s iPad is the best product of 2010. The iPad is “amazing” and thanks to the new iOS 4.2 and huge selection of apps available, it “continues to stay ahead of the competition”. Competition that saw devices like the Dell Streak released in 2010, which Mossberg calls a “tweener” that’s “too big to be a phone yet too small to be a tablet”. The Samsung Galaxy S and iPhone 4 both ranked third in Mossberg’s chart of best products.
As for the second place:
High-speed 4G networks in the United States took the second spot. As the world goes more mobile, the availability of faster networks is critical. Today, 3G networks are bursting at the seams, and the promise of these networks will be something to watch closely in 2011.
We might argue on the relevance of 4G networks in 2010, as they seem more “promising” than actually available right now. There’s no doubt, though, that better and faster mobile networks will expand in 2011. We look forward to seeing what Mossberg’s “best & worst” chart will look like in 2011.
