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Yahoo CEO: “iAd Will Fall Apart”

Apple’s iAd system has won the scorn of Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, who told Reuters last night the ad system will “fall apart for them”.

Bartz believes most advertisers will eventually reject Apple’s ad system because the company demands too much control over what advertisers do.

“Advertisers are not going to have that type of control over them. Apple wants total control over those ads,” she said, though she conceded that Apple’s effort is “ok for experimentation.

She has a point: advertisers want to be in control of their campaigns, and Apple is telling them to follow its rules and tastes. Just like with the iPod in 2001, though, this might just need some more time. Time is money, I know, but I frankly don’t see Apple letting something fall apart after a few months of introduction.

I mean, the Apple TV is still around.

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AirPrint Coming in November, HP’s ePrint Printers First To Support It

With the release of iOS 4.2 beta today to iPhone and iPad developers, Apple issued a press release confirming that AirPrint, the technology that will allow wireless printing on iOS, will be out in November - and HP’s ePrint-enabled printers will be the first to support it.

This is pretty confusing: will HP’s printers the only ones to support AirPrint, or will they just be the first ones to officially support it? Check out the press release after the break. Read more

Apple Posts “iPod + iTunes Timeline” Page

Not so many people noticed this on September 1st (Alex Brooks did), but Apple posted a cool webpage called “iPod + iTunes Timeline” right after the music event. You can check out the page here. As the name suggests, it’s a timeline of iTunes and iPod history starting from January 2001 all the way down to September 2010 and it comes with useful info about product release dates and announcements.

You can also download “image packs” (upon confirming an agreement) which contain .tif files of Apple products. At the bottom of the page, some pictures of celebrities enjoying their iPods.

Nostalgia. Read more

iPhone 3G Users, Upgrade to iOS 4.1 [Video]

As soon as iOS 4.1 comes out this week (as announced by Steve Jobs at last week’s Apple music event) iPhone 3G users should feel safe to upgrade. In case you don’t know, iOS 4 for iPhone 3G wasn’t exactly “perfect”: to cut short, it was slow. I tried an iPhone 3G running the magical iOS 4: it was barely usable. Even a stupid task like unlocking the phone took a few seconds more than usual, not to mention springboard navigation and Safari. Everything was slow and slow-motion - at a point you couldn’t believe Apple shipped such a thing. Read more

The Ultimate iOS Pie Chart

At least, that’s what asymco claims. We knew that there were 59.6 million iPhones and 3.2 million iPads through June; at the music event last Wednesday, Apple announced that 120 million iOS devices were sold to date. So asymco assumed that Apple sold 8 million iPhones and 4 million iPads during July and August, and they came up with a 45.2 million iPod Touches sold to date estimate. That’s 37.7% of total units. Read more

Ping: The Woz Approves

I don’t like Ping, but who am I to go against what the Woz says? After Wednesday’s Apple Music Event (where Steve Jobs surprisingly mentioned Wozniak by calling him his “partner in crime”) some journalists met the Woz and asked him a few questions about the stuff Jobs announced on stage. Namely, Apple TV and Apple’s first attempt at social networking - Ping.

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