Remember the great commercial Newsday ran to promote its official iPad application? The one where an iPad was used to kill a fly on the table, yeah. It’s gone. According to NetworkWorld, Apple got in touch with Newsday and sent a cease & desist letter threatening all of their apps. Read more
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Apple Takes Newsday’s Viral iPad Ad Down
Apple, The Next Step Is AirFiles
I installed iOS 4.2 beta on my iPad, but haven’t been able to check out the new AirPlay or AirPrint features yet: I don’t have an Apple Airport Express station to configure with my stereo, nor I have a compatible HP printer in the office. Still, I know these two new features pretty well: AirPlay is Apple’s take on how you should be able to consume digital content in the living room, AirPrint allows you to print documents from your iPad and iPhone with a few taps. Both of them are great features. I want to focus on AirPlay, though: as Seth Weintraub puts it, AirPlay is Apple’s “go to market” strategy - in a way that this single feature will let users easily hook their iPhones and iPads to the Apple TV to effortlessly share SD content, and eventually pay for HD versions using Apple’s TV own rental system. Any kind of video content can be streamed using AirPlay, as long as it uses a standard media controller and it’s encoded using the popular H.264 video format.
I haven’t tried it personally, but I already know AirPlay is going to be huge amongst iPad and iPhone owners once the new Apple TV will be available. This kind of one-tap streaming and sharing of content between devices has got me thinking, though: what if Apple shipped “AirFiles”, a built-in system to share any kind of documents across mobile devices and computers? Read more
Apple Launches “Fashion” Section in the App Store
Introducing The iPod Ninja
Even if Apple told us the whole “Steve with Ninja stars” story was fake, Scoopertino has the real, ehm, scoop. It turns out, Steve Jobs wasn’t carrying shuriken around - no. Those were new and unreleased iPods.
World, meet the iPod Ninja. Read more
Yahoo CEO: “iAd Will Fall Apart”→
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.
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
World’s Largest Enterprise iPad Rollout: SAP Deploys 1,000 iPads
Perfect timing. Earlier today we talked about international insurer Lloyds starting to use the iPad with brokers as a writing tool, now SAP joins the list of large corporations deploying iPads to its employees. In fact, SAP’s may be the largest iPad rollout to date: with 1,000 iPads already deployed, ZDNet assumes that Apple itself hasn’t rolled out that many tablets to its employees. 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