Come Monday morning, or whenever he gets back to his 1 Infinite Loop studio in Cupertino, California, I suspect Apple senior vice president of design will be in for a bit of good natured ribbing. To whit he could reply, whilst looking condescendingly down his nose, “That’s, Sir Jonny, to you, peasant.”
Steve Jobs famously declared that 2010 would be the year of the iPad and that came true big time. When he introduced the Apple’s second generation tablet, he likewise said 2011 would be the year of the iPad 2 and, even though the official tallies won’t be in for weeks, there’s no question how well that’s worked out. But, it seems that was all just a warm up.
Roll your eyes and groan — here comes a rumorological musing fresh from the Silicon Isle. Yup, Taiwan and that invariably means DigiTimes. Whereas I’ve studiously avoided reporting the latest Apple TV — a real, honest-to-goodness television — emanations wafting on the breeze from that source, discernible and believable patterns are forming.
One of the truly awesome things about the iPad is its battery life, which Apple advertises at 10 hours but in my experience regularly exceeds that. Now imagine that your Mac, iPhone, iPad or whatever can run for days, weeks or even longer while never requiring charging in the traditional sense.
Although I still don’t get the attraction, Apple’s latest effort to drive subscriptions on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is succeeding. Newsstand is, after all, just a glorified folder, but it’s nonetheless getting users to pay for digital magazines and newspapers — the proof is in the numbers.
For many members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, it must be more than a little galling to give the Apple co-founder and erstwhile an award for in essence taking the lead role in the ongoing dismantling of their business model. Alternately, isn’t it tellingly cheap and myopic that they only got ’round to bestowing this largess after the instrument of the industry’s collective salvation died.
Everyone’s favorite Cupertino, California-based fruit company has a surplus of unicorn tears, so many in fact that Tim Cook wants them off the books and will distribute them to shareholders sometime next year. Sure. We’ve heard this from regular shareholders, as well as institutional investors endless bleating for “their share” of the spoils, more than once before. However, now that Steve Jobs is gone, the bleaters are back.
The rollout has been a slow slog. Although Apple began shipping Macs with Thunderbolt ports back on February 24 of this year, only a relative handful of products have actually shipped. Thereupon, long-time Mac add-on maker Sonnet has increased its Thunderbolt offerings by 50 percent with the addition of a new product.
There are promotional tours and then there’s the virtually non-stop roadshow that has been Walter Isaacson for the past three months. Oprah, Leno, The Voice, NPR, CNN, PBS, broadcast and print everything. He started teasing Steve Jobs before it was released and now he’s telling us that the book we just finished reading wasn’t the finished product and that a mo’ better version is coming.
I went to the Apple Store and all I got was this totally awesome (single color, tastefully plain) t-shirt! When I was a kid, you could either BE cool or you could be one of the few and proud to own at least one of the really cool concert t-shirts. The assumption being you were actually there to see, for example, ACDC open the US leg of their ‘Back in Black’ tour in Erie, PA on July 30, 1980. Well, concerts aren’t what they were, but Apple’s cooler than ever.
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