The tech world is beginning to fill with Android-powered tablet computers, just as it is already full of hordes of different Android phones. Are any of them real iPad competition, or just a nuisance?
If you were about to rush off into iTunes to download that controversial WikiLeaks app from the App Store, fahgitaboutit! Apple has eradicated that particular $1.99 app from their online store.
If you were to trip the light fantastic through Apple’s open job listings (no, not Jobs) list, you might get the impression that they are getting really serious about jumping hip-deep into the mapping business.
It is fairly clear that none of the tablets that would like to compete with Apple’s iPad are really doing anything like that yet, and there is some expert opinion that the situation will not markedly change in 2011.
The folks that count beans in the world of high tech are beginning to lump the iPad and other tablets into the PC column, if only to make comparisons. Should the iPad be counted as a proper PC?
Apple may be planning to make our lives easier in myriad ways through the use of NFC across all of its computer lines, simplifying our use of computers and the way they interact with devices around them.
It is sometimes difficult to tell exactly what the meanings are behind search trends, i.e., how many people are searching for what terms, but it is easy to figure out that “Apple” is a more popular search than “Android.”
The logic is a little roundabout, but an excellent case can be made for OS X following iOS4 into the app store model as a good thing for Mac developers, and thus for OS X users as well.
The shiny new Mac Store will be opening soon, according to all accounts, but when it opens it will be missing some features that users have been accustomed to on the iOS4 App Store for the iPhone and iPad.
The fabled 90-second previews of songs on iTunes are finally ready to roll out, at least on some songs, although shorter songs don’t qualify for longer previews. Why? Once again, please feel free to blame the music biz.
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