Apple ships a new product and there’s an uproar. The fans rejoice, seeing all that is good, while the haters, well… Here we are again and Cupertino’s latest opus, or at least the first movement thereof, has caused quite a still. Though the hand ringers are unlikely to go silent, there isn’t much left to complain about after today.
The line starts here. When it comes to security, everybody loves to kick Apple. Why? Because Cupertino doesn’t communicate their intentions and doesn’t patch an issue until they’re sure it’s licked. With an evolving threat like DigiNotar, don’t worry, everyone will have time to get a few well placed shots.
Aside from superficial legalities, what’s the difference between Apple’s download and play anywhere iCloud music service, and BitTorrent? How you answer the question largely depends on which side of the religious divide you fall. Now, Apple’s moving to obviate some of that destructive rancor, though the debate won’t be fully silenced.
For better and worse, there has never been a brick n’ mortar retail software trade in the Apple mobile space. From day one, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has been digital only. Now, the mothership is preparing to all but empty the Apple Store of retail package software for the Mac.
The success of the Apple App Store is proving difficult to duplicate for other companies, and Google is beginning to cast about for new and better ideas for getting Android apps built for Android handsets.
Gartner Research has done what they do best, which is gaze into their crystal ball and get good answers, and can not tell us that Apple’s mobile app revenue in 2011 will be at least $15 billion.
The closer we get to the production dates of Apple’s new mobile products, the iPad 2 and the iPad 5, the more likely it seems that both will come with nifty NFC point-of-purchase functionality.
Apple, intent upon making it easier for users to buy iPhone and iPad apps that they see on the devices of other users, got a patent in 2009 that could help users share apps with other iPhone and iPad users.
It is beginning to look as if the “Home” button on Apple’s upcoming iPad 2 and iPhone5 are things of the past, in favor of some new gestures that will do the hard button’s job and perhaps more.
Graphs and bullet points — what would we do without them? Honestly, meetings would be a lot longer and we’d get a lot less done and less accurately at that. Although it’s still very early in the game, what can soundbite-sized chunks of data tell us about Apple’s Mac App Store?
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