Apple iPad and related items (part 2)

[Kid_Eternity]

Hardly a surprise Apple's top dude doesn't rate Android tablets is it?

Apple COO Tim Cook (the man currently taking over day-to-day operations for Steve Jobs) commented on the current competition during Tuesday’s earnings call. Cook made it clear that Apple doesn’t believe the Android-based tablets on the market are competition. He called these devices “scaled up smartphones” and continued to opine that he sees them as “bizarre product” that don’t offer the “real tablet experience,” and he asserted Apple’s belief that it has a “huge, first-mover advantage.”

Cook acknowledged that future tablets running Google Honeycomb or from RIM may provide some competition, noting that Apple will “assess [the competition] as [it is] coming;” Cook made it clear that Apple isn’t sitting still.

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer noted that 80% of the Fortune 100 is either deploying or piloting the iPad in the enterprise. That’s up from 65% in the fourth quarter of 2010.

 

[editor]

Interesting piece:

The problem with not going 2x with an iPad 2 Retina Display
http://www.tipb.com/2011/01/19/problem-2x-ipad-2-retina-display/


Oh, and the latest rumours are quashing the notion of the 2x screen:
http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/cold_water_ipad_retina_display

 

[editor]

Hardly a surprise Apple's top dude doesn't rate Android tablets is it?

Apple seem to be going out of their way to slag off Android a lot more these days. I wonder why...

 

[Crispy]

Well, both websites have proved to have good sources in the past, so it's anyone's guess.

Apple are at least planning a high-res ipad, as evidenced by the @2x.png graphics found in the latest iOS. Whether that will be ipad 2 or 3, we don't know.

 

[editor]

Well, both websites have proved to have good sources in the past, so it's anyone's guess.

Apple are at least planning a high-res ipad, as evidenced by the @2x.png graphics found in the latest iOS. Whether that will be ipad 2 or 3, we don't know.

John Gruber pretty much rubbishes out of hand the idea of the iPad2 coming with a 2x screen.

http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/cold_water_ipad_retina_display

 

[Crispy]

Sounds like a reasonable argument. Still, nobody knows for sure, but I'm sure we'll find out soon.

 

[elbows]

Why have you posted the same link twice?

I wouldnt be surprised either way, but its not like the current ipads resolution seems noticeably horrible, and we have already discussed some of the drawbacks to doubling the res.

If the ipad2 just feature cameras, more CPU & GPU power, slightly better speaker and perhaps either sd slot or usb, then that would probably be just enough of a bump to keep the ipad competitive for a year, and it would not be any less of an upgrade than many of Apples other iOS device revisions. And Im sure they dont want to give us everything at onceor they will somewhat run out of impressive upgrades for ipad3 & 4.

I still think they would love to be able to use the term HD in some of their marketing, but its not as if the competition are utterly on fire with devices that are leaps ahead of the ipad in terms of price etc, and the physical size of the screen seems to be more of a differentiator between different companies tablet strategy than screen res.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Uncensored Playboy issues coming to Apple iPad

Double standards or is Apple finally loosening up a bit when it comes to app approval?

“Big news! Playboy–both old & new–will be available on iPad beginning in March,” Hugh Hefner tweeted.

He later confirmed that these issues will be uncensored on the Apple iPad, which is a departure from Apple’s previous App Store rules about adult content. Apple has previously not allowed programs with adult content like nudity in its App Store and Steve Jobs has even gone as far as saying that users can go to Android if they want porn.

There’s no word on when, exactly, we can expect uncensored Playboy on the iPad but I would imagine it won’t take too long. Perhaps this means that the upcoming iOS 4.3 will have different developer agreements, including the option to include adult content for those over a certain age.

For all the guff Apple has received over its draconian control of the App Store, it has done a lot to help mobile developers flourish. It has paid out over $1 billion in app revenues and the company has also slowly loosened up.

 

[elbows]

That may be a bit optimistic, I think they had a different attitude towards Playboy in the past than they did to other developers. And with the new subscription model for ipad magazines it seems Apple may have less problem with porn so long as they are getting their cut, and they can make some noises about allowing such things only for 'trusted partners' who are suitably corporate.

They have relaxed certain aspects of the app policy & store over time but I still dont expect a floodtide of filth to suddenly appear there.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I really have no idea why they would want to release an app anyway - apart from possibly that paying for an app is a lower barrier to entry for people than paying for a website subscription.

 

[editor]

Apple haven't changed their moralistic stance on censoring titillation and the Playboy app isn't going to happen:

It turns out that Playboy is working on an uncensored Web-based subscription version of its site that will be designed for the iPad’s mobile Safari browser. The Playboy app available in the App Store, however, will remain as censored as ever

http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/19/sorry-playboy-fans-still-no-porn-in-the-app-store/

Oh, and it looks like you can forget all about those groovy iPad multitasking gestures too, as it seems that they were 'just a developer preview.'

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/ios-4-3-beta-2-released-multitasking-gestures-just-a-developer/

 

[pk]

Mmm. More to come soon from the House of Apple methinks...

 

[adwardpaul25]

Business Mobile Packages

I can do all of this on the Apple iPad.

*spam removed, twat banned.

 

[elbows]

Oh, and it looks like you can forget all about those groovy iPad multitasking gestures too, as it seems that they were 'just a developer preview.'

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/ios-4-3-beta-2-released-multitasking-gestures-just-a-developer/

Nothing wrong with Apple giving their developers an advanced look at new features, especially ones that may impact on the behaviour of existing apps.

For sure its annoying when wider user expectations are increased via the leaking of confidential info for devs, and then these expectations are dashed when it turns out the feature wont make it into the version of the software they are expecting it to. But better to err in that direction than keep your devs in the dark.

 

[editor]

Nothing wrong with Apple giving their developers an advanced look at new features, especially ones that may impact on the behaviour of existing apps.

Err, I wasn't saying that there was anything wrong with it all - I was just pointing out that it looks like the feature won't be arriving any time soon, as some had suggested.

 

[elbows]

Sure, theres never a sneery tone when you are discussing anything to do with Apple.

 

[Crispy]

Oh let's not go there now please

 

[tarannau]

Bit tiresome though, isn't it?

 

[Crispy]

He didn't go there, so why should we?

 

[tarannau]

he has gone there though, hasn't he? Where's there's a story that portrays Apple in a slightly negative light, there's more than a fair chance that Ed will be quick to cut and paste it on here, complete with bombastic language

See above and the China story from today alone. It's the lack of balance and the denial that it happens that makes it all the more grating.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Not to mention leaping to the defense of Android, regardless of whether anyone else has a differing experience...

 

[elbows]

I apologise. I try hard to bite my tongue on this stuff and clearly I fail sometimes, my bad.

 

[Kanda]

Nah, it's all impartial, really, it is...

 

[tarannau]

I apologise. I try hard to bite my tongue on this stuff and clearly I fail sometimes, my bad.

We all do, that's the amazing thing about it. It shouldn't be this way, with Crispy trying to head off narked arguments at the pass.

 

[Kanda]

From the Earnings conf call:

- Tablet competition: Apple COO Tim Cook divided existing tablet offerings from competitors into two flavors: Windows-based tablets requiring a keyboard or stylus and small Android-based tablets running an operating system not designed for the form factor and consequently yielding a "bizarre" scaled-up smartphone experience. Apple doesn't consider either of the two categories competitive with the iPad. Looking ahead to Android 3.0 tablets, Cook referred to most of the CES tablet announcements as "vapor" for the time being and indicated that Apple will evaluate them as they come to market, also noting that Apple is of course not standing still with the iPad.

 

[Crispy]

We all do, that's the amazing thing about it. It shouldn't be this way, with Crispy trying to head off narked arguments at the pass.

That's my job.

 

[tarannau]

I would hope that it would be to facilitate decent discussion rather than to encourage people to bite their tongues and not give their true opinions for fear of a barney.

 

[editor]

Sorry, I can't be arsed with these laughable, super-touchy personal attacks just because I, err, posted up the news that the Playboy app and multitasking gestures aren't coming, but if you've got an iPad and you're a BT customer, this is good news:

http://www.wirefresh.com/bt-broadband-customers-get-free-wi-fi-with-ipad-app/

 

[tarannau]

Ah, we're all super touchy now. Makes a change from fanbois I suppose

Classy and not at all a dismissive denial, again.

 

[elbows]

I somewhat regret apologising now, for it takes two to tango.