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Apple iPad review – watching videos
iPad Report Card – Almost perfect device for watching purchased videos marred by lack of stand
Improvised iPad Stand - Jonas Brothers SOS
The Apple iPad is not much fun browsing for videos, which is a pastime for many people. iPad fails to deliver great video experience The iPad is much better at watching videos purchased from the Apple iTunes Store.
The screen size is perfect for personal watching and the screen resolution more than adequate. The iPhone / iPod Touch screen is too small. This one is just right, although fingerprints need to be cleaned often. Continue reading
Steve Jobs megalomania won’t make iPad THE gadget
Locking users out their computers will relegate Apple back to the trash bin of obscurity again
Steve Jobs closed world is doomed
Open Systems are good. Closed systems are bad. That is the only mantra of computing I know.
Apple’s Steve Jobs has always wanted to rape and pillage the world with his design to enrich his wallet. The whole Apple thing about being unique and Job’s years in the wilderness with NeXT was about his singular desire to own you and me. He’s a certified megalomaniac who made people rich.
Cool Apple iPad arrives in Canada
Last week we learned that Jobs is not allowing developers for iPhone 4 OS (which eventually will become iPad 4 OS) to recompile their applications from Adobe Flash to the iPhone. Adobe’s evangelist wrote a hearty Hey Apple Screw You blog.
Despite needing Adobe Photoshop for all it’s core market – artists who use Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere on their Macs – Steve Jobs is trying to squeeze Adobe out of his universe and yours. I can agree Adobe writes bloatware and that Flash is slow but guess what – they define the market for their products.
If I want to use something else to edit photographs or my movies, that will be my choice, not Steve Jobs. Foobar to Steve Jobs and his control of the world. Continue reading
We’re becoming App-aholics
Demand for smart phone applications is outstripping software for computers
By Suzy Parker, USA TODAY
Why didn’t someone think of this sooner? Computer applications for an iPhone cost from 99 cents to $900. The $900 is abnormally high since most are under $10. If you buy one and don’t like it, you throw it away.
The smart phone application market is estimated at $3 billion annually. To put it in perspective, Microsoft the world’s largest software company had annual revenues of $58 billion last year.
There is an iPhone application for everything. You can write posts for a blog, take pictures and post them (without cropping), take a video and post to YouTube, update Twitter and Facebook, tune your guitar, watch NASA videos and check email. You can read this blog on an iPhone or other smart phone.
We can check stock prices, play music videos, check the bank, see whats happening in town and download mandolin chords while cruising along the Rive Sud in Quebec.
There are more than 100,000 applications for smart phones with thousands more on the way. Some are fun, some are nothing but propaganda for companies and some are very useful. Most teenagers have hundreds on their phones.
iPad destined for obsolescence
April 3, 2010 shipments of the Apple iPad are just the first round in a two year battle to determine the market leader
Apple's April iPad is Round One in the battle
Update – March 14, 2010 – first day orders of the Apple iPad were estimated at 120,000 which is not bad for a new product.
The fun of being the first kid-on-the-block with an iPad in April will quickly fade when competitors and Apple introduce better models. The first iPhones were out of date when Apple introduced newer and more desirable models. The iPad will be replaced by models that correct the first round glitches. Competition will quickly enter the market provide features Apple left out, and at lower prices.
Cool Apple iPad arrives in Canada
By John Biggs, Crunch Gear – With the iPad hitting pre-order in two days and shipping in April, it’s important to think about when and why to buy the iPad. Based on our understanding of the product lifecycle and expected moves by Apple’s competitors, we foresee big changes in the ultra-portable landscape with the ultra-portable/netbook as we now know it mutating – or branching – into a new species of media oriented Win7 and Android devices. Here’s what we can expect.
Apple iPad shipping April orders March 12
As Apple gets ready to ship more questions arise
Apple is opening the order books to take your order for the iPad on March 12th. The iPad is shipping on April 3rd from stores.
After the excitement of the product launch, two things are clear. Apple has defined the new tablet and will take the early lead in popularity. The lack of decent 3G service will probably steer most buyers to the wi-fi version.
Cool Apple iPad arrives in Canada
The competition is lining up with alternative models that are expected to begin shipping in April as well but it’s hard to tell if they will put a dent in Apple’s lead. Continue reading
NJN on your iPhone
The results are surprisingly good
NJN Network on iPhone
Please give NJN Mobile a try and tell us what is working for you and what is not. There is nothing special you need to do – just bookmark our site in your mobile browser and check it out.
When I first got an iPhone using it for web access was horribly slow. Pages were taking 1-2 minutes to appear. Moving to the next page was painful.
As the demand for smart phone access has increased, new software has improved smart phone access.
Two weeks ago we installed a widget that translates web pages into smart phone pages. Since then we’ve tweaked the software and think it’s working very well.
On 3G service, our main page loads in 6-10 seconds which isn’t that much slower than on a computer. Instead of a picture thumbnail, we show the date and headline. The front page loads faster and you can see the newest stories for the day. Update – with faster speeds using thumbnails is feasible.
The pages are sized to fit the iPhone and the text is readable.
YouTube videos play but Flash videos don’t. That’s an Apple limitation. Video on smart phone is painfully slow. You are at the mercy of bad connections and too much data.
Benchmarking NJN Network against other news sites, CBC takes about 15-30 seconds from the front page and then 10-20 seconds for the next pages.
NJN Network For Mobile Phones
Try NJN Network on your iPhone or Blackberry
Can’t wait to read the latest on NJN Network? We know how that feels. We can hardly wait to dish the news out to you.
To make it easier, there is a special version of NJN Network that will automatically load on your iTouch, iPhone, Blackberry or other smart phone.
Why not use the browser? The browser tries to do too much and takes too long to load. The new format, from WPTouch, loads faster and in the format your smart phone can easily display.
iPad update – The iPad doesn’t trigger the iPhone/SmartPhone app which is smart. You can easily read the normal full page on an iPad.
The stories are listed with date, headline and a comment counter. Click on the story and it will be nicely formatted for your mobile device. Pictures are scaled and videos play on demand.
Flash videos, unfortunately, are not supported by Apple for the i-series. We’re working on that like everyone in the industry. 75% of all videos on the internet are Flash. Apple has locked Flash off all its portable devices.
You should be able to comment from the story you’re reading. There is a drop down bar for pages – including the infamous PNP Thumbnail Continue reading
Google’s Nexus One an iPhone beater?
We have a hands-on comparison or does it even matter when the market for 3G phones is largely untapped
Nexus One
The Google Nexus One phone is out and the inevitable comparisons with the iPhone have started. Is it better? Will it kill the iPhone or at least take the lead?
Considering that Apple only has .5% of the market for 4G post-pay phones in the US, the question is really irrelevant. Google has a much wider market to look at than the one that Apple has carved out in two years.
The Google Nexus One looks very interesting and I would switch in a heartbeat mainly to try it out but the phone is not available in Canada. Google has the website for purchase at $529 US turned off if you land from Canada. Give me a week or two to get around that if I can.
Key advantages of the Google Nexus One are: it’s new, multi-tasking, integration with Google applications and open technology. You can run any Android applications on the Nexus One and you don’t have to lock into a closed shop like the iTunes Store. The phone can be purchased directly from Google unlocked and available for any GSM network. This frees the customer to pick the carrier of their choice. It will put pressure on the networks to drop 2 and 3 year contracts.
Microsoft ends 2009 with commanding lead of operating systems
Software giant controls 92.2% of computers while Mac comes in second at 5.1%
Market Share by Net Applications December 2009
While new players pick at the edge, Microsoft continues to dominate the operating system market. Market Applications reports Microsoft lost 1.53% market share during 2009. MAC and Linux remained static and the gain was almost totally in portable systems like the iPhone OS and Google’s Android. Portable operating systems are used on 1.53% of the computing devices.
Windows 7 just broke 8% market share at the end of December 2009 while Google’s Android is the fastest growing portable OS.
Story from ComputerWorld
Will 2010 be the year tablet computers take hold?
Promoted since the days of the Apple Newton pundits and press prognosticate this is the year
Freescale tablet computer
With the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Vegas this week, everyone is predicting a host of new tablet computers will shake the computer market out of its lethargy.
Tablets are computers you can easily carry, use an on-screen touch keyboard and connect to the world through wi-fi and 3G networks. You will be able to get your mail, compose a letter, watch TV and listen to music all in sub-10 inch format.
The iPhone is a miniature tablet. You can do all of the above but the screen is too small for serious work. On a trip in September I updated this blog from the car – not while driving – on the iPhone. It was possible but tedious due to the small screen and on-screen keyboard.