Well, the moving finger writes — This week :
* iPhone Hacker Thinks He’s Cracked the iPad, Too
* Adobe vs Apple: No Flash on iPhone
* Apple yanking protective screen film from stores?
* Radio Shack: nation’s second-largest iPhone retailer
* Best Buy Ramping Up for iPad Launch
* iPhone OS grabs US game market share from PSP & DS
* 5 ways the iPhone beats the Nexus One
* Interactive Magazine for iPad … and more!
iPhone Hacker Thinks He’s Cracked the iPad, Too
George Hotz, famously known as the first hacker to unlock the iPhone, says he’s done it again. The whiz kid on Thursday evening said he had cooked up a new hack for all iPhone OS devices, and he’s betting it will work on the iPad, too.
It’s plausible to believe that an iPhone OS jailbreak will also work for the iPad. While the iPad will support apps that are exclusive to the device, its OS shares the same DNA as the iPhone’s.
continue reading :: Brian X. Chen – www.wired.com
Adobe vs Apple: No Flash on iPhone
Adobe thinks that the reason for no Flash on iPhone is an “Apple issue”
The relationship between Adobe and Apple is turning sour slowly. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, at the company’s fiscal first quarter earnings conference call, stated that the absence of Flash on the iPhone is “Apple issue”. In January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had accused Adobe for being lazy and said that despite having the potential to do things, they (Adobe) won’t do it. continue reading :: Techtree News Staff
Apple yanking protective screen film from stores?
Apple is instituting a ban on all protective screen film products from its online and retail stores starting in May, according to iLounge, which cites several companies familiar with the matter. If it happens, the move will take away some of Apple’s most popular third-party products. But what for?
It will also prevent sales of film for iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers. One vendor speculated that the ban is an Apple marketing attempt to suggest screen durability, despite scratches that have damaged both plastic and glass displays of its products for years. continue reading :: Charles Starrett – Senior Editor, iLounge
Radio Shack set to become nation’s second-largest iPhone retailer
Radio Shack this weekend will become the second-largest third-party retailer of Apple’s iPhone by storefronts when it launches a front-page promotion to celebrate the rollout of the touchscreen handset to thousands of its shops nationwide, AppleInsider has learned.
Radio Shack has been gradually working towards the milestone since January, expanding sales of the Apple handset to hundreds of new stores each week, following a successful pilot program that began late last year in a handful of locations around Manhattan and its home base of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. continue reading :: Kasper Jade – www.appleinsider.com
Best Buy Ramping Up for iPad Launch
Big box retailer Best Buy is apparently ramping up for the April 3rd iPad launch at its Apple store-in-a-store locations around the United States.
Best Buy will be the only brick-and-mortar retailer to offer the iPad other that Apple when the multimedia tablet and ebook reader is released. continue reading :: Jeff Gamet www.macobserver.com
iPhone OS grabs US game market share from PSP & DS
When is a games console not a games console? When it’s an iPhone or iPod touch, of course, and while Apple may only list gaming as a partial purpose of their devices, that hasn’t stopped iPhone OS from picking up a growing chunk of the market.
Software analysts Flurry have stepped up with some new figures that suggest Apple’s iPhone OS has seen its US video game software market share increase five-fold between 2008 and 2009. continue reading :: Chris Davies www.slashgear.com
5 ways the iPhone beats the Nexus One
Jason D. O’Grady writes :
“Despite my recent post about the Nexus One being a better phone than the iPhone, there are several things that the iPhone does better than Android. Here’s my short list”
1) Copy and paste 2) Touchscreen 3) Music app 4) Google Voice 5) App Store
Nexus One better phone than the iPhone continue reading :: Jason D. O’Grady blogs.zdnet.com
A Peek at an Interactive Magazine for the Apple iPad
VIVmag, an all-digital lifestyle magazine that is available online, plans to introduce an interactive iPad version of its content when the device, from Apple, is released next month.
The videos (on this page) offer a preview of the kind of experience that readers, or rather viewers, can expect for some iPad versions of the digital magazines. Similar to the Wired video released last month, Viv and other magazines are getting ready to offer touch, video and a wave of other hands-on experiences. continue reading :: Nick Bilton – New York Times
New 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display and new Mac Pro Rumored
All eyes are on the upcoming Apple iPad, but Apple is supposedly also releasing other new products soon.
Apple Insider reports that Apple could soon release a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display. continue reading :: Luigi Lugmayr
Preview: Instapaper Pro for iPad
Instapaper Pro for iPad will be a universal app, a bundle containing code for both the iPad and iPhone. This means that, if the app makes it through Apple’s approval channels, current Instapaper users will never have to see a pixel-doubled version, which “sucked, and it was completely unusable by my standards,” according to Arment. Picture continue reading :: Charlie Sorrel www.wired.com
iPad App Announcements: Comic Zeal and Synotes
As April 3 draws ever closer–iPad zero-hour, just in case you aren’t counting down the days–a growing number of developers are taking the wraps off plans for making software that runs on Apple’s new tablet.
Two of the more interesting announcements as of late have come out of Australia, where developers Bitolithic and Synocode are giving users the scoop on what the iPad means for their respective apps. continue reading :: Philip Michaels, Macworld.com
Shoddy Research Hampers Investors
BOSTON (TheStreet) — If you own Apple(AAPL) stock, your investment is riding on the success of the upcoming iPad, the company’s latest gadget after the iPod and iPhone.
Consider this yardstick: On March 12, estimated iPad pre-orders peaked at a rate of 25,000 an hour before a drop-off during the weekend to about 1,000 per hour. continue reading :: Joe Mont BOSTON (TheStreet)
So, there’s the most interesting of several hundred from last week’s mailbag! If you’ve got one, send it in. ‘Till then …
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