Apple kicked Sony out of the door, rejecting its new reading app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod. The reasons given to Sony were that Apple will not accept applications that permit in-app purchases of content that don’t go through Apple itself, and, moreover, will not tolerate apps that access material purchased through external content [...]
The e-Reader market has essentially become a two horse race between the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad, according to ChangeWave’s latest survey of more than 2,800 consumers. The Amazon Kindle (47%; down 15-pts) is hanging on to a rapidly diminishing lead over the Apple iPad (32%; up 16-pts) among current e-Reader owners. However, the [...]
Apple is set launch an upgraded 9.7-inch iPad adopting a new ARM Cortex-A9-based processor and 512MB RAM in the first quarter of 2011. Meanwhile, the company will also launch a 7-inch iPad using the Cortex-A9 processor and an IPS panel with a resolution of 1024×768, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo. In addition, [...]
Apple has just let word out that it’ll be bringing its slate to nine new markets. The Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore are all getting their hands on the device this Friday, July 23. Price are not available yet but we’ll keep you posted on that. Apple revealed few days [...]
Apple’s just announced that it’s sold 3 million iPads worldwide since the US launch date, which is a pretty impressive sales rate. The announcement also mentions that the tablet will drop in nine more countries during the month of July, so if you’re currently living in a sad iPad-less nation, take comfort: you could be next. [...]
Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO has just revealed the new iPhone 4 in the WWDC convention. He’s also revealing some numbers on the revolution the iPad is currently leading in the eBook market. According to Jobs, The iPad has collected 22 percent of ebook sales since its launch and is getting new features. A PDF viewer [...]
In a recent BookExpo convention in the US, eBook publishers blamed Amazon and Apple for being a closed eBook reading platforms and expressing a yearning for a universal and open format that all books can be published and consumed on. This blame makes you wonder, why are these publishers aren’t supporting the ePub format that allows ebooks [...]
Sony said Thursday it will launch an e-reader in Japan and set up a platform for newspapers, books, comics and magazines, challenging rival Apple a day before its iPad goes on sale in the country. The Japanese electronics giant plans to build “one of the largest eBook distribution platforms in Japan,” with telecoms operator KDDI, [...]
Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo is reporting that Apple might release a smaller version of it’s iPad in Q1 2011 (January-March). Kuo was quoted saying: Apple’s smaller-size iPad will be priced below US$400 and will target the highly-portable mobile device market and consumers that focus mainly on reading and do not have a high demand for [...]
Update: Apple announced that “only” 300,000 iPad units were sold on day one. This number include pre oredered units, and units delievered to Best Buy stores across the US Mercurynews is estimating that more than 700,000 iPads were sold on day one of the device being available in stores around the US and online. This number includes [...]