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The new iPad becomes available in nine more countries today

Cody Lee ∙ April 27, 2012

As noted by TheNextWeb, Apple is launching its latest iPad in nine new countries today. This means that the tablet is now available in 30 countries within less than 60 days of hitting the market, making it one of Apple's fastest international product rollouts ever.

Apple missed iPad sales projections by nearly a million units last quarter. But between the upcoming educational buying season and increased availability, that shouldn't happen again. Keep reading for a full list of the new countries...

IndieDevLab: a WWDC alternative for developers

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 25, 2016

Early yesterday morning, Apple put 2012 WWDC tickets up for sale. The World Wide Developer Conference is a popular meeting place for both iOS and Mac developers, featuring hands-on workshops and previews of Apple's latest software.

It's so popular, in fact, that tickets sold out in a matter of a few hours yesterday — leaving thousands of people disappointed. Luckily, some guys got together to create the IndieDevLab, an alternative conference for Apple developers...

25% of iPad purchases are from first-time Apple buyers

Cody Lee ∙ April 26, 2012

The NPD, a consumer market research firm, is out with a new report today regarding its recent Apple Ecosystem Study. The firm asked more than 3,000 consumers, of balanced demographics, on whether or not they owned Apple products. And if so, which ones.

As usual, the results are pretty interesting. The study found that one-in-five Apple owner households owns at least one iPad. But current Apple owners aren't the only people that are being drawn to the new tablet: one-in-four iPad buyers are first-time Apple buyers...

Childish: Samsung stages douchebag stunt urging Apple store shoppers to ‘Wake Up’

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated July 11, 2017

File this one under the WTF category. Not content with referring to Apple's (and potentially its own) customers as the iSheep, South Korea-based Samsung has apparently staged a 'spontaneous' flash mob-style protest at an Apple store.

I ain't kidding. The video, included right below, depicts a crowd of people conveniently clad in black, wielding douchebag 'Wake Up' signs outside Apple's retail outlet in Sydney, Australia...

iOSLiveTV.com streams live television to your iOS device totally free of charge

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 26, 2012

Here's something pretty cool (or should I say, 'magical'): a website that streams live television from anywhere in the world, right to your Apple mobile device, using an iOS-friendly MP4 video format via the AirPlay protocol. You just pull up the webpage using the Safari browser on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, pick one of the listed countries and up pop live television channels airing in the selected territory.

From here, tap the channel of your choice and live television content begins streaming, licensing restrictions be damned. In case you were wondering: yes, they have the XXX section covered as well. It's a hack, no question about it, so expect either Apple or broadcasters (or both) to restrict or even take down the site as we speak...

‘Insanely Simple’, new book on Apple, makes its iBookstore debut

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated May 30, 2017

If neither Walter Isaacson's authorized bio book on Steve Jobs nor Fortune Editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple didn't satisfy your hunger for Apple's dirty little secrets and the inner workings of the world's most powerful corporation, it'll be a case of third time lucky with this one.

Enter Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall, another not-to-be-missed download for your collection of e-books on Apple. It just debuted on the iBookstore, offering a fascinating inside look at Apple's secret weapon and also their corporate religion: simplicity...

The Apple ‘halo effect’ is all about iPads and iPhones now, NPD says

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated June 13, 2016

According to a new study out today from research firm NPD Group, based on a poll of more than 3,000 United States consumers in February 2012, one out of four Apple customers in the United States chose the iPad as their first-ever Apple product.

Moreover, the iPhone and iPad combined account for one-third of first-time Apple purchases since 2010. In a way, the iPad is the new Apple gateway drug with universal appeal and strong pull.

The device lures first-time buyers to the Apple ecosystem. Once in, they live happily in that ecosystem and purchase additional gadgets over time, namely the iPhone...

What Google’s smartphone looked like before the iPhone

Cody Lee ∙ April 26, 2012

Thanks to his biography, Steve Jobs' feelings on Android are fairly well known. The late-CEO famously said, "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Considering that Apple is involved in a number of lawsuits around the globe with Android manufacturers, it's easy to see that Jobs' remarks weren't totally unfounded. But did Google actually steal anything?

Cheaper iPad 2 could help Apple make major headway into education market

Cody Lee ∙ Updated March 18, 2016

Nobody was surprised when Apple announced that it was going to continue selling its one-year old iPad 2 at a discount alongside its new tablet last month. After all, the Cupertino company pulled the same thing with the iPhone 4 and 4S.

Considering that Apple has sold more than 70 million iPhones over the past two quarters, it's safe to say that keeping the older iPhone around is paying off in spades. And it looks like keeping the iPad 2 around will yield similar results...

Ferrari CEO had sit-down meetings with Apple’s boss and heads of Google

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 25, 2012

Don't hit the comments yet, this is nothing like the false Valve rumor. A surprising report straight from Ferrari's website has it that Apple CEO Tim Cook along with heads of Google sat down for a two-hour chat with Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo.

Remarking Cooks' "openness and availability", the car maker wrote that the sit-down meeting occurred during di Montezemolo's trip to Silicon Valley last week, where he also gave a speech at Stanford University.

What did the two men talk about if not world-class industrial design and their common penchant for creating great products with the utmost attention to detail?

Ferarri wouldn't reveal the agenda of the two-hour face-to-face meeting with Cook, but they did state the obvious - that the car maker and the iPhone maker share the same "maniacal attention to technology, but also to design"...

Confirmed: Sprint to keep unlimited data, whether or not iPhone 5 is LTE

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 25, 2012

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has finally addressed concerns that the carrier might drop its unlimited data plans for an upcoming sixth-generation iPhone. Speaking to CNET's Roger Cheng, Hesse said his company has little interest in changing unlimited data plans by the time the next iPhone hits the market later this year, whether or not it is LTE capable.

Sprint is the only major United States wireless operator still offering an all-you-can-eat data plans to smartphone customers. This, as Hesse often puts it, remains the carrier's "distinctive differentiator"...

Cook on toaster-refrigerator dilemma and why iPad and MacBook won’t converge

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 25, 2012

Apple reported its monster first-quarter earnings yesterday and CEO Tim Cook updated investors on a conference call with various tidbits.

He also addressed the upcoming Windows 8 operating system which was designed to scale easily from tablets to notebooks to desktop systems.

Even as the likes of Huawei allegedly jump on the Windows 8 bandwagon, Cook thinks the operating system won't succeed at uniting the two worlds.

Specifically, Cook likened Microsoft's strategy to a toaster-refrigerator convergence that would never work.

Fielding a question from Citigroup's Richard Gardner, Apple's boss said that yes, even though iPad and MacBook could converge, such a combination would never work because of the many tradeoffs customers would not be willing to put up with.

Plus, he said it would make little sense as the two products cater to different needs and consumers use them differently...