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09-09-09 Apple's "It's Only Rock and Roll" Event
With Aerosmith blaring in the sound system, hundreds of media and thousands of cameras, guests of Apple’s “It’s Only Rock n Roll” anxiously wait to begin.
CEO Steve Jobs led the Apple event today with some great news for Apple fans (and investors): In the past two years they have sold 30 million iPhones. The App Store was released last year and has over 75000 apps that have been downloaded over 1.8 billion times. That’s insane!
But the real news: Today is the release of the new iPhone OS 3.1, which can be used on both the iPod touch and iPhone. Among other features and updates, now the iPod and iPhone have Genius function road-tested with iTunes. Good or bad? You decide. They have also added over 30,000 ringtones to the App Store for a “breakthrough price of $1.29.” So if you have an iPod or iPhone make sure to update to 3.1, and guess what… It’s FREE!
The iPad. Is it really that magical?
iPad. Whoop-dee-doo.
Steve jobs unveiled apple’s new product the ipad in San Francisco this week. Although apple is calling it “magical” and “revolutionary.” I cant help but think this device looks like an old wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Back in 2007, Apple launched a little game-changer called the iPhone, which offered consumers a touch pad phone and computer all in one tiny package — revolutionary stuff there. It was user friendly, looked cool and soon enough everybody and their mom had one.
Although the iPad does have some cool features like a 10+ hr battery life and an iTunes style bookstore, it also has a lot of flaws. It can’t multitask, so if you want to listen to music and browse the web, you’re out of luck. It also doesn’t have GPS, or a camera.
From what I gather, the iPad is an oversized, stripped down iPhone without the phone. Yeah it has a full size keyboard, but is it really worth $599 for a 32 GB iPad when a 32 GB iPhone is $299?
The iPad is set to hit Apple stores in April. There are already rumors of a more MacBook-like version set to succeed the iPhone-like iPad. Is this another game-changer from Apple? What’s the value of cornering the netbook market — the small, niche netbook market?
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