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Enterprise to snatch up 5,000% more tablets in 2011; Apple stands to benefit
Most analysts, critics, and even the most optimistic of Apple fanboys couldn’t have predicted the wild success Apple enjoyed with the iPad. With over 15 million units sold in 2010, sales of Apple’s “magical” tablet exceeded even the most bullish of sales expectations.
Continue reading...Bill of Materials on the iPad 2 just slightly higher than the original
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Apple’s newest iPad continues to fly off store shelves, and though the device comes with some new hardware like front and rear facing video cameras, the device’s BOM (bill of materials) checks in at nearly the same price as the original. iSuppli tore apart the 32GB iPad 2 and found that the GSM model has […]
Continue reading...Hungarian politician Jozsef Szajer using an iPad to draft new constitution
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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Network World reports that the new Hungarian constitution is being drafted by an iPad. Jozsef Szajer, a Hungarian politician and member of the European Parliament, wrote an enthusiastic blogpost last week detailing how he’s using Apple’s tablet device to flesh out Hungary’s new constitution, the country’s first since 1949. As a point of interest, Hungary […]
Continue reading...Sign number 34 that Consumer Reports isn’t on the ball
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Consumer Reports writes: One major difference in tech specs is that the iPad 2 has a new processor that’s supposed to make it far speedier than the original,” Fox reports. “While performing routine tasks such as Web browsing and e-mail in our tests, we didn’t notice any significant speed improvement.” You know, it’s hard to […]
Continue reading...Marco Ament on why competitors can’t keep up with the iPad
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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2011 has already been dubbed “The year of the tablet.” And with a bevy of iPad competitors poised to hit store shelves in the coming months, “The year of the wannabe tablets” might be a bit more apropos. Or, as Steve Jobs snidely remarked, 2011 is poised to be the “year of the copycats.” As […]
Continue reading...Number of Apple Stores to open an hour early tomorrow due to iPad 2 demand
Monday, March 14, 2011
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With iPad fever sweeping the nation, Apple is having a tougher time meeting demand than they probably anticipated. With online order wait times now at 3-4 weeks, your best bet at acquiring an iPad 2 is to pick one up at a local Best Buy, Walmart, or Apple retail store. Adjusting to intense demand, AppleBitch […]
Continue reading...Benchmarking the iPad 2
Monday, March 14, 2011
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Steve Jobs said that the graphics performance on the iPad 2 was 9 times faster than on the iPad 1. That’s a bold claim, but recent testing by Anandtech confirms that the iPad 2 is a beast. The GPU powering the iPad 2 is the PowerVR SGX543MP2. Architecturally the 543MP2 has more than twice the […]
Continue reading...Apple calls iPad 2 demand “Amazing” as weekend sales estimates inch towards 1 million
Monday, March 14, 2011
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iPad 2 launch day has come and gone and let’s just say that the folks up in Cupertino must be happy. With sellouts across the country and ridiculously long lines that often stretched around full city blocks, consumers were snatching up the iPad 2 in droves. A number of Best Buy outlets, for example, said […]
Continue reading...How to re-enable new iOS 4.3 multitouch gestures
Monday, March 14, 2011
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One of the iOS 4.3 betas brought with it some new and interesting multi-touch gestures for the iPad, some of which included a 4-finger pinch to go back to the home screen and swipe up gesture that brings up the multitasking pane. While some prematurely speculated that the new gestures would spell the end for […]
Continue reading...Video of the enormous iPad 2 line in New York City
Monday, March 14, 2011
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People will line up for hours on end for concert tickets, sporting events, and quite uniquely in the realm of tech, Apple products. The iPad 2 launch this Friday afternoon resulted in impressive lines at Apple retail stores around the country, with the line at one Apple Store in San Francisco stretching around a full […]
Continue reading...82% of prospective tablet consumers plan on getting an iPad
Sunday, March 13, 2011
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The tablet market may be heating up, but with the iPad 2 generating enormous lines around the country, Apple doesn’t seem to have anything to worry about. In a ChangeWave survey of 3,091 consumers conducted in February, 27% of respondents indicated plans to purchase a tablet in the future. Of that pool, 82% of them […]
Continue reading...Thanks to 512 MB of RAM, Safari browsing on the iPad 2 is much improved
Saturday, March 12, 2011
As expected, teardowns of the iPad 2 confirm that Apple’s new tablet comes with 512 MB of LPDDR2 RAM. The original iPad came with 256 MB of LPDDR1 RAM. One of the immediate improvements users of the iPad 2 will experience as a result is a smoother browsing experience on mobile Safari. In the video […]
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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