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Apple sold 2 millions iPad, expected to reach 6.2 millions in 2010

Jun

4

Apple announced that it sold 2 million iPads in less than two months. That means Apple has sold about 34,000 per day on average. Apple reached its first million sales of the iPad in just 28 days.

The announcement comes just days after the iPad started selling into international markets, shipping units in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray issued a note to investors Tuesday, in which he upped his 2010 sales estimates to 6.2 million in 2010.

Tags: apple, ipad
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How to watch DivX videos on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

May

25

Mauro Dalu

Stream live video to your iPad, virtually any format gets converted live by an app called Air Video. No jailbreak required!

Yesterday night I wanted to watch a TV series on my iPad in the bedroom, but I had it on a DVD encoded with the popular DivX codec. Of corse, the iPad and the iPhone do not support any video codec other than MPEG-4 H.264 with MP3 or AAC audio out of the box and you just can’t add anything that is not Apple-approved unless you jailbreak the device.

I thought I was back to the pre-iPad era: before I got the “magic tablet” I had to move the MacBook, the power adapter, track down the dedicated IKEA pillow… No more!

Tags: air video, divx, ipad, ipod touch, streaming
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More than 1 million iPads sold, iPad 3G sold out, international sales just starting

May

22

Mauro Dalu

Apple has sold nearly 90 million iPhone OS devices worldwide, and recently announced it has sold more than a million iPad devices. Meanwhile, the iPad 3G remains completely sold out in the U.S. weeks after its release.

“One million iPads in 28 days — that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “Demand continues to exceed supply,” he claimed, “and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”

Tags: app store, ipad, iphone, iphone os, ipod touch
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The great tablet catch-up

May

21

Brad Midgley

It doesn’t matter if people understand your business model or not… if you sell a million of anything in 28 days, the competition will soon be clawing to get into the game. Apple is seeing some potential for competition.

The other tablets are coming in a few classes of devices.

Several models will run Windows 7. While I think that will represent something useful for some people, it remains to be seen how tablet-friendly Windows 7 software will become. On top of

Tags: android, google, ipad, iphone, iphoneos, tablet
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What the iPad did to personal computing

May

12

Mauro Dalu

The iPad. Hate it, love it, addicted to it?… reactions are all over the web, the only thing you can’t do is ignore the new “magical” device from Apple. Steve Jobs finally reached the target he and Wozniak had when they initially started working together: the iPad is the first computer for people that don’t really need a computer. Housekeepers, wives (or the rare non-tech husbands), children, grandmas and grandpas… all of them just fall in love with Apple’s tablet device.

Tags: apple, ipad, steve jobs, user experience
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Interface Builder not in sync with Xcode: can’t see images classes and project status is yellow or gray

Apr

23

Mauro Dalu

Ever since upgrading Apple’s iPhone SDK to 3.2 beta and 3.2 final now, I started experiencing this issue: Interface Builder (IB for friends) didn’t recognize, show or list the images in “nib” files associated to an Xcode project.

Other symptom of the problem is Interface Builder not being kept in sync with an Xcode project when adding or altering outlets and actions and then do a Save.

The solution is bizarre and makes me think there’s been a total lack of care from Apple in releasing this XCode as a final version…

Tags: interface builder, ipad, iphone, iphone sdk, xcode
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iPad ready for the big launch with exclusive apps, 30,000 free books, adult content

Mar

30

Mauro Dalu

Analyst Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley said suppliers for the iPad have currently forecast 2.5 million iPads to be shipped from March to May 2010: Apple would ship between 8 million and 10 million by the end of 2010. This number is much higher than the expectation of 5 million that was forecasted so far. The upward revisions to iPad build rates “point to strong initial pre-orders.”

While video demonstrations of the iPad software including Safari browser, iBooks, Keynote, Pages and Numbers have been posted on Apple’s Web site, with videos that show many uses of the iPad, including its ability to be docked and utilized as a digital picture frame, how are Apple and the developers community preparing to the iPad launch?

Tags: app store, apple, ibookstore, ipad, itunes
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How to build your own iPad in real-size for prototyping.

Mar

23

Mauro Dalu

Magical, revolutionary, and very difficult to get how great it is without having it in your hands. That’s what Steve Jobs said, right?… And how does he expect his fellow developers to create apps for this before the iPad comes to market if he doesn’t spare units to developers?

AppleInsider reports only a very few selected companies got the iPad, and they had to agree to keep the Apple tabled hidden in a room without windows (no kidding!) and never show it to their grandma.

All others, like us, are just left out of the game, and people around the globe are inventing apps for a device they never saw. Well that’s what I’m doing now at least. So just how big is this iPad thing?

Tags: design, ipad, prototyping, user experience, ux
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