Living outside the US but anxiously rubbing your hands together waiting for your imported iPad to arrive? Problem is, Apple may not be happy with you bypassing their launch schedule, and are seemingly punishing such users by blocking on-device iPad App Store access. The Apple tablet is tipped to go sale officially in the UK from [...]
Everytime a new gadget arrives on the market, after the inevitable teardowns there’s a great whipping out of calculators and a triumphant cry “this only cost $XXX in parts!” The iPad is no different, and analysts iSuppli reckon components for the tablet amount to $259.60.
Unsurprisingly, the most significant contributors to that figure are related to [...]
So, over 300,000 iPads sold on day one, but who exactly was buying them? Apple-obsessed Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster reckons the majority were already happily drinking the Cupertino kool-aid; he interviewed 448 iPad buyers and found that 74-percent already owned a Mac computer and 66-percent owned an iPhone.
Apple have announced sales figures for the iPad’s first day of availability, and as you might expect they’re glowing. Pre-orders, Apple Store sales and iPads sold through Apple’s channel partners amounted to over 300,000 units in the period from 9am EST to midnight on Saturday April 3rd.
Amazon have announced that the Kindle for iPad app has made it through Apple’s approval process and is now in the App Store. The free app automatically syncs with ebooks bought through Amazon’s service, and synchronizes your reading position with other Kindle hardware and software.
To be honest, we’d been a little curious as to whether [...]
As we heard would be the case yesterday, Marvel have officially revealed their new Marvel Comics app for iPad. Available to download now, the app itself is free but individual comics are priced at $1.99 per issue; 500 titles will be available at launch, and Marvel will be including the first issues of New Avengers, [...]
iPad development is pulling in coders from other platforms… unless it’s not. In the run up to iPad launch day, two conflicting reports have emerged discussing developer attitudes to iPhone OS and Google’s Android platform. A WSJ report suggests that the fast-incoming tablet “is boosting developer interest in Apple’s store because the device is set [...]
iPhone and iPod touch owners know how easy it can be to rack up a sizeable bill after going for a spree in the App Store, but according to some early calculations the iPad could leave you significantly out of pocket. After a video showing the iPad App Store was published, The Consumerist whipped out [...]
You’d better hope and pray your new iPad doesn’t go wrong in the first few days of ownership: according to a Reuters report, the Apple Genius Bar staff who are usually the first port of call for technical problems have no idea how to actually fix it. That’s a side-effect of Apple’s usual overwhelming secrecy, [...]
Having seen leaked ebook pricing details for the iPad yesterday, today it’s the turn of digital magazines to get some early figures. The WSJ – somewhat comically quoting leaky sources giving information about its own digital media team – claims that digital subscribers to the electronic version of its own paper will be charged $17.99 [...]
While details of the US 3G pricing plans for the iPad have been known from day one, pricing for the integrated cellular data connection outside of the US are still unclear. However, a new leak in Germany newspaper Heise has seemingly revealed details of the data plans Apple have negotiated with carrier T-Mobile Germany.
According to [...]
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