Apple has just released its Q2 2013 earnings report, announcing sales of 37.4 million iPhones in the quarter ending March. Apple also reported 19.5 million iPad units sold, which shows incredibly strong growth for Apple’s tablet business.
This is a slight decrease from last quarter, which included a holiday sales spike and being the first full quarter in which the iPhone 5 was available.
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Backed or Whacked first explored the murky underworld of iPad wearing devices last November. The GoPad saw its Kickstarter campaign whacked despite a temptation-inducing expository video. With a resounding harumph regarding Kickstarter’s unfriendliness toward sales-oriented projects, inventor Peter Kielland tried again on Indiegogo. Unfortunately, he also fell short there, collecting less than $ 1,000 of his $ 50,000 goal.
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If you’ve been lusting after Apple’s latest tablet offerings but couldn’t muster the funds to snag one, you just might have your chance now. Seemingly a rite of passage for Apple products, the Cupertino company is now offering the iPad Mini and the 4th-gen iPad for slightly cheaper prices as refurbs. Depending on the model, they’re on sale for anywhere from six to ten percent off. For example, the 16GB 4th-gen iPad sans LTE is now $ 449 after a $ 50 discount, while an LTE-free 32GB Mini is $ 389 after a $ 40 discount. Not every single iteration is in stock at the moment — the base 16GB Mini isn’t listed, for instance — but we’re sure the inventory will be filled out soon enough. Have a peek at the source to see if you can score yourself a sweet deal on a bonafide Apple tablet that’s almost as good as new.
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A patent application published today suggests a way to charge an iPad using a Smart Cover outfitted with the necessary charging technology. [Read more]
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Over the last several years, HBO has been making its streaming video product more attractive to users, by adding more and more devices that users can stream its programming on. At the D: Dive Into Media conference today, HBO President and COO Eric Kessler said that the company is enabling AirPlay streaming for its HBO apps, enabling iOS users to stream video from the iPhone and iPad to the Apple TV. The addition of AirPlay comes not long after a report surfaced that HBO would be rolling out a standalone app for the Apple TV. (Updating…)
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If you like the very best, you’ll be happy to here that the biggest capacity, most expensive iPad yet has now landed at the Apple Store online. US customers can pick from AT&T, Sprint or Verizon to power their 128GB LTE model ($ 929), although AT&T has a reduced waiting time of 1-3 days, compared to 3-5 business days for the other two carriers. Expect the WiFi iteration ($ 799) to arrive within three days — that is, if you place your order at the source today.
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Apple’s iPad led the charge as total worldwide tablet shipments hit a record of 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to IDC’s preliminary data from its Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, but its market share continued to slide due to competition from Samsung. Meanwhile, PC shipments declined during the quarter for the first time in more than five years. The tablet market grew 75.3% year-over-year, and increased 74.3% from the previous quarter’s total of 30.1 million units, helped along by holiday purchases, lower average selling prices and a wider range of products.
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Life in a zoo has its perks, but a multitude of ways to keep entertained probably isn’t one of them. To ensure that its apes have enough “variety and enrichment” in their lives as possible, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo turned to Orangutan Outreach and Apps for Apes, bringing iPads to the primates. You can check
Orangutans at the Smithsonian's National Zoo are now using iPad apps to keep occupied
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Apple has repeatedly stressed that China is important to its bottom line, but it faces a dilemma given the premium associated with its name: when it can take weeks’ worth of typical pay to buy an iOS device, let alone a Mac, many locals either have to save up or else turn to alternatives. The company may not have truly low-cost devices — at least, not yet — but it is offering an olive branch in the form of installment plans. Chinese who order from the online Apple Store with a China Merchants Bank credit card can now buy virtually anything priced between ¥300 and ¥30,000 ($ 48 to $ 4,821) using up to 24 payments spread over two years. Much like in other countries, there’s higher additional fees the longer the installments carry on. The strategy only helps a certain segment of the population for whom the up-front cost is the lone obstacle; that may be enough in the near future, though, given that there’s still significant demand.
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OTG Management, which runs restaurants and other concessions in airports, has found that using iPads and self-service tech can be good for business. And it doesn’t cost jobs.
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Modern Apple owes pretty much everything to the iMac. Yes, it was the iPod and later the iPhone and iPad that took the company to new, almost unimaginable heights. But as everyone knows, the company was at death’s door when Steve Jobs unveiled the “Bondi Blue” iMac in 1998. The iMac saved Apple, giving the company the time to do everything else that followed.
But as we enter 2013, the world is a much different place than 1998. Beyond the aforementioned iPods, iPhones, and iPads, in the “traditional” computing space, everyone seems to be using a laptop nowadays. In fact, something like three quarters of Apple’s Mac sales are now made up of their MacBook lines.
And yet, the iMac still exists.
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Initiative is part of a curriculum overall at the University of Western Sydney that will stress a “blended learning model.” [Read more]
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In an attack of holiday spirit, Best Buy admits it made a mistake in sending a customer five iPads instead of one. The company says the customer should give the extras to people in need. [Read more]
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Apple’s iPad and iPad Mini took top honors in a pair of tablet battery shootouts conducted by consumer watchdogs in the U.S. and the U.K.
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Apple today cut Mac laptop prices up to 10% and iPad prices as much as 9% during its typically tightfisted one-day “Black Friday” deals.
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Chance are, if you ask a kid in the U.S. what they want to find under the tree (or holiday symbol of your choosing) this year, they’ll ask for an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or iPad mini. Those devices occupied four of the top five spots on Nielsen’s annual holiday shopping study among kids aged 6 to 12, which tracks interest in consumer buying habits over the next six months.
alphadogg writes “A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $ 1.5 million — from the same cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in GoodFellas, according to the New York Post. The crooks struck shortly before midnight on Monday and used one of the airport’s own forklifts to load two pallets of the tablet computers into a truck, according to law-enforcement sources. It’s been a crazy year for iPad/iPhone thefts in New York City and elsewhere.”
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The Nexus 10 tablet one ups Apple on some device-defining specifications and does so at a lower price. [Read more]
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The latest rumor suggests that the standard iPad will get an upgrade as the little iPad is launched. But why not follow skirts and offer a range of options? [Read more]
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Here’s a neat, well-deserved win for a startup company: Paper, the critically acclaimed drawing application for iPad is now being featured by Apple on iPad demo units in its retail stores, and now has over 3.3 million downloads, with 25 million pages of drawings created by users. The time spent in-app creating Color journals adds up to almost 200 years in total.
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Walmart has the lowest price ever on the third-generation iPad — but there’s a catch. Plus: a free movie when you link Roku to Vudu!
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You don’t have to wait for an FAA rethink to use your iPad on an airliner below 10,000 feet — if you’re part of an American Airlines crew, that is. As of this month, the air carrier is the first cleared by the FAA to use iPads in the cockpit at every point during a flight. The program starts just with Boeing 777 pilots at first, but it should eventually grow to save $ 1.2 million in weight-related fuel costs per year across the airline, not to mention a few trees and the strain of 35-pound flight bags. American is confident enough in the tablet switchover that it plans to stop handing out any paper updates to its charts and manuals as of January, just days after its entire fleet gets the regulatory nod for iPads at the end of this year. We just wouldn’t anticipate Android or Windows tablet rollouts anytime soon. American isn’t opposed to the concept, but it’s only promising that slates beyond the iPad will be “evaluated for use” if and when the FAA applies its rubber stamp.
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The FAA gives approval for the airline to be the first commercial carrier to toss out its paper-based flight manuals in lieu of iPads — saving the airline $ 1.2 million in gas costs.
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It was a moving ceremony. The bride and groom were both clutching iPads as they tweeted “I do” to the world. Wonder what the honeymoon was like.
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The digital breadcrumbs left behind when people use Internet-connected gadgets are what led California investigators to recover iMacs, iPads and other items stolen from the home of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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The company posts gross margins of between 49 percent and 58 percent on U.S. iPhone sales, compared to 23 percent to 32 percent for its iPad, according to a court filing.
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If you have acquaintances who happen to work at your local Apple Store, it’s time to become better friends with them. Apple has announced a new employee discount program that knocks a significant amount of money off the purchase price of popular Apple gadgets. The new discount program is valid for Macs and iPads. The
Video in tablet magazines and similar apps sometimes — okay, often — comes across as a grafted-on extra. Condition One, a startup by war photographer Danfung Dennis, wants to make video an intrinsic part of the experience by taking advantage of the motion sensors in smartphones and tablets. Video shot from a DSLR or similar camera is converted into a 180-degree format that you can swipe or tilt through on an iOS device to get a more involving look. It’s a lot more lively than plain movies, and Dennis sees the technique being used for documentaries and tours where it would help to put viewers directly in the action. Producers only need off-the-shelf hardware and software, too. There’s a show-off app at the source link to get an overall sense of what the footage is like, but if you’re looking for the first official projects, a pilot project has just started that’s bringing apps from Discovery, Mercedes-Benz, Popular Science (below), The Guardian and XL Recordings.
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What if you took 3.1 million pixels, per iPad, and then crammed 100 (or so) of them on a table at WWDC? You’d have a pretty insane, super-connected Retina table. Also, it’d cost at least $ 50,000 to replicate what you’re seeing. You know — just in case the thought crossed your mind.
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What is 4G? Many an armchair philosopher over the past few weeks has pondered this concept and now, thanks to a minor tempest caused by upset customers, Apple has changed their iPad branding from “WiFi+4G” to “WiFi+Cellular.”
Although the iPads were compatible with US 4G networks, the iPads didn’t work with international 4G connections, thereby dropping a few folks in Australia into a tizzy. To prevent this, Apple put the old moniker down the memory hole and replaced it with the new naming convention.
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A survey suggests that tablets and smartphones are swiftly catching up to jewelry and flowers as gifts that mothers crave (or, at least, feel they deserve) for Mother’s Day.
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A survey suggests that tablets and smartphones are swiftly catching up to jewelry and flowers as gifts that mothers crave (or, at least, feel they deserve) for Mother’s Day.
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With Apple selling 35.1 million iPhones and nearly 12 million iPads over the first financial quarter of 2012, the company’s only more incredible numbers exist in their net profit a whopping 94% increase year-over-year! Apple’s earnings calls are always an impressive event to behold, and this is no exception with Apple’s complete earnings showing their
The new iPad’s chip isn’t exactly slow but falls down in some tests against Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 chip.
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Square may see the iPad to as an excellent retail tool, but Eventbrite thinks Apple’s tablet a box office boon, which is why it created the At The Door app and card reader solution. Eventbrite’s a self-service ticketing platform and its new dongle, which connects via Apple’s 30-pin connector, lets indie event promoters take reader-encrypted credit card payments with any iPad. Meanwhile, the app lets you see on-site and online ticket sales, keep track of customer contact info and balance the books as well. Plus, any payments taken through the app are service fee-free, meaning users only pay for credit card processing. Not only that, you can wirelessly print tickets and receipts via a compatible printer (should you be willing to buy one), too. But before you go planning your personal Woodstock, perhaps you’d like to know how much this ticketing bonanza costs? Well, the app’s free and the reader’s 10 bucks, with Eventbrite handing out 10 dollar account credits in return for those who jump on the bandwagon. If that sounds like something your into, hit the PR after the break for more info or pick one up from the source below.
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According to Chinese media reports, cited by Tech in Asia, more than 200,000 new iPads have already been smuggled into China. Many of these gray market iPads come from the US where online pre-orders and the abundance of retail stores selling the device has made it much easier to obtain. They are reportedly being imported
Apple today said it has sold three million new iPads since the tablet’s unveiling earlier this month. Not surprisingly, the company is pleased with the launch.
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Apple claims the larger battery found in the new iPad will go a long way toward compensating for the tablet’s dramatically increased pixel count. This weekend I got the chance to put the battery’s compensation to the test.
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More than three out of four medical residents at the University of Chicago said tablets allowed them to complete tasks quicker and spend more time on direct patient care.
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Company has already pushed back the shipping date for the iPad by three days or longer for online orders, which will likely drive lines at the stores.
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Apple has sold out of initial supplies of the new iPad in every country where it will launch the tablet on Friday, and is now telling buyers that orders will not ship for up to three weeks.
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Is the new display on the iPad so good that buying the tablet is a no-brainer?
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