Yumcha

Notice I gave 2K for the true hardcores. Like you guys.

Yumcha

Still, it is impressive I suppose...would've thought the number was alot lower.

Someone in a very nice corner office in Paolo Alto is sipping some nice wine and looking at his bonus check for the genius of his/her marketing.

Mizouse

Yea, but there are lot of people using them.
I see tons on the train ride into Downtown SF, and during lunch in the financial district.

Yumcha

Must be more prevalent in the West Coast.

Mizouse

What's interesting is that jobs is only paid $1 by apple.
Of course he has like stock options and what not.

Tim cook makes 900,000 a year.



Boy do I feel worthless

srika

oh ok. I thought you were talking about PC's

jupitersolo

ah, those suck as well.

#1 STUNNA

That didn't stop apple from selling tens millions of iPhone 3G and 3GS'

#1 STUNNA

Oh yeah!!! Adblocker yeah!!!

I did the untethered JB for my iPad last night and just installed adblocker!!! Since I already purchased it for my iPhone 4 it was free on my iPad!! Oh and I gots my orientation lock back!!

#1 STUNNA

Holy Shit, Flipboard! I haven't gotten into to the news reading on the iPad, until now! I don't think anyone else has either, the iPad is supposed to be saving newspapers but it doesn't seem to be doing a good job. Sales of newspaper and magazine apps are horrendous. I tried out BBC, NYT, etc. and I never liked them.

Then I tried Flipboard! I heard about it when it came out but never bothered with it but a few days ago I downloaded it on a whim and I quickly configured it and then spent about 2hrs reading the news! I NEVER do that! Apparently it won 2010 app of the year or some shit, whatever it was it deserved it! Facebook looks really cool on it! I like it better than Friendly. It makes reading facebook like reading a magazine. I can't really describe it just watch this video.

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you can customize it, so I've added Cnet, engadget, gizmodo, facebook, my flickr account, bbc, WSJ, NYT, Fox News, CNN and others and I can read article from all those sites all at once. It's really neat!

Sarlacc

daily news is supposed to be the end all be all news reading app...when it finally get released.

flipboard is supposed to be a great news/social networking/blah blah blah app.

#1 STUNNA

I though most people were predicting a crash and burn of daily news, we'll see....

It's getting a lot of press

srika

glad to see the ipad is doing so well. really.

lightjak_tsx

doopstr

I like the CNBC app.

Mizouse

Great latest rumors says the resolution will be the same

doopstr

They have to be careful about the screen res. They just sold a shit load of ipad 1s. If new apps only support ipad 2 because of higher resolution there is going to be a lot of pissed off people.

srika

agreed on this but "1080p" is gonna be the buzzword of the 2010's for "personal" devices. And they probably know that if they don't do it, the other makers will.

oh and, "pissing people off" has never stopped them in the past. in fact, it may even be a part of their sales tactic - it makes their products MORE desirable.

jupitersolo

I'm not sure, 1080p really isn't notice until 30" or so, not many TV makers even make 1080p TV's until over 40".

srika

and nobody knew what to do with 40mb of hard drive space in 1989.

Yumcha

But, you're still gonna line up a month ahead to get one, right...? Cuz, it's purdy.

srika

I personally will love to have 1080p in even a 10" device. Being a HD "purist" kind of junkie, it bugs me to all hell when the video needs to be downsized to match a resolution. The other utility will be having a portable device which outputs true quality 1080p video - this means you will be able to take your movies with you anywhere and plugin to any 1080p TV and watch in full-resolution glory. This is the wave of the future, for sure.

does the ipad output to HDMI? If not, it better soon, because the other makers will have it standard.

Yumcha

Okay, serious question: will the next gen have Flash...? And how's their relationship with Google?

#1 STUNNA

No it won't have flash and Apple has no plans of dropping google services. They know it would make an inferior product so they aren't going to go that route and I don't think Google will backout either

Yumcha

Interesting...so, while Google is making an Android operated tablet device, they will also continue to offer support to a competitor?

srika

Google is universal.

#1 STUNNA

Yes, iOS is a huge market for them. MS continues to make Office for Mac, Apple makes iTunes and Safari for Windows, etc.

#1 STUNNA

Here's what Steve has to say....

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doopstr

No, it outputs to an AppleTV, which has HDMI

Yumcha

Yeah...I <3 Google.

yohan81718

apple has no search engine..

nothing to lose for apple in that market while google sustains their user

win win imo

srika

ghey, i'll get one of the other brands. lol.

Mizouse

No it has output but thru component/composite and VGA adaptor.
Component is only 480p max.

VGA is 1024x768 resolution.


And doopster support for higher res is up to the app developer.
It'll be just like the 4 with it's retina display vs older iPhone devices.

Mizouse

Also there is a rumor if the iPad getting a mini display port. But I highly doubt it.

Mini HDMI would be better but I doubt that too.

srika

forgot I have Blu-ray and HDMI out on my laptop, but it's a tad large at 17". But, I think its plenty fine for some sweet portable output.

Mizouse

And output via apple tv is wireless so it is kind of nice. But it's limited to 720p due to the apple tv onLy outputting at 720p.

srika

two thumbs DOWN

Mizouse

I say one thumb up for wireless and one down for 720p.

But that could change with a updated apple tv.
Rumor has that if it gets this supposed A5 chip it will have 1080p.
The new A5 supposedly chews thru 1080p like butter.

srika

wireless is not where it needs to be yet for quality consistent 1080p output. So, I don't care about that. give me a wire and true 1080p HD. In the near future though, say a few years, we will have quality 1080p wireless output.

Mizouse

Yea no thanks in dealing with wires.

Plus on the current iPad. You can be outputting wirelessly and still use the iPad for other stuff.