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I know that my iPad will be arriving any second now but the thing that has me so excited is a piece of Apple software: iPhoto for iPad. I updated my current iPad to iOS 5.1 and immediately went to buy iPhoto. WOW!! I can’t say enough amazing things about it. First, I’m no Photoshop [...]

The biggest surprise of the new iPad announcement was none of the specs or features, it was the name. Most predictions were iPad 3 or iPad HD. Instead, it is just iPad. At first this caught me by surprise but then quickly realized it made sense. With one major caveat, Apple only uses brand extensions [...]

Apparently I’m going to keep pounding on this point because I think it is really important. Jim Dalrymple wrote yesterday, “The PC industry has spent an incredible amount of time and money trying to convince us that computers (netbooks or ultrabooks) are what we really want to use. The problem is, that’s not true.” M.G. [...]

Interesting stats courtesy of Tim Bray: $350 for Apple · They’re obviously the best at turning a profit on selling phones. As Asymco reports, Apple gets about $650 per iPhone, has a margin around 55%, and thus makes a gross profit of $350 or so apiece. $590 for AT&T · I went and dug through their 2011 Q3 [...]

Hello, Google Play: Google launches sweeping revamp of app, book, music, and video stores Smart move by Google, I think, to rebrand its content store. It doesn’t make sense to call it the Android Store when it includes all markets, including Chrome books, Android and Google TV. I assume the content can be run on Mac [...]