In-stat show some interesting statistics forecasting up until 2014. Basically in a nut shell: Desktop PC will continue to decline while notebooks and other mobile form factors begin to overtake.
For some reason they’re counting iPads as a mobile computer but not counting any other smartphones even though iPhone and iPod are just smaller siblings. I wonder how the bar graph will look when everything is added.
Does this make any sense to you? The new iPod touch will come in 3 sizes: 8GB, 32GB, and 64GB. But at $229, why would anybody even buy the 8GB? And where is the 16GB? What’s with the huge gap? Why even make the 8GB in the first place?!
It should have been 16GB, 32GB and 64GB at those prices. Come on Apple, the new enclosure can’t cost that much!
Let’s see what we have here: bug fixes, HDR (OMG), 720p video upload (been available to jailbreakers for a while now), TV show rentals (is this a pre-amble to what’s later to come out of the Apple event today?) and Game Center.
The HDR is being demoed on stage right now and it’s pretty awesome. 1 key press will trigger 3 shutters and the OS will automatically create the HDR image. I wish my DSLR does this!
More to come as the day passes.
So far Rogers, Fido and Telus have confirmed iPhone 4 rollout. Bell will most definitely be participating as well when the time is near.
By the end of September 2010, iPhone 4 should ship in 88 countries in total. I hope Apple lives up to this because video chat on a mobile device is most definitely going to change everything, all over again.
FaceTime’s demo at WWDC 2010 and the hands-on videos look amazing. I will be very interested on the real world applications of this. I can literally call a medical service, and instead of describing my symptoms, they can also see me and my surroundings! Imagine a bomb situation, you can have your explosives experts thousands of kilometres away and give you instructions based on the setup they see over FaceTime. Wow.
I don’t think anyone noticed, but during the keynote at WWDC 2010 Steve Jobs announced a 10 million FaceTime devices shipment figure. He didn’t say 10 million iPhone 4s, he said 10 million FaceTime devices. Is he rumouring a possible iPod touch and iPad refresh that will implement iPhone 4′s dual-camera system? iPod touch and iPad already have microphone built-in. Simply adding the camera system will make any other video calling solution obsolete. Apple better integrate this into iChat as well. I would hate for the actual Mac users to miss out. I sure hope the plan is to have all iDevices refreshed. I can definitely use an iPad 2 by Christmas and millions of 10 year olds will be wanting an iPod touch 4.
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