What we’re about isn’t making boxes for people to get their jobs done, although we do that well. We do that better than almost anybody in some cases. But Apple’s about something more than that. Apple at the core, its core value is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.
Steve Jobs /via Zee
BRABUS iBusiness Is an Apple Fan’s Dream Mobile Office
The iBusiness is most definitely “the business.” The German-engineered, four-seater luxury sedan is the type of car for people who have drivers, and that’s a very good thing, because there’s no chance you’ll be paying much attention to the road in one of these babies unless you’re being paid to.
Each car comes packed to the gills with outstanding multimedia capabilities, including two iPads in the rear seats with matching Bluetooth keyboards for each. The iPads are capable of controlling every aspect of the S600′s COMAND system, including the radio, navigation system and telephone, in addition to BRABUS’ own custom multimedia functions. Don’t think you’ll be limited to offline or 3G use, either, because the car boasts its own wireless internet via UMTS and HSDPA connections.
As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a Mac mini in the back seat that uses a drop-down 15.2-inch TFT display, Magic Mouse and USB 2.0 ports accessible to both passengers for real computing power. Finally, because you wouldn’t want to use iTunes on the Mac mini or the iPod apps on your two iPads, there’s a 64GB iPod touch in the center console that also controls the whole shebang using a custom BRABUS iOS application.
Apple may be shipping less than 5 percent of the world’s mobile phones and “only” 14 percent of worldwide smartphones but according to a research by Asymco, it managed to grab almost half of the entire industry’s profit share.
While Android fans are cheering the massive rise of their platform through multiple vendors and models, Apple quietly moves towards enlarging its bank account with what is essentially one phone.
HTC isn’t included since their numbers aren’t as comprehensively available as the other manufacturers’.
Market share vs profit. Pick one.
Welcome to the new decade: Java is a restricted platform, Google is evil, Apple is a monopoly and Microsoft are the underdogs
It turns out a few days ago Adobe updated its Photoshop.com Mobile app for iOS and renamed it as Photoshop Express, which made a lot more sense and a lot less mouthful.
Many of you might not know this but Adobe used to run a web project called Photoshop Express about two years ago on the domain photoshop.com. It was designed to be a free and light photo editing web app. They’ve since launched it properly and added links to other services such as Flickr and Facebook but dropped the Express name.
For whatever reason, they’ve now repurposed the name for the iOS app and added iPad compatibility. While the app itself is pretty neat for a light editing app, it’s kind of stupid how you can only launch it in portrait orientation. If you launch the app on the iPad while holding it horizontally, the app will quit and hand over whatever file it was going to open to a random app.
“In a state where SL55s are a fairly common sight, and where no personal information can be gleaned from a license plate number, the act of putting a plate on would actually be the best avenue toward anonymity.
So maybe there’s some other reason Steve Jobs avoids rectangular metal objects with numbers on them — say, to gin up mystique or augment his persona?”
iPad Pages.app. Beautiful. Not useful.
I want document sync. Not import. Not export.
According to a report by Engadget, the Wall Street Journal revealed that former iPhone chief Mark Papermaster never settled on his job at Apple and had difficulties fitting in with the expectations of being an Apple Senior VP.
That confirms my earlier suspicion that there was something much larger behind his departure than simply as a scapegoat, evidenced by how much of iPhone 4 is actually Bob Mansfield’s work and his absence from the iPhone 4 video as well as the press conference.
The New York Times reported that Mark Papermaster is no longer with Apple. His position was Senior Vice President Devices Hardware Engineering. In other words, he was in charge of Apple’s mobile devices including iPad, iPhone and iPods.
His departure has been attributed to the issue surrounding iPhone 4’s controversial antenna although both he and Apple have declined to comment on the reason. Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling said to the NY Times that Papermaster’s responsibilities have since been assumed by Bob Mansfield, Senior VP of Mac Hardware Engineering.
Mansfield is also responsible for the phone’s brand new A4 processor, the excellent retina display and touchscreen technology. According to John Gruber, Papermaster was the antenna guy.
It’s rather strange for someone whose previous roles included 15 years of microprocessor development to be primarily in charge of the antenna despite his position as the head of the iPhone division. Apparently Mansfield expressed his concerns about Papermaster before his hiring.
In the iPhone 4 video, Papermaster was the only relevant Senior VP to be absent and in his place was Bob Mansfield who was given the inclusive title of Senior VP Hardware. Of course, Papermaster could simply be video shy. Now I wonder if he was in Apple’s iPhone 3GS video presentation.
At the iPhone 4 press conference on July 16, Papermaster was notably absent and it was Mansfield who went with the journalists on the campus tour following the event.
Papermaster may have taken the tumble following the so called “antennagate” but it sounds to me that the issue is greater and further than that and predated the public controversy.
By no means I’m suggesting that it was office politics, rather perhaps Papermaster simply wasn’t a good fit at Apple as they initially decided, and Mansfield happened to be the person who was assigned by Steve Jobs or Tim Cook to take over the role both publicly and internally.
The Store link on Apple’s Indonesian site leads to Apple Online Store Vietnam. It’s been like this for quite some time and I’m not sure why Apple hasn’t fixed it.
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