While it may take a month or so, maybe two months, if Apple can’t help it, for Machines in Malaysia to clear it’s stock — albeit at a loss — before the new iPad hits the shore of bad politicians and corrupted voting system. Let us not forget in a few weeks after the March [...]
I have recently acquired a piece of Amazon’s graphite coloured Kindle DX so I can read news and other periodicals when I really don’t want to be tempted by all the games on the iPad. However, with Apple’s new iPad, Amazon has no real choice but to keep dropping it’s price to keep the book [...]
The hardware is sweet, iMovie for iPad makes sense, and GarrageBand for iPad is nothing short of awesome, what can I say other than “I want one too”? But I think the most important thing Steve has said at this event, was that PC is dead, since Steve Jobs Apple coined the term “Personal Computer”, [...]
Jean-Louis Gassée wrote in Monday Note: Even more important: profits. HP is the leading PC manufacturer, with quarterly revenues in the $10B range and 5% operating income. Apple makes only a third of HP’s PC dollar volume per quarter—but with an operating income in the 30% to 35% range. We’ll have numbers for the October-December [...]
For those who are speculating a January iPad 2 launch based on a rumour that came from a Chinese tech blog, Steve’s December 16 announcement will surely dampen their enthusiasm; yes, Apple is launching something on January 6, which happens to fall on the same day as the opening of CES 2011 and it is [...]
Apple released an update that adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11: Canon PowerShot G12 Leica D-Lux 5 Leica V-Lux 2 Nikon D7000 Nikon COOLPIX P7000 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 And if you have the older iPod Nano, has released a firmware that improves pronunciation for [...]
This is definitely one of the coolest things that will grace my iPhone. I wish it does Japanese.
The last time I checked, I have a number of iPods lying around that have been gathering dust for a while. I currently carry an iPod Nano for audio podcasts and long distance “rhythmic noise generation” — playing music that cuts of the noise from outside when I am taking a bus or something; I [...]
For the benefit of those who do not know this Southeast Asian country call Malaysia; this is a country where most of the wealthy people are concentrated in the capital city Kuala Lumpur. There used to be other big cities in the Northern parts of the Peninsular with Ipoh and Penang being two of these [...]
Vincent’s Little Birds may be right: I have tried to search the Malaysian Customs and Excise papers to see if the iPad launched in Malaysia along with 10 other countries on November 11 was classified under personal entertainment item like the iPods, but this is not an easy thing to do considering they probably hired [...]