Filed under: Macworld, TUAW Business
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Macworld 2010! Several TUAW team members will be in San Francisco for the biggest expo of the year for the Apple faithful, including
David Winograd,
Ken Ray,
Brett Terpstra,
Mike Schramm,
Steve Sande,
Mike Rose,
Dave Caolo and
myself. Despite Apple’s
bailing on the event, the good folks behind Macworld have put together a week’s worth of amazing learning and product demos plus talks with Kevin Smith, Guy Kawasaki, Leo Laporte among others.
This year TUAW will have a booth (number 654, come on down and say “Hi!”) and we’ll be livestreaming video from the show floor. We’ll have plenty of hands-on video from the floor and around the show as well, plus our usual stream of posts and galleries. It’ll feel like you’re there!
We’ve got a few more surprises in store, so stay tuned for more details on Monday.
By the way, huge thanks to Paul Kent and the folks at IDG World Expo for Macworld and the enthusiastic support of the community at large.
TUAWTUAW is going to Macworld 2010 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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by admin on February 5, 2010
Mossberg was on “The Charlie Rose” show this past Thursday to discuss the upcoming Apple iPad.
Filed under: Software, iBook, Apple
Amazon has run into more trouble with its pricing — after Macmillan and HarperCollins, a third company has pressured the online book retailer to raise prices on their Kindle eBooks. This time it’s the Hachette Book Group, and their CEO in an internal memo says that the company will switch to an “agency model” for eBook sales.
What’s an agency model? Why, it’s the 70%/30% split between platform and content provider currently used in the App Store, and the same model that’s planned to be used in iBooks on the iPad. And it’s important to note that this is exactly what Jobs said would happen — that publishers would move away from Amazon when they had another system to go with.
What we don’t yet know is where prices will end up on the iPad — Jobs said that prices would be “the same,” and it’s looking more and more like the $9.99 bestseller price is going to be abandoned for $14.99 or even higher. But that’s only because Amazon is fighting shadows with the iPad right now. If they can actually woo some content back to their side when the iPad actually releases, we may see prices get a little more competitive. Until then, the iPad hasn’t even come out and it’s already shaking up the ebook industry completely.
TUAWMore eBook trouble for Amazon originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Video, Cult of Mac, Apple, Found Footage
This video of Woz talking about the “revolutionary” idea of putting color into computers is amazing. It sounds like an LSD trip — he says he was awake for four days in a row, plunged into some sort of television screenglow madness, and somehow emerged from this zeroes-and-ones induced frenzy with a cheap way to create color screens (which we presume eventually found its way in the Apple II).
This is why Woz is really the preeminent geek for our times — he’s done some brilliant things with computers, really helped revolutionize the industry, and invented from scratch some of the most amazing things in this already amazing age, and when asked how he did it, he doesn’t credit his own intellect or any personal insight. He says he stayed up for four days, and “sometimes, you’re not sure if it’s going to work because it didn’t follow all of the methodology, all of the science that’s in the books… but in this case it did.” That is quintessential Woz — way before marketing types put together the “Think Different” slogan, this guy was living it.
[via Cult of Mac]
TUAWFound Footage: Woz on coloring computers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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by admin on February 5, 2010
Microsoft said it will no longer sell banner ads on Facebook, leaving the social network with sole control over selling the graphical ads that appear on the site.
Amazon today confirmed that it has put back Macmillan’s titles on both the Kindle store and in its regular store. The move follows after Amazon agreed to raise prices on e-books last weekend as the result of a three-day standoff. Amazon had unsuccessfully tried to withdraw books as a negotiating tactic to keep prices at $10….
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by admin on February 5, 2010
Could Apple’s future as a multichannel video distributor lie not with AppleTV but with the iPad? Might the “best of TV” iTunes subscription offering the company has been pitching to TV networks since last November be primarily intended for that device and not the company’s sleeper AppleTV platform?
Filed under: Hardware, Software, App Store
Here at TUAW, we’ve talked about some potential markets for the iPad; for example, the health care industry. Over at Flying Magazine’s website, blogger Robert Goyer is lusting after the iPad as a tool in the cockpit.
The iPhone has become a pilot’s toolkit since the App Store opened, with apps like Flight Plan – Pilot’s Toolbox [iTunes Link] and CoPilot – Flight Planning [iTunes Link] making it into the cockpit for private and commercial pilots alike.
Goyer loves the idea that the iPad will have a much larger display than the iPhone and, most importantly for the quick pace of flying, that it’s an instant-on device unlike many laptops. He thinks that the 3G models will be most useful for aviation since they’ll provide online access to a plethora of aviation, regulatory, and weather-related data sources.
What Goyer is looking forward to the most about the iPad is that extra screen real estate. As he says in his post, he’ll likely go with a netbook for situations when he’s not in the cockpit. But while flying, the iPad’s “brilliant display” and GPS capability should make it “supremely easy to use” for pilots needing map apps. We can’t wait to see what flies into view.
[Thanks to @RyanACash for the Twitter tip]
TUAWFlying Magazine blogger wants an iPad in the cockpit originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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