New Apple Tech

Since Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and iPod Touch appeared, industry-watchers have speculated about the death of handheld gaming consoles. Recently published was an analyst’s prediction that by 2014, Apple’s devices would be the main source of growth in mobile games.

Currently Nintendo is dominating the mobile game industry. Nintendo has sold 3.31 million units of the DS device; this is the second highest monthly total ever for a video game platform. Handheld gaming devices were in the spotlight when it comes to the video game industry. Sales were up 7% from 2008, and the nintento DS had a 17% market share.
Making a direct comparison between apple and Nintendo is very difficult. The gaming industry usually doesn’t look at smart phone for gamming stats. However in the terms of revenue, smartphone games are still a fraction compared to other handheld devices like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP.
In the end, it may make more sense to look at the succes of iPod Touch games as the expansion of a new, distinct market, rather than encroachment into Nintendo’s (and Sony’s) existing market.
Smartphones have certainly done some harm to handheld sales growth, and it seems likely that some day they will pose a serious threat. But for now, the evidence suggests that the games available on these platforms simply aren’t good enough to stop many consumers from buying the DS.

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What is new in the world of apps? Apple reports that iphone and ipod touch users have downloaded over 3 billions apps since the app store launched 18 months ago. 3 billions is well over the bench mark apple CEO steve jobs ever imagined. Apple’s iPhone has more than 100,000 applications.

There are over two million developers using Adobe Flash, and soon they will be able to convert their applications into iPhone apps automatically. Adobe is adding “Packager for iPhone” to its Flash developer tools. Included in Flash Professional CS5 (Creative Suite 5), the software is currently in private beta testing. The iPhone does not support Flash; however ActionScript 3 projects will run as native iPhone apps after conversion. Several iPhone apps that have been developed using ActionScript 3 are currently available on the Apple App Store. New code can be written or existing web content can be repackaged as an iPhone app.

iWebTrack Holdings Inc., has recently launched a mobile web tracking application of their web analytics tool iWebTrack, www.iwebtrack.com, designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. iWebTrack customers can now get real-time statistics on the fly with the new iPhone mobile application. iWebTrack’s new mobile web tracking application allows customers to access crucial information including page views, unique visitors, hourly statistics, conversions, and much more directly from their iPhone. In addition to the iPhone mobile application, iWebTrack also offers mobile web tracking applications for Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices thus continuing to give competitors such as Indextools, Clicktracks, and WebTrends a run for their money.

The MobileMe Gallery app (iTunes link) lets users select an album with a tap and flick back and forth through photos, pinch to zoom, or rotate into landscape view. The software also automatically stores photos that have been viewed, so they can be accessed again even without a network connection. Friends’ publicly shared content can also be accessed by choosing their name from contacts or entering their MobileMe member name. It also includes a scrolling sampler at the top that gives users access to recent photos.

Security Cam, this is an iPhone app which had to wait for over a year to be approved and available in Appstore, the name is Security Cam, the approval delay is understandable since the idea of the app could be troubling to some people. With Security Cam, you can spy on people by taking their pictures without their notice, the app is for security purpose but at the same time can also raise privacy issue, and certainly not all people want to be monitored secretly while doing non-public activity.

Security Cam Applications gives two spying modes:

1. Frequency capture, with this mode you are able to set a specific frequency on how often you want the app takes a photo

2. Audio Trigger, this mode takes the photo when the audio level is reached – or pre-defined level of sound is detected

You are also able to select the two modes at the same time, taking the picture on a time interval and audio is detected, but of course that could effect to iPhone battery, therefore you can set iPhone to go into sleep mode until a specific time.

“Apple’s commanding lead in the mobile software space has led to a blistering pace of downloads from its App Store. Tuesday, Apple announced that its App Store downloads topped 3 billion. It was just 99 days before that when Apple announced the 2 billion threshold had been crossed. Over that span, applications were downloaded at a rate of more than 10.1 million per day”. (Apple insider)

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There is an enormous amount of hype about the Apple tablet / iTablet computer. We still have no confirmation if it even exists. However, At this point in the speculation with the numerous “leaked” specs and mock photos the questions is no longer whether the Tablet is real or fake, it’s a question of when.

How will people review this new device? I think it would be safe to say there will be a wide range reviews ranging from love it to hate it. Some will say the soon to be announced apple tablet could be the gadget that fills the void between too small smartphone and to large laptop. It could also be a turning point that makes a difference in how we live and work. Since computers have been around we have been trying to make them smaller, faster, lighter, and more useful to the consumer. We will always have the skeptics that may see no point in having such a device.

What type of features would the new apple tablet need to get good reviews and ratings among the consumers? If Apple does indeed release a tablet running iPhone 3.0 many would be highly disappointed. Most cannot fathom paying what will undoubtedly be a high price for a larger screen. Reports indicating that the upcoming tablet computer will come dressed in a polished aluminum casing, cementing its relationship to the Apple MacBook lineup.

What exactly is the new apple Tablet / iTablet?

rumors has the apple tablet pegged at having a 10 inch touch screen designed to bridge the gap between the iPhone/iPod and a MacBook. Apple normally has an eye for innovation and ground breaking technology. The idea of falling in line by simply producing an expensive “Apple exclusive netbook” may or may not have the same effect as the iPod and iPhone. Many Silicon Valley insiders view this as Apple trying to play catch up to the current market rather than attempting to create an entirely new product as they have done in the past.

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There is an enormous amount of hype about the Apple tablet computer. Is it possible the new apple tablet could change how we live and compute? Could there be more this tablet than hype and rumors? There is more to this new tablet than people think. Looking at the tablet with the perspective, the tablet could be the next step in the evolutionary chain of computing in our society. It could also be a turning point that makes a difference in how we live and work. Since computers have been around we have been trying to make them smaller, faster, lighter, and more useful to the consumer.

The technology industry hit high gear in the 70’s, when personal computers hit the desktops. Then another 20 years down the road when the laptop was introduced, making computers portable to the computing mix. Since the time of computers come around computers gone from the size of rooms to being able to fit inside of a brief case. Today most of us find it hard to get by without computers. They are in our everyday lives from designing websites to looking up direction to a new restaurant, and everything in between.

When smartphones hit the streets, suddenly we were carrying a real computer, able to run a wide range of applications (apps) and expanding different possibilities of communicating with a device not much lager than the average calculator. However the smartphones do have some drawbacks. The smartphone has a small touchscreen, and there isn’t much viewing area. Until we find better methods of typing and viewing characters we are going to have to use larger gadgets than the smartphone but smaller than the laptop.

The soon to be announced apple tablet could be the gadget that fills the void between to small smartphone and to large laptop. The larger size will allow apple to add more hardware which will allow better computing and give users more touchscreen on which to type and view. With these feature it is easy to see that this gadget is the middle of the road device that combines better portability than the laptop and better computing than the smartphones. As the methods of input and output become available and as miniaturization continues on its relentless path, we will see the increase in demand for a device similar in size to the iphone.

The apple tablet is just another step, to world were all our computing needs are on a portable device. Every aspect of our lives will be on some sort of mobile device, from grocery shopping to our business lives. The age of computing has change drastically. We have gone from computers the size of rooms to the size of calculators. Someday desktops and laptops will be a thing of the past. We will look back and think of a desktop as a dinosaur, Like DOS is to OS-X
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