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Apple’s online store in China a success!
Within 24 hours since the launch of the online Apple Store, the Apple Store sold out its entire stock of iPhone 4s. The new online Apple Store was a huge success in China. Apple wants to access China’s growing economy and online shopping market by selling Apple products through the new online Apple Store. With access to China’s growing market, Apple will be able to make about US $ 17.91 billion worth of transactions in the third quarter of 2010. The online Apple Store will be a more convenient way for China’s consumers to purchase Apple products. Unauthorized resellers are a big problem in China and are cause for concern. Apple hopes that the online store will prevent the selling of Apple products from unauthorized resellers because more people will more likely buy it directly from the new online Apple Store.
Apple’s success in China was inevitable. Apple is so popular in the United States, so why wouldn’t it be in China? iPhone 4s sold out within 24 hours. I am pretty sure that is a good sign. The online Apple Store will have to restock though and I would recommend that you check back often. Let me know if you have any thoughts on this topic.
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New iPad comes with a camera
The iPad is a technological advancement in Apple’s product line. Many people say that it is just a big iTouch, but it is more then just that. The iPad is a do it all, large screen, awesome device, and it just got better. According to blogs.barrons.com, OmniVision will supply CMOS image sensors for a second generation Apple iPad. The second generation iPad is said to release in the first quarter of 2011. According the Detweiler Fenton, an investment firm, has said that the iPad will come with two cameras. The iPad contains a 5 megapixel camera and a VGA camera and most likely will support Apple’s facetime video chat software. Apple has been the top of this certain industry because of their innovative designs and their willingness to change their products. The new iPad will a good change because many consumers like Facetime and having the ability to take pictures.
I think this is a great move to have cameras on the iPad. Many consumers like cameras because they get to capture memories and cameras are very useful in many situations. The iPad now has an advantage over many eBook readers because the iPad can do many more things then just read a book. You can go on the internet, play games, watch movies and listen to music. With the addition of a camera, Apple has leaped over the competition and in my opnion, taken the top spot in ereaders.
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Apple iPhone – Carriers = Good Idea?
Will the Apple iPhone have its own SIM card? In Europe, sources say have reported that Apple and Gemalto have been working closely together to develop a special SIM card for the Apple iPhone to be used in Europe. The SIM card would allow users to purchase the Apple iPhone directly from Apple’s online store or an Apple Retail Store. After purchasing the Apple iPhone, you can get the phone to work by using the App Store.
The SIM card, which is usually used to carry identification information about the subscriber for the carrier, will be integrated into the iPhone. The SIM card will allow people to buy the phone through Apple’s online store or at an Apple Retail Store and choose their carrier at the time of purchase. An application that is available from the App Store also allows customers the ability to purchase the phone and choose their phone carrier through that application. Both reduce the need for visiting or calling a cell phone carrier.
If Apple does use this new SIM card, it would cut out cell phone carriers out of the device retail game, even though the phone will still be allowed to operate on cell phone carriers. The Gemalto SIM card is embedded in a chip that has a flash component that can be modified and a ROM area. The ROM area alone contains the data related to IT and network security. The flash component would receive the carrier information and data.
This new idea would be very ideal for Europe because of the many carriers. It would also be an advantage for people who travel and want to swap carriers depending on where they are, such as other countries. This is very convenient for consumers and would be a great advantage for the Apple iPhone. Let us know what you think.
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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac
The entire suite gets a visual refresh with the new Ribbon interface and template gallery. All the apps in the package also gain new photo editing/retouching capabilities to speed up image work in your documents.After the launch of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, it’s time to announce the latest edition, Microsoft Office 2011. Enterprise and education customers were lucky enough to be using Office 2011 a few weeks early, but now Office 2011 is released to the general public. However, you will need at least Leopard 10.5.8 or above to run Office 2011.
You can purchase Microsoft Office 2011 now. One of the latest and greatest editions to the suite is the removal of Entourage and addition of Outlook. Outlook 2011 matches the Office 2010 Windows Edition. With Outlook 2011, more and more enterprise customers will be looking to use Macs in their environment instead of having to use the poorly coded Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage.
Below are some of the latest improvements and additions:
- The entire suite gets a visual refresh with the new Ribbon interface and template gallery. All the apps in the package also gain new photo editing/retouching capabilities to speed up image work in your documents.
- On the cloud front, the Office 2011 license includes 25 GB of storage on Microsoft’s SkyDrive service, with the option to save your documents directly to SkyDrive or to corporate SharePoint installations for immediate shareability. Along with the online storage, the company has implemented lean versions of the entire suite as web apps — meaning you or your collaborators can make quick edits and changes on remote machines without even having Office installed. In Word or the other apps, you can leverage the sharing space to actually co-author a document; you and your collaborators can all edit inside the same file simultaneously, with section indicators showing where the other folk are hard at work. This was demoed at Microsoft’s launch event in NYC last night, and it’s going to be a great selling point for the suite; it’s also compatible with Office 2010 on Windows.
- For macro-loving spreadsheet users, Excel (and the rest of the suite) are once again sporting full cross-platform support for Visual Basic scripting, allowing custom solutions built in VB to work once again. VB support was dropped in Office 2008 as the suite went Intel-native. Excel also improves performance on large datasets and adds Sparklines as a display format for quick visibility of data. According to members of the Office product team I spoke to last night, the Excel team worked hard to ensure cross-platform compatibility with Excel 2010 on the Windows side — going so far as to print copies of a screenshot of compatibility errors from Excel 2008 with a big ‘no’ symbol over it and put them up on office doors and cubicle walls as a reminder of the team’s goal.
- Of course, Office 2010 says goodbye to Entourage and returns Outlook to the Mac, albeit with some strong Entourage-y streaks in its makeup. Outlook supports POP and IMAP accounts along with Exchange 2007 and higher; it includes a new unified inbox, new calendar viewing, coversation threading, .PST file import, a revamped and much more robust database structure (Time Machine-friendly for backups) and better performance than its purple predecessor. The new mail and PIM app is still working through some rough edges, although all the issues I mentioned to program manager Andy Ruff were already on his list to be fixed in the next update. Calendar sync to Sync Services isn’t included in this build; the development team wasn’t satisfied with how it worked in the code that was ported forward from Entourage, so they decided to rebuild it from the ground up, and it just wasn’t ready to roll when the current version was frozen. It’s expected to be available in an update soon.
What do you think of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac?