A few weeks after a questionable survey indicated that public interest in Apple`s upcoming iPad was dwindling; a new study shows that the demand surrounding the tablet device is higher than it was for the iPhone in 2007.
Well you can throw free streaming content from Hulu on Apple`s iPad out the window because it looks like that is definitely not going to be happening. Those of you here in San Francisco planning to buy one of these next month can go ahead and cry now.
Safari still remains buried deep down in the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK but that didn`t stop Apple Insider from getting an inside look at the browser that will be showing up next month on the iPad. They have used the Apple SDK iPad simulator to bring Safari up from the OS 3.2 depths for a closer look.
Well, another patent filed by Apple has come to the surface today and it`s a big one. Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen, Patently Apple has uncovered evidence that Apple was granted a patent for a capacitive multitouch display, in other words, a multipoint screen. Ok, ok, the ability to do multiple touches on the screen at the same time.
Microsoft apparently has an interest in bringing Office to the iPad at some point in the future. You can bet that they are waiting to see whether the product is a success before committing to anything at all, so assuming anything other than their obvious interest is a little premature.
Coming on the heels of a report that consumers have become less than enthusiastic about the iPad, including plenty of people here in Apple-centric San Francisco, the Wall Street Journal has revealed that Apple might be willing to make some concessions as far as iPad pricing goes.
Face it, the debut of the iPad was watched by millions and within those millions, plenty of people groaned when Steve Jobs unveiled a device that appeared like nothing more than a big iPhone. That was just the beginning of people`s apparent decline in love for the iPad.
Sony`s CFO, Nobuyuki Oneda, hinted today that the company has interest in the tablet market and that they too will be able to construct a great tablet device. Oneda did make one admission that Nintendo, Nokia and Microsoft, Microsoft especially, wouldn`t admit.
There had been rumors up until the actual debut of Apple`s new tablet, the iPad, that it may have been headed to Verizon instead of AT&T. Well, as you probably know, those rumors were fruitless and Apple decided to move forward with AT&T despite the low consumer rating and complaints about the service in metropolitan areas such as San Francisco.
Not surprisingly, some of the Apple`s biggest competitors chimed in with their thoughts about the debut of the iPad.