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Apple may have helped delay BlackBerry PlayBook by a month
Apr 7th
Apple may have inadvertently contributed to a month-long delay for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Touchscreen panel builders said late Wednesday that Apple had booked so much touchscreen production for devices like the iPad that it had triggered a shortage and made it hard for RIM to get supplies. Last-minute software testing was the only other factor mentioned by Digitimes‘ sources on the subject.
The claim hasn’t been confirmed but has been corroborated by earlier reports. Apple has been said for months to be making most of the touchscreen orders in Taiwan. RIM had also said in one fiscal results call that More >
Nintendo rules out getting into phones to chase Apple, Sony
Apr 4th
Nintendo’s US president Reggie Fils-Aime in an interview on Friday ruled out the prospect of a phone. The console maker had “no desire” to get into the business and expected it could compete with Apple, Microsoft, and Sony through a dedicated gaming device. He didn’t see Nintendo as having expertise it could bring to bear in the area and told CNN that phones were almost antithetical to a game system like the 3DS.
“Phones are utilities,” he explained. “Phones are not by definition entertainment devices.”
A Japanese producer for the firm, Hideki Konno, added that there were “so many additional costs” to More >
Apple patent hints iWeb may come to iPad
Apr 3rd
It may have been some time since iWeb, Apples simple WYSIWYG web page design tool, has received new features. However, it appears that Apple has at the very least considered bringing it across to the iPad. A new patent application has emerged that shows a version of iWeb for the iPad. It would join GarageBand, Keynote, Numbers, Pages and iMovie as productivity and creativity apps ported from its Mac OS X platform over to its burgeoning iOS platform.
Apples iWeb for Mac OS X, ships as part of its iLife suite of applications that comes bundled with the Mac OS More >
Apple posts first iPad 2 TV ad: ‘We Believe’
Apr 3rd
Apple on Saturday night posted the first-ever TV ad for the iPad 2 (below). The 30-second spot deliberately avoids the push on specs by its rivals and argues that “technology is not enough.” It’s through the natural interfaces of iBooks, GarageBand, and photos that technology “gets out of the way” and creates something special, Apple said.
It recalls a common theme Apple has used at the end of its keynotes. CEO Steve Jobs has usually cast the company as an “intersection of liberal arts and technology,” where creatives and those not locked into the engineer method can make good technology More >