Hello all and welcome to another edition of Triple T. If you are wondering about a review on the iPad you can find that here. Here is what’s happening this week.
iPhone OS 4.0
Apple will be holding an event on Thursday to announce the release of iPhone OS 4.0. Among the rumored features is the ability for third party app multitasking. Cool, maybe this will mean I can run Pandora or Sirius/XM in the background like I can iTunes. As a reminder, the iPad runs the same OS.
iPad Initial Sales
Apple announced it sold 300,000 iPad units on Saturday. Given the base model goes for $499 that means Apple did $150 Million in sales on Saturday not including accessories for the iPad. That is one heck of a day! What recession? On top of that, users also downloaded 250,000 e-books. I think John C. Dvorak is going to owe Leo Laporte a nice bottle of wine soon.
Netflix for iPad
Also in iPad news, Netflix came out with an app to use on the iPad as well. You can browse the Netflix site and watch streaming content as well.
HP and Dell reduce investment in 10” netbooks
No doubt a response to slow growth and the introduction of the iPad. I recently checked out some netbooks just out of curiosity and to be honest I was not impressed with them. The screen seem so small that you could only run one thing at a time, might as well get an iPad if that is the case and I think a lot of other people thought the same.
MacBook series updates?
Apple Daily, a Taiwanese newspaper is speculating that Apple will release new updates to the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air product line this month. This makes a lot of sense as Apple is due for a refresh on the laptop line and it is now between the iPad release and the no doubt new iPhone release in June or July.
Well that is going to do it for this weeks Triple T., apologies for the heavy iPad news but next week should bring more of a regular format of tech news. See you next week!
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