April 2012
16 posts
What Apple’s Ebook Fiasco Means for Amazon and the Book Business →
mashable.com
“Of course, that leads one of the main losers here: Publishers. Amazon is now free to pursue its strategy of selling cheap ereaders and cheap ebooks — both of which the company is widely thought to be losing money on — in order to cement a dominant position in the ebook marketplace. Since Amazon makes money in other ways (and is profitable), it can do this more or less indefinitely.”
#Apple wants to make it easy for non-programmers to build iOS apps →
nicolasvoisin.tumblr.com
A new digital content authoring tool from Apple could make it simple for people without a background in programming to build their own iOS applications for the iPhone and iPad.
Apple’s interest in making iOS development simpler than ever was revealed in a new patent application published this…
Gartner Predicts 665 Million Tablets In Use By 2016, Over 45% Of Them iPad Devices →
techcrunch.com
“The age of the tablet is definitely upon us: figures out today from Gartner forecast that by the end of 2016 there will 665 million media tablets in use worldwide — a counterpoint to the sluggish sales we have seen in PCs in the last couple of years. This year, Gartner says there will be sales of 118.9 million tablets, growth of nearly 100 percent on a year ago.”
