David Hockney "Van Gogh would have loved it"
The iPad gets praise from artist and royal academician David Hockney. Here´s another article from Bloomberg dated April, 25th.
Hockney has been drawing on his iPhone for some time using the brushes app and and has now moved to the iPad’s bigger screen.
The quote sticking out most reads: “It can be anything you want it to be. This is the nearest we have got to seeing what I would call a universal machine.”
WePad is now WeTab
Steve Jobs has allready argued before that all our pads are belong to him. WePad it seems is affected by this rule.
The linked article at Techcrunch also contains a fans suggestion for a future renaming of the german Antwort to the tablet from Cupertino.
iPad will arrive in 9 countries on May 28th
Apple anounced shipping dates for the iPad in a press release today. The tablet will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Both the WiFi-only and the WiFi+3G models will be on sale the same day. Preorders start monday May, 10th.
According to the spanish outlet of techblog Engadget the pricing in Spain will start at 479 € for the 16GB WiFi model and will add 100 € for each increment of memory and an aditional 100€ premium for 3G, thus pricing the 64GB WiFi+3G top model at 779€. Italian prices will start at 499 € with the same 100€ increments iLounge reports.
The Engdget article also reveals UK pricing at £429, £499 and £599 for the WiFi-only models and £529, £599 and £699 for the 3G enabled devices.
An additional nine countries will get the iPad in the July timeframe, including Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore.
Daring Fireball Hey Bill Gates, 1999 Called and They Want Their Stylus Back
John Gruber links to an article at cult of mac in his very own style.
AppleInsider | Apple announces iPad sales top 1 million in less than a month
1 million in 28 days equals about 35700 units per day.The 3G Version was only just released on friday. Taking into account that Apple is only serving the US market at the time that´s quite a lot.
I´m curious about the figures when the iPad goes on sale in most of europe later this month.
IEBlog "IE9 will support only h.264 HTML5 Video"
Internet Explorer 9 will support only h.264 for HTML5 video playback. One excerpt from todays blogpost reads as follows “Flash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security, and performance.”
Bad Times for Adobe’s Flash
Fake Steve "We are removing Flash support from OS X"
Fake Steve anounces the end of flash support in Apple’s Desktop Operating System.
I´m afraid it will end up the other way around: Adobe discontinuing flash support for OS X.
Microsoft cancels the Courier, the Internet sheds a tear
Acording to Gizmodo Microsoft has killed the Courier project. It´s a pitty cause the Courier looked very interesting. If you havn´t heard of the Courier take a look at it on YouTube
Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31, iTunes.com Launch Impending?
Lala the online music service which was aquired by Apple in late 2009 will shut down on May 31st. Read more over on techcrunch.
Tpuths headline on April 29th, 2010 links to Steve Job´s letter at Apple.com Tputh.com is a gem designwise.
