Posts tagged Apple

Technology Exact Production Costs?

1 year ago

by Antonio Ramirez in On The Web

Over the past months we have heard right and left about the new comer and so called great tool ‘iPad’. Now, it is the best tool to interact with Internet, to view-share your photos, to blah, blah, blah… Again, the same story. So, marketing wise, Apple is unreal, their designs, their messages, their ‘hey people wait that is something even greater to come’ is remarkable but let me ask you guys, what is the exact point of so much technology nowadays if most of us, mere mortals, dont have a freaking clue on how the hell all those house-work-devices really work? I bet that 90%, if not 100% of us, don’t use all what a machine-device is capable of. I am a programmer and I don’t even use the full potential of my Blackberry, are you doing something I don’t? I guess not.

For me, and this is a humble opinion, so much technology is crap. Filing the gap between phones and/or netbooks and computers? What a great marketing concept but what a waste of time.

Also, let me share with you something I read on the http://www.independent.co.uk/:

The Foxconn factory in the southern Chinese boom town of Shenzhen is so vast that walking around its outer perimeter takes two hours. Its workers turn out components that are supplied to big Western electronics brands including Nokia, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. And it is here that most of the parts for Apple’s iPhone, and the much-awaited iPad, which goes on sale in the UK this week, are manufactured.

Yesterday, Li Hai, a 19-year-old employee of the firm, jumped from the top of the building in Shenzhen to his death. It brought the number of suspected suicides at the factory this year to 10. There have been another two attempted suicides.

All of the deaths have been of youngsters between 18 and 25 years old. Li Hai had only been working at the plant for 42 days. The incidents have prompted intense soul-searching in China, about conditions in its factories and the social cost of breakneck economic development.

Here you go and yes, we can all excuse our selves saying that, they have chosen the job, they decided to finish their lifes… whatever. The truth is that we don’t really know what happened to the minds of those youngsters and in which circumstances they had to work… Maybe they were forced to work for their families survival, we don’t know. The only thing that matters is that we had iPad right in time, isn’t that true mr Steve Jobs?

In 1984, Apple next launched the Macintosh. Its debut was announced by the now famous $1.5 million television commercial “1984″. It was directed by Ridley Scott, aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984 and is now considered a watershed event for Apple’s success and a “masterpiece”.

Mr Steve Jobs, you are not different from IBM.

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Apple Reveal iPad

1 year ago

by Antonio Ramirez in On The Web

After so much expectation, a new family member of Apple named iPad, has seen the light. Steve Jobs introduced it in his annual San Francisco event and has already produced long queues to book on major stores.

IPad is called, weighs just 680 grams, and is thin, only 13,4 mm. This is the newest member of the Apple that was released yesterday. Steve Jobs, CEO of the firm, on its annual event in San Francisco released its new device to thousands of expectant people. And that, along with the iPhone, which was introduced three years ago, has become one of the biggest releases of the company, preceded as usual by numerous rumors that echoed on the Internet.

The new device has been born to close the ‘gap’ between smartphones and netbooks. Can navigate the web, send emails, view photos and videos, listen to music and reading e-books (the firm opened a store of electronic books, iBookstore, coinciding with the availability date of the iPad in March). But in addition, Apple has designed a new version of iWork, productivity suite of applications for desktop computers own specifically designed for multi-touch for the new iPad. With Pages, Keynote and Numbers The user can create formatted documents, presentations with animations and transitions, and spreadsheets with statistical graphs, functions and formulas.

In general, includes 12 new applications developed especially for the iPad and, according to Apple, it works with virtually all of the more than 140,000 applications available on the App Store, including those already purchased by the user for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

The user will see all these applications on a 9.7 inch screen and LED backlight, which includes winning IPS technology for crisp and clear, with a viewing angle of 178 degrees. All applications will work in both portrait or landscape, changing automatically and dynamically between views when the user rotates the iPad in any direction. In addition, applications will run on the chip itself A4 Apple.

For connectivity, the new device will offer two versions: one with comnicación Wi-Fi 802.11n, and the other with Wi-Fi and 3G, which supports speeds up to 7.2 Mbps on HSDPA networks.

Finally, adding that the company has launched a new software development kit (Software Development Kit or SDK) for developers to create applications designed to take advantage of the capabilities of the iPad.

Prices

Although the iPad will be available worldwide beginning in March, only been realized prices for the U.S., which depend on the storage device and wireless connection type you wish:

- The U.S. MSRP is $ 499 for the 16GB model,
- Cost $ 599 for 32 GB model,
- And $ 699 the 64 GB model

IPad models with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available in April in the U.S. and certain countries. U.S. Retail pricing be:
- $ 629 for 16 GB model,
- $ 729 for 32 GB model,
- And $ 829 the 64 GB model