According to Net Application’s May 1 report, the five U.S. market areas with the largest concentration of iPads — measured by its clients’ browser data — are: San Francisco, California (0.25% Internet share); Grand Junction, Colorado (0.23%); Santa Barbara, California (0.19%);
Honolulu, Hawaii (0.19%); and Bend, Oregon (0.19%).
“iFixIt” has offered a teardown (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3G-Teardown/2374/1) of the 3G iPad and says it shows some interesting differences when compared to its Wi-Fi-only sibling, mostly due to its additional 3G / GPS functionality. Check out the highlights below. Here are some of the highlights of the teardown:
° The immediate visible difference is the inclusion of a black plastic RF window on top of the iPad for better antenna reception.
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Mac OS X, Safari and iPhone market share for Internet usage rose from March to April, according to the latest market share survey from NetMarketShare (http://www.netmarketshare.com).
According to the report, among operating systems, Mac OS X had 5.32% of the global market share in April, compared to 5.33% in March (that’s global market share; in the US it’s almost 10 %). Windows remains dominant with 91.46% as of April. That’s down from 91.58% in March. Apple’s highest percentage previously was 5.27% in October 2009, so March’s number is an all-time high.
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WFXL-TV in Albany, Georgia, has switched to iPads from paper scripts that anchors read on set, reports “Poynter Online” (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=182192). To change pages, anchors just swipe their fingers across the screen.
To add scripts, producers print them to a PDF and send the PDF to an iPad e-mail account. Terry Graham, news director/anchor at WFXL, told “Poynter Online” that the station bought the iPads because it expects to save thousands in paper expenses. The move, he said, is not part of a promotion or partnership with Apple.
Read MoreHere are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Game studio BeiZ has announced Mandy and Andy – The Seasons 1.0, their new, US$0.99 children’s iPhone-book. It continues the interactive Mandy and Andy book series. In this book cuddly Mandy and Andy cats present the seasons of Northern Hemisphere together with their friends.
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