When it comes to the MUG Event Calendar, the iPad will be on everyone’s agenda this week, whether it’s an officially listed meeting topic or not. Even so, there are plenty of other topics and presenters on the schedule.
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Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster estimated that by midnight Sunday, Apple will have sold 600,000 to 700,000 iPads, including pre-orders — more than double his relatively conservative pre-launch estimate of 200,000 to 300,000, reports “Fortune” (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/04/new-ipad-launch-day-estimate-600000-700000-sold/?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29).
Read MoreThe iPad could offer “significant” cannibalization of Apple’s laptop sales, according to “Seeking Alpha” (http://seekingalpha.com/article/196954-mac-notebook-cannibalization-from-the-ipad-could-be-significant?source=yahoo).
“Seeking Alpha” estimates that there could be $15 (6%) downside to Apple’s stock if iPad sales were to eventually cannibalize about half of Mac notebook sales. Such a scenario could materialize if the majority of prospective Mac notebook buyers are primarily content consumers rather than content creators, the financial site says. )
Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (hxttp://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
To accompany the long-awaited iPad launch, Zondervan is one of the first publishers to release titles in the iBookstore beginning Saturday, April 3, 2010. More than 1,000 titles will be available for download from all product groups. Zondervan plans to release all its future ebooks in an iPad version and is working to release more than 150 additional books in the next three months.
Read MoremacProVideo.com has released a tutorial-video about Native Instruments Kontakt sampler plug-in, called”Native Instruments 105: Exploring Kontakt” (ttp://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/nativeinstruments105).
In this tutorial, composer and sound designer Scott Freiman shows you how to use Native Instruments’ Kontakt 4 sampler. Tips and tricks are scattered among this courses interactive tutorial-videos.
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