FBR Capital analyst Craig Berger (Craig Berger) believes that Apple may just three months of sales iPad make it the best-selling e-book in history. He did not agree with those colleagues who speak of the possible production problems and shortages, due to which Apple will not be able to sell a large number of tablets. His forecast: 5 million sold iPad in the first half of 2010. Since the Kindle so far sold about 3 million, iPad automatically becomes the record holder.

This projection is remarkable in the first phase of its marginality. Other analysts, even optimistic about the prospects iPad, give a more modest forecasts. Apple has postponed the beginning of sales on April 3, while international sales and pushed to the far end of April because of lack of product inventories. Yet Berger believes that these considerations do not necessarily affect the final sales figures.

Via Electronista

Music Format LP, also known as Cocktail, Apple introduced with the filing of record companies, yet does not justify the hopes. GigaOM citing sources in the music industry said that after six months of sales records in this format never attracted the attention of the mass of the buyer.

Initially it was assumed that the new format encourages sales of entire albums. Music labels have long worried about the growing trend when users buy individual songs rather than whole albums. LP format provides a variety of additional content such as photos and video. It is believed that the way Apple made music label reciprocal concession after removal from the iTunes digital rights DRM in the past year.

Now in LP format is available for only 29 albums. One of the obstacles to its development, may be the price. One source of AppleInsider admitted that the cost of creating the album in this format can go up to $ 60 thousand, which is quite a lot. Recently, Apple released a toolkit for creating albums in the LP, that some cheaper and simplified the process, but reverse the situation so far failed.

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Apple announced the date of commencement of sales in the U.S. iPad – April 3, said agency Reuters. Later that same month, the launch of the product to market will be back in nine countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

With the release of Apple iPad have encountered some problems with suppliers that the product of such a level somewhat strange. According to the analyst for Cross Research, Apple will sell this year from 4 to 5 million units, which ultimately adds to the value of the company's stock is $ 1.

Meanwhile, research firm iSuppli estimated the cost of one "pill": $ 219.35 for parts + $ 10 for assembly.

By the way, at the ceremony of the Oscar was presented to the first commercials iPad. In fact, it only cuts from the fact that we have already seen.

Steve Ballmer at a recent speech at the University of Washington spoke positively about the iPhone store and App Store, saying that «Apple has done an excellent job, giving people the opportunity to monetize and commercialize their intellectual property."

Obviously, this is another step in Microsoft meeting to collaborate with longtime rival. The Internet goes a lot of rumors and speculation on how this cooperation can be, but most agree that Apple will make the credit default browser on the iPhone is the search engine from Microsoft – Bing.

Bing now has a good chance to rapidly gain popularity thanks to a deal Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as – if this happens – the army of owners iPhone. For Google, which has already greatly spoil the relationship with Apple because of its mobile platform Android, Association of giant from Redmond and Cupertino would certainly not very pleasant news.

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According to Electronista, the exhibition CeBIT Apple, Siemens and another company, Sisvel, was forced to close for violating patents exhibit booth one of the companies producing netbooks and electronic books. The name of this company is not disclosed, the contents of the alleged infringement of patents is also unknown.

On Thursday last week the lawyers of the three companies presented her a fine of 10 thousand euros, and the next day, exhibition, visited Germany and the police closed the company's stand.

A member of the Apple reported that it was not the only company to which Apple had a patent claim.

This incident is typical at CeBIT: many companies are placing it at the exhibition each other claim for patent infringement.

Via Electronista

Apple to cut the price several times the annual subscription for a package of development tools Mac Developer Program (MDC) and abolished the category of this subscription. Previously, the package price ranged from $ 499 to $ 3499 depending on the category, now operates a single price of $ 99. Thus, the MDC now applies the same pricing as on the iPhone Developer Program.

Subscribers receive the MDC itself Mac OS X and the pre-release versions of all its member programs, have access to the developer forum Apple, can communicate with specialists, to consult and report bugs.

Tools Xcode is still free, but it does not include technical support for Apple and pre-release versions software.

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Yesterday it became known that gaming service Steam can get a version for Mac. Official information on this subject yet, but Valve released a mysterious advertising images, clearly pointing in the direction Apple. One of them depicts the hero of Half-Life Gordon Freeman in the clothes in the colors of Mac, the second stylized as an old newspaper advertising Macintosh. These pictures were sent to different sites, one way or another connected with Apple, such as MacRumors. They were accompanied by the text: "In the run-up ads from Valve».

Apparently, Valve does not confuse that for the Mac no DirectX, and users of this platform is not the most avid gamers in the world. Experience of porting games from Valve available: TeamFortress 2, Half-Life and Portal already exist for consoles.

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Resource TechRadar post pictures of the prototype iPhone 4G in five colors as the iPod nano. Who is the author of Render, is not known, but assuming that Apple decides to implement this idea and finally paint the iPhone in different colors, it is certainly a positive impact on sales. At least now you can give girls a pink version, and the children – green.

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Investment analyst Charlie Wolf (Charlie Wolf) wrote to his clients that the suit Apple to HTC, which we wrote yesterday, the chances to win more from Apple. If the court confirms the correctness of Apple, a Taiwanese company will have to change the interface on their devices or stop their sale in the U.S. that will hit one of the main competitor Apple.

«Apple is very much invested in creating a unique, explosive smartphone, – says Wolfe. – From our point of view, this company has all the right to protect the unique features of the iPhone ".

On Tuesday, Apple HTC accused of violating 20 patents directly related to the iPhone, mainly in the area of its interface. As an example, cited several violations of Apple devices, including a number of smartphones running Android. Immediately after that, Google issued a statement with these words: "We did not figure in this process, but we protect our Android operating system and our partners that helped us in developing it."

According to Wolf, primarily Apple worries that Android is actively used Multisensory Technology ( "multitouch"). At the Nexus One, which HTC has released in conjunction with Google, the original of this functionality was not, but later it was in it later. You may also recall that a year ago HTC released the Android-smartphone with a virtual keyboard that is identical to that of the iPhone.

In the lawsuit Apple also mentions "software architecture, environment and implementation, including various aspects of the software involved in the functioning of operating systems." Apple Requests International Trade Commission to ban the sale of all HTC devices in the United States.

According to analysts, the action is just the beginning of "a long and bloody war» Apple with HTC. He assesses the chances of Apple's winning both the high and recommends buying shares of Apple.

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The site AppleInsider citing CNET wrote that Apple is in talks with movie studios to secure their agreement to create a cloud storage films, which can connect with any device, be it computer, iPhone or iPad. Recently, similar negotiations with Apple led record companies over the same storage for music content.

It is noteworthy here is that AppleInsider a year ago, wrote about the existence of a project called iTunes Replay, which allows to remotely store and view movies purchased from the iTunes Store. After that, nothing about it was known – until this day.

One of the main problems faced by buyers of digital movies and TV shows, is the complexity of their storage. Many iTunes customers complained that they have to either erase after viewing the films, or buy new hard drives or burn them to DVD. The Apple decided once and for all solve this problem, sparing users from having to download all files on your computer: they can be stored on the server and view streaming (with broadband connection).

The main difficulties in the projects of this type is not so much technical as legal. Not all studios are ready to enter into contracts with Apple on favorable terms.

Via AppleInsider