iPhone 4 prices from around the world: “Now that the iPhone 4 is available around most of the world, iFun designed this interesting little infographic that compares the various prices of the handset around the globe. Note that all of these prices are in Euros, and that they all reflect the out-of-contract price — because the US iPhones are locked to the AT&T network currently, our country doesn’t appear on this list.
But if you want to buy an unlocked iPhone elsewhere in the world, you should probably go with Hong Kong, where an unlocked 16gb phone will set you back US $653. Italy sells the costliest iPhones, with the price reaching up over US$1000 there for an unlocked phone.
This whole thing is really just more of a fun comparison rather than a really solid analysis — most people who want an iPhone will probably buy it in the country where they live, especially if they need a certain contract. But it is interesting to see just where Apple has determined it can go higher on the price, either because of certain tariffs or shipping that must be paid, or just because the demographic calls for it.”
Oggi ripensavo alle mie esperienze con l’iPad. Spesso in questi giorni si discute di quale sia la funzione dell’iPad, a che serve. Taluni dicono che non è abbastanza potente per essere un netbook ed è troppo grosso per essere un dispositivo tascabile. Altri dicono che è molto potente e si possono fare molte più cose di quanto si immagini.
Secondo me, bisogna adottare un punto di vista diverso. Non è tanto rilevante quanto sia potente l’IPad rispetto ad un netbook o notebook. Nella mia esperienza ciò che contraddistingue l’utilizzo dell’iPad è la variabile spazio/luogo. Provo a spiegarmi.
Se sono per strada e sto camminando, qualunque cosa debba fare, utilizzo l’iPhone. Non avrei altro modo. Ma se sono in una sala riunioni in ufficio o al poli, non mi porto il MacBook e non uso più l’iPhone (che è troppo piccolo per esempio per prendere note): uso l’iPad. Se sono seduto sul divano o sto facendo un viaggio un po’ lungo in autobus o metro, non uso il MacBook e neppure l’iPhone: uso l’iPad. In poche parole, ogni qual volta non sono in movimento, ma non sono in ufficio e/o non sto facendo cose complesse, uso l’iPad. Se sono in magazzino e sto guardando i dati sulle scorte, non mi porto dietro un notebook e un iPhone è piccolo. E così via …
Questo mi pare confermi l’intuizione di Jobs: non è un device che “sostituisce” gli altri o che offre funzioni diverse. È un oggetto che va a coprire un bisogno e una modalità di interazione nuova, che riempie spazi diversi di utilizzo.
È interessante leggere di questi retroscena. C’è da riflettere su come si sviluppi l’innovazione e come questa “atterri” sul mercato.
Jobs: the iPad begat the iPhone, not the other way around: “One of the most interesting tidbits from the talk was Jobs’ acknowledgment that the idea for the iPad came before the iPhone, even though it was the phone that managed to make it to market first. ‘I’ll tell you a secret. It actually started with the tablet first,’ Jobs said. ‘I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on with your fingers. I asked our folks: could we come up with a multitouch display that we could type on? And six months later, they came back with this prototype display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys and he called me back a few weeks later and had intertial scrolling working and I thought, ‘my God, we can build a phone with this!’ So we put the tablet on the shelf… and we went to work on the iPhone.’”
AdMob: Android Passes iPhone Web Traffic In U.S.: “As we noted earlier, mobile ad network AdMob has released its monthly mobile metrics report for March, which takes a close look at Android OS traffic. One interesting stat that was hidden in the report was that Android ad traffic overtook iPhone traffic in the U.S. for the month of March.
According to the report, Android traffic in the U.S. increased to 46 percent of operating system share compared to 39 percent for the iPhone operating system. Worldwide, the iPhone OS still took the top spot, taking 46 percent of the OS share, with Android phones seeing 25 percent of impressions. AdMob measures mobile ad impressions, which is a proxy for overall traffic.
The Android ecosystem is steadily growing, with the App market counting 38,000 plus apps as of a few weeks ago, up 8000 apps from a month ago. This still pales in comparison to Apple’s booming App Store, but it seems pretty significant that one of the most popular mobile ad networks is reporting that Android ad traffic has surpassed that of the iPhone. Of course, Admob is still waiting for regulatory approval of its $750 million deal to be acquired by Google, so maybe it doesn’t want to call too much attention to how well Android is doing.”
Sto usando da più di una settimana l’iPad e mi sto accorgendo che effettivamente cambia il mio modo di lavorare e accedere alla rete.
Sto usando molto meno l’iPhone. Come scriveva anche Zamperini, molte applicazioni/servizi ora li uso sull’iPad. L’iPhone lo uso solo quando sono veramente in movimento.
A casa, uso quasi solo l’iPad, sia per leggere o per controllare la posta o per scrivere cose veloci e semplici (come questo post).
In ufficio, lavoro sul macbook ma ho l’iPad aperto sul quale controllo agenda, IM e anche qualche mail veloce. È poi l’oggetto che mi porto dietro in riunioni o fuori ufficio.
Il Mac lo uso per scrivere documenti, fare presentazioni o fare lavori più complessi.
Quindi l’iPad ha rubato più spazio all’iPhone, meno al Mac.
Questo lungo post è veramente interessante. Analizza il keynote di Steve Jobs e la presentazione di iPhone 4.0 nell’ottica del duello che si è aperto con Google. Ci sono diverse osservazioni interessanti. Da leggere.
Reading Between the iPhone OS 4.0 Lines: "So the anti-Google message with iAds was two-fold: first, search isn’t good for mobile ads; and second, Google — logical, engineering-driven Google — will never provide an ad platform for emotional advertising like design-driven Apple can. Jobs’s iAds pitch was not directed to consumers. It was directed to creatives in the ad industry — and creative developers who want something better than text ads inside their apps."
Apps turn your iPhone into an iPad camera add-on | Tablets | iPhone Central | Macworld: “The iPad’s lack of a built-in camera is not stopping a number of enterprising developers from coming up with ingenious solutions that allow users to share their iPhone cameras instead.
These systems usually come in the form of a pair of apps: you install one on the iPhone to capture images from the camera, and the other on the iPad to view and manipulate the images.
The Camera-A and Camera-B apps, written by indie developer Yusuke Sekikawa, make up one such combo. Camera-A is installed on the iPad and connects to Camera-B, which runs on the iPhone, either via Wi-Fi or using iPhone OS’s peer-to-peer Bluetooth connectivity. The set up process is easy and intuitive (essentially, all you need to do is make sure that both apps are running) and the video feed, while at times grainy and less than fluid, is perfectly serviceable. Camera-A/B’s major shortcoming is the interface, which is somewhat spartan—all it allows you to do is take snapshot of the video feed, and it’s pretty unintuitive.”
