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The device has a 9.7 inch screen .- The cheaper model will cost 355 euros .- offers digital book download
First came the iPod, and with it changed the music industry, then came the iPhone, and with it the Internet and mobile telephony. Apple now intends to captivate the world again, this time with focus on the publishing world with its iPad. In a further demonstration of its strong man, Steve Jobs, the technology can be beautiful, easy and light, the iPad has been presented, amid a media frenzy, to revolutionize the publishing industry. This sector has suffered years of falling circulation by the effect of the Internet and looking for creative ways happy to consumers and industry.
“Halfway between the phone and the laptop,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs, iPad is an Internet browser, a media player for listening to music or watching videos, movies and television and a games console , shakes Amazon, an electronic book reader with color display. The eReader, which supports the EPUB open format, is associated with the new iBooks store that complements the content offered on the Web Apple A company that Jobs himself as “the largest company in the world of mobile devices. So far, Apple has the support of five of the big publishers like Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan and Hachette, which offers its content in iBooks.
The iPad is a multi-device, with 9.7 inch display, lightweight (680 grams), thin, very thin (12 mm thick). A device with most features that the iPod Touch, except that no camera has (but does offer a connection kit) and Webcam. Nor is it a phone, although some do carry a 3G data connection. iPad, according to Jobs, “enhances the viewing experience of their previous creations” with a battery that lasts up to 10 hours “to watch videos without stopping at a plane ride to Tokyo,” said the CEO.
It also includes some 12 new applications specific to the device, as Keynotes to create and deliver presentations with your fingers just as popular iPhone. In addition, the 140,000 available at the store also will run applications on device “without the need for developers to modify them. Giants of the game, as Electronic Arts and Gameloft and The New York Times, Steve Jobs’s favorite newspaper, yesterday came onstage to show the audience is iPad improvements for their respective sectors. Martin Nisenholtz, representing the newspaper, said that with this device “really enter into the next generation of digital journalism.”
The device will be available worldwide in two months in the version with Wi-Fi for $ 499 (16GB), $ 599 (32GB) and $ 699 (64GB). Versions with 3G will appear a month later to $ 629 (16GB), $ 729 (32GB) and $ 829 (64GB). So far, there is only agreement with AT & T operator, who no binding contract to provide mobile connectivity for U.S. $ 14.99 for downloads up to 250 MB per month or $ 29.99 for unlimited access. Jobs said it still “work to reach agreements with other operators in the world” and hoped not to lengthen beyond next July. In addition, those wishing may attach a physical keyboard to the appliance.
The iPod and the iPhone smartphone has meant a before and after in Apple’s history. If a computer company became a vendor selling turntables and then a phone.
And make for an elite to produce for the masses and, more miraculous still-without lowering prices. Apple is the envy of any entrepreneur, but not only for their products but by the profit you earn from each one it sells. With the profit margin and the brain of Steve Jobs believes that Apple is worth on the stock market ten years ago of $ 6,000 million and 50,000 million dollars today.
Success can not be understood without two online stores, iTunes (mainly for music and movies) and App Store, shop for telephone applications. First, Apple proved that the downloads songs over the Internet could give (and give) benefits, then that, beyond voice applications for smartphones (authentic touch screen computers with Wi-Fi, 3G connection Internet, music, video, and also serve to speak) are the future of mobile telephony. Last year this market has raised 4.200 million dollars worldwide.
140,000 available programs (from games like Tetris to office supplies or curiosities like playing the ocarina) and 3,000 million downloads (free and paid) since its launch in 2008, the store has revitalized applications, especially, sales iPhone (25 million last year and 47 since its launch in June 2007) and that income from these small purchases on a 70-30 split between the developer and the owner of the store.
Two days before the launch of the iPad, Apple reported that its earnings doubled in the last quarter of 2009 compared to year earlier, mainly thanks to the iPhone and Macintosh computers. The net profit was U.S. $ 3380 million (2,390 million).
Only time will tell whether, for the umpteenth time, the world must be discovered before the maker of Macs, the creator of the iPod, the creator of the iPhone, the creator of Pixar, Steve Jobs.