What Did People Think About The First iPhone?

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What Did People Think About The First iPhone?

Dan Fallon

Sep 22 2015, 3:21 AM

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Welcome to Browser History, where we dig deep into the (relatively recent) past to see what people initially thought about the gadgets and services that rule our lives now. While the success of these products now seems inevitable, the past is littered with failures and near-misses — here's what people were saying early on about the ones that hit the big.

Apple announced its first iPhone ten years ago, on January 9, 2007. En route to world domination, the iPhone has undergone several upgrades — the latest edition, the 6S, was released a couple weeks ago — but we're curious about what people had to say about the OG device, the one that started it all. 

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"We empower people and businesses to realize their potential"

Craig Bailey
20 de febrero de 2013

    "We empower people and businesses to realize their potential"
    The most interesting part of this interview with Steve Ballmer is his answers to the following two questions from Jason Pontin:
    “ I understand Google’s vision for the future of computing....

"We empower people and businesses to realize their potential"

The most interesting part of this interview with Steve Ballmer is his answers to the following two questions from Jason Pontin:

    I understand Google’s vision for the future of computing. I know what Apple stands for. I used to understand what Microsoft stood for. I no longer know. What’s your vision for the company?

    This question quintessentially is a question of altitude. So, in this context tell me what Google and Apple stand for, and I’ll give you the equivalent.

    Google stands for indexing the world’s information in a useful fashion. That’s their claim to planetary utility. Steve Jobs said Apple made insanely great devices for consumers. That altitude.

    At that level of altitude, I’ll give you the slogan, and then I’ll sort of put just a little meat on it. We empower people and businesses to realize their potential. And to expand, I would simply say we’re about defining the future of productivity, entertainment, and communication. In the new world, software is going to have to come in kind of an integrated form—or at least a well-designed form that includes cloud services and devices.

Ballmer says “we’re about defining the future of productivity, entertainment, and communication”. I think that’s a good goal, but I don’t think Microsoft are really understanding the needs of the user. Windows 8 for example, has been a productivity killer for me and many others. 

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iPad mini with Retina Display vs. iPad mini

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October 24, 2013

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Gizmag compares the features and specs of the new iPad mini with Retina Display (left) and the original (non-Retina) iPad mini
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If you already own an iPad mini, is it worth upgrading to the new model with Retina Display? Or maybe you're considering buying your first iPad mini, and are wondering if it's worth saving a few bucks on last year's model? Let Gizmag help, as we plop the first two generations of the iPad mini into our magical comparison machine, and see what happens.

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Release date

The Retina Display iPad mini launches sometime in November. The original model hit stores last November, and is sticking around for another year.

Size

Nothing shocking here. Though it is worth noting that the Retina iPad mini is a little thicker. That's the same thing that happened to the full-sized iPad when it got a Retina Display.

Weight

Not a great start for the Retina model, as it's also a bit heavier compared to the original iPad mini. Seven percent heavier, to be exact.

Build

Same aluminum build in both models.

Colors

The Retina iPad mini gets the same Space Gray color from the iPhone 5s, and Apple updated the original model with the new hue as well. If you bought a first-generation iPad mini before the new models were announced, then you might have the "black & slate" color instead.

Display

Same 7.9-inch display size for the new model, but the big news is its shift to a Retina Display. It has four times the pixels of the original model, making for a much denser screen. Expect razor-sharp text and crisp, clear images.

Processor

Performance should be another huge upgrade in the Retina iPad mini. Its 64-bit A7 chip is two generations ahead of the old A5 (originally found in 2011's iPad 2) in the non-Retina iPad mini.

RAM

We don't yet know how much RAM the Retina iPad mini has, but we'd bet on 1 GB. The mere 512 MB found in the 1st-gen version just barely cuts it. Backgrounded apps and browser tabs will need to refresh more often than they do on devices with more RAM.

Storage

The first mini was originally available in 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB models, but now that it's sticking around for a second year, it's only sold in a 16 GB flavor.

Cameras

Same resolution in the cameras this time around, but Apple did boast of some upgraded sensors in the new batch of iPads.

Battery

Above are the watt hours for the batteries. If you're more concerned with uptimes, then Apple is estimating that the Retina version will last the same ten hours (while surfing the web on Wi-Fi).

Wireless

Both models are sold in both Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi with LTE versions. The cellular models cost an extra US$130 over their Wi-Fi only counterparts with the same amount of storage.

Software

Both iPad minis run the new iOS 7, with the App Store's stacked selection of tablet apps.

Starting prices

Apple actually jacked the Retina model's price up by $70, hitting the $400 price point for 16 GB Wi-Fi only. It then shoots all the way up to $830 for a 128 GB cellular model.
On announcing the new iPad mini, Apple also dropped the first-generation model's price down to $300.

Wrap-up

If the Retina iPad mini had stayed at $330, this would have been a no-brainer. Not only does it have a much sharper screen, but its performance will be head and shoulders above last year's model.
But at $400, the Retina mini is now inching closer to Apple's new full-sized iPad, the iPad Air. With that added to the non-Retina model's price drop, we can see some customers preferring to save a few bucks and live with the lower-resolution screen.
On the flip side, the new iPad mini's specs are pretty much toe-to-toe with the iPad Air, so you're getting a much more powerful tablet than you did last year. It even has a sharper display than the iPad Air, owing to the same amount of pixels scrunched onto the smaller screen.
For more on the new iPads, you can see how the Retina iPad mini compares to the iPad Air, and you can also check out the iPad Air vs. the older 9.7-inch iPads.

COMO INSTALAR MAC OS X LEOPARD EN UN PC Y NO MORIR EN EL INTENTO (hackintosh).

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Domingo, 12 de junio de 2011

COMO INSTALAR MAC OS X LEOPARD EN UN PC Y NO MORIR EN EL INTENTO (hackintosh)

Hoy voy a contaros mi experiencia al instalar en un  pc HP DV5 el sistema Mac X leoparD. Hace tiempo que queria instalarlo, pero viendo las incompatibilidades que aun existían con los procesadores y con el hardware de nuestros ordenadores decidí esperar. Hace unos pocos meses retomé el asunto para ver si las versiones que rulan por internet de dicho sistema eran mas o menos estables. Para eso consulte la experiencia de otros usuarios, algunos tutoriales y me decidí a Instalarlo. Como bien es sabido por todos, los ordenadores de apple son potentes ya que estos están fabricados  en base al sistema operativo. Es decir el hardware que encontramos en el mac es 100% compatible  con el sistema operativo. Pues partiendo de esta base lo primero que hice fue comparar  los componentes de mi pc  con un MacBook Pro. Mi sorpresa fue grande cuando vi que el 80% de los componentes de mi ordenador eran idénticos o parecidos al de el Macbook.  Para los que no esten muy puestos con los componentes que tiene su ordenador que tiren del programa Everest y saquen un informe completo de su ordenador. Este software le dará toda la información de su ordenador e incluso de los chipset de sus componentes.

Salvado el tema de la compatibilidad, tenia que decidir que version intalar, ya que existen varias distros con drivers y cosas diferentes, tales como la iatkos, ideneb, leo, etc..Existen distros para procesadores AMD o Intel, con unos componentes y otros. Así que tambien hay que asegurarse de que la distro que elijamos sea la mas compatible con nuestro pc.  Para eso hay una web con todas las distro y con sus caracteristicas llamada APPLEOSX86, donde ademas de encontrar las diferentes distribuciones, podemos encontrar tutoriales, consejos y todo lo relativo a la instalación de este sistema en pc. Yo personalmente me decanté por la distribución Iatkos.

Pues bien, siguiendo el tutorial que viene de esta distribución en la pagina mencionada me puse a instalarla y la verdad no fue nada difícil. Es como la instalación de un sistema linux, totalmente claro y sencillo. En unos 20 minutos aproximadamente tenia el sistema instalado en mi ordenador, conviviendo perfectamente con  Windows 7.

El primer contacto con el sistema fue muy gratificante...arranque en unos 30 segundos (este periodo de tiempo esta comprendido entre que pulso el boton de encendido, hasta que puedo ejecutar una aplicación) Exploración del sistema rapida, vistosa y estable. Navegación por internet ligera y estable. Estaba muy contento...pero.....algo tenia que fallar... Los Puertos USB no iban, ni aquellos componentes que el ordenador entendia que era usb como por ejemplo la webcam integrada :(

Pues consultando en foro la experiencia de otros usuarios, di con la solución, había que instalarle los ultimos driver para usb. Todos los driver los puedes encontrar en  la pagina KEXTS. A mi tan solo me bastó con instalar un paquete llamado Multibeast, en el que vienen actualizaciones de los controladores usb y otras cosas.

Una vez instalado el paquete ya tenia los puertos usb disponibles, la webcam y el lector de tarjetas, es decir tenia mi sistema Mac OSX totalmente operativo.

Pese a la complejidad que nos podemos encontrar por la incompatibilidad de los componentes y demás...una vez instalado y funcionando, nuestro ordenador gana en potencia. Se vuelve estable y seguro (olvidate de los antivirus) ademas de bonito. Cuenta con casi las mismas aplicaciones que usamos en windows. Como puedes ver en la captura tengo instalado el paquete office, mensajería, photoshop, chrome,etc y todo ello 100% funcional. La diferencia viene marcada cuando arrancamos un programa que requiere de muchos recursos del pc, en windows o se cuelga o va lento, con este sistema van  como la seda. 

Desde que lo tengo instalado, no entro en windows.

Como todos no tenemos 1.400 € aprox. para gastarnos en un Macbook,  instalar este sistema en nuestro ordenador es una alternativa altamente recomendada, como si tienes los 1.400 pavos  y quieres tener un primer contacto con el sistema Mac OSX.

Voy a comentaros las características recomendadas que tiene que tener nuestro ordenador para instalar este sistema:

-Procesador Intel Core2 duo o AMD Dual core.

-4 Gb de memoria ram (con 2 Gb. tambien funciona)

-Disco duro de 350 Gb de capacidad.

-Wifi con chipset  Realtek o Broadcom.

-T. grafica nVIDIA o ATI.

Teniendo estos componentes nos garantizamos la funcionalidad del sistema en nuestro pc.

Ni decir tiene, que si tenéis dudas o necesitáis ayuda, podeis contar conmigo para resolverlas,  bien dejando un comentario o a traves de mi pagina en facebook.

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Flurry Mobile Analytic Tool - How To Reach America’s Mobile Moms.

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How To Reach America’s Mobile Moms

Posted by Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD on Tue, Jul 02, 2013

  

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Apps are telling – they signal our personal tastes and interests. There are probably nearly as many unique combinations of apps as there are devices, and the apps we use reveal a lot about us. Based onPersonas that Flurry has developed for its advertising clients, we are beginning a series of blog posts to shed light on different groups of smartphone and tablet users and their app usage patterns. Moms -- who often control household budgets and expenditures -- are considered the prime audience for many brands. So we thought, where better to start our Personas series than by examining what moms are doing with apps?

Our analysis for this post relies on iPhone, iPad, and Android app usage during May of this year for a large sample (24,985) of American-owned smartphones and tablets. Discussion of app usage is based on time those devices spent in the 300,000+ apps that use Flurry Analytics.

What Apps Do Moms Use?

Moms, like most other groups, spend a lot of smartphone and tablet time playing games. In fact, on Android, more than half of the time American Moms spent in apps was spent playing games. Similarly, on iPad moms spent about half their time in games, but on iPhone, that percentage drops to a little less than a third of their time. On iPhone, lifestyle apps capture a larger proportion of Moms' attention (12%) than on iPad and Android devices.

As shown below, the second most popular category among moms on iPhone and Android devices is social networking. On iPad, newsstand (24%) was the second most popular category, demonstrating its strength as a screen for displaying magazine type content. 

 

Where Do Moms Over-Index? 

Most mobile consumers spend a large proportion of their app time in gaming and social networking apps, so what makes moms different from the other American owners of smartphones and tablets? Across iPhone, iPad, and Android, American Moms spend more time in education apps than the general population. Also, moms who own an iPhone or an Android device spend a greater share of their app time in health and fitness apps. Unsurprisingly, moms are also heavy shoppers. Android moms over-index for time spent in shopping apps, and iPhone moms over-index for time spent in catalog and lifestyle apps. (For this post, we have honored The App Store and Google Play’s systems for classifying apps. In iOS, shopping apps can fall into either the catalog or lifestyle category, whereas Android has a dedicated “shopping” category.) 

 

Moms Own More Tablets And Gravitate Toward iOS

Compared to other American device owners, moms are enthusiastic users of tablets. As shown below, among the general population 25% of connected mobile devices were tablets, but for moms that percentage is 35%. This could be driven by the fact that many parents use tablets for sharing games and stories with their children. 

60% of the smartphones and tablets we looked at were iOS devices. (Note that this number is a function of the installed base of active devices, so does not reflect market shares from sales in recent quarters.) For American Moms, the numbers lean even further toward iOS devices. A whopping 77% of moms own iOS devices while just 23% own Android. There are at least two factors that may explain this.  First, it could be a function of Moms’ greater tablet ownership since iPad dominates the tablet market. Second, surveys show that women in general skew toward iOS devices. The key takeaway is that moms are much more likely to be found using iOS devices than Android devices. 

For Moms, Connected Devices Are More For Escape Than Utility

So what can we infer about American Moms based on their app usage? For one thing, it appears that they use smartphones and tablets as a refuge from their busy lives. On average, half or more of the time they spend in apps is spent on social networking and game apps. In this sense, they are not that different from other Americans, but it does show that even busy moms need to escape and socialize, and mobile devices provide a way to do that.

Apps where American Moms spend a disproportionate share of time relative to other Americans also tell us something about their more serious side. Those apps tend to be improvement-oriented: education and health and fitness, for example. Moms are using their devices to help them achieve personal goals and possibly to educate their children.

We hope this post gives brands and developers a better idea of where the coveted American Mom is most likely to be during mobile time, and what is capturing their attention. App developers can tap into this valuable group by building experiences that give moms an escape from their hectic day-to-day routine, keep them socially connected, and help them improve different aspects of their lives. Media planners who want to reach American Moms should continue to buy ad inventory in gaming, news / magazine, and social networking apps, and to weight their budgets toward iOS app.

Finally, a Reason to Read Magazines on a Tablet

April 3, 2012 at 5:00 pm PT

Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Digital Magazines” consortium made up of the biggest names in publishing? It has finally delivered something worth talking about: Call it Netflix for Magazines.
The pitch is simple and intuitive: All the magazines you want, delivered digitally to your tablet, for a flat fee of either $10 or $15 a month.
There are catches, of course, and we’ll get to them in a minute. But the thrust of what NIM and its publishers are trying to do here is heartening, because it shows that they’re willing to experiment, for real.
They’re keeping their core business model — curated bundles of content sponsored primarily by advertising. But they’re making a key concession by not requiring consumers to make a commitment to any particular title and letting them swap out magazines at will.
Not a coincidence: Two years after the iPad launched, consumers have only shown a mild interest in tablet magazines — digital represents just 1 percent of the industry’s circulation. Publishers need to do something.
Now, on to the catches. The good news is that most of these are solvable. The bad news is that there are a few, and for now, they’re big:

• The digital magazines require an app that will only work on Android tablets running Honeycomb. Next Issue says it will submit a version to Apple soon and hopes to have it available this summer. No word on Amazon’s Kindle Fire or Barnes & Noble’s Nook, which run earlier — and heavily modified — versions of Google’s operating system.
• You can’t get any magazine you want: Just 32 titles from the four magazine publishers in Next Issue’s joint venture: Hearst, Meredith, Time Inc. and Conde Nast. (News Corp., which also owns this Web site, is a Next Issue backer, but hasn’t put anything it owns into this offering.) That said, the list includes lots of the publishers’ best-known titles: Sports Illustrated, Fortune, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Elle, Better Homes and Gardens, etc. Next Issue says it will add more “later this year,” and also plans to bring outside publishers into the offering.
• If you like reading magazines in both print and digital form, this offer won’t work for you. While publishers have recently started bundling print and digital subscriptions for the same price — essentially giving away digital in exchange for full-priced print subscriptions — these deals don’t include any print issues at all.

But for all of that, there’s plenty here to be optimistic about, whether you’re a magazine maker or a magazine reader.
Publishers have struggled to figure out how to take advantage of the iPad and other tablets, and for now they’ve ended up with something that looks and works almost exactly like a paper magazine, with a couple digital bells and whistles.
That’s not a terrible thing — some of the tablet issues work well, and publishers tell me they think they are selling them to new readers, which is a good thing.
But for two years there haven’t been many compelling reasons to pick up a tablet issue instead of a print one. Changing the basic subscription proposition, though? That makes things very interesting.
It’s also very much an experiment, which is the word every publisher I talked to about the launch used in the last couple days. “No one has done this before, and there are lots of practical reasons for that,” says Hearst’s John Loughlin, who oversees the publisher’s tablet efforts.
And publishers still have basic stuff to figure out, like how they’ll get paid for their titles. The rough idea is that they’ll get a share of revenue based on the amount of time consumers spend with their magazines, but they still need to hash out details.
The same goes for conversations about circulation and advertising. Right now, for instance, the magazines you read when you give Next Issue $10 a month (if you want monthly titles — if you want weeklies like the New Yorker, it’s $15 a month) won’t be counted in publishers’ official totals.
But all of that sounds good to me. It sounds like an industry ready to try some stuff and see what works. Just like all the start-ups that insist they want to disrupt it.
“Anybody that tells you that they have the answer, or that their model is the model that would be successful 5 years from now — they’d be suspect,” says Loughlin. “We’re very much in a learning mode.”

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¿Dónde esta el techo de Apple?

Dos firmas de análisis sitúan su acción en 1.000 dólares

¿Dónde está el techo de Apple?

La compañía fundada por Steve Jobs acumula una subida del 54% en lo que va de año y se mantiene en máximos históricos. Dos casas de análisis, Gene Munster y Topeka Capital Markets prevén que sus acciones alcancen los 1.000 dólares.

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En Toy Story el muñeco Buzz Lighyear no paraba de repetir la frase "hasta el infinito y más allá", unas palabras que se pueden utilizar para ilustrar la evolución bursátil de Apple, empresa que al igual que Pixar, la productora de la película de animación, estuvo dirigida por Steve Jobs. Y esa debe ser la frase en la que han pesado los analistas de las firmas Gene Munster y Topeka al pensar en el potencial de revalorización de Apple.
La firma de análisis Topeka sitúa la acción de Apple en los 1.001 dólares en los próximos doce meses gracias a las nuevas líneas de negocio y su expansión en China. La firma señala además que "la fiebre de Apple se está extendiendo como un reguero de pólvora por todo el mundo" y que "no vemos final a la vista en esta tendencia alcista".
Por su parte, el informe de Gene Munster afirma que "hay suficiente valor añadido para que en los próximos dos años Apple añada otros 400.000 millones de dólares a su capitalización" gracias a su inversión en tecnología y la presión de sus competidores, lo que podría situar su capitalización en un billón de dólares, y sería la primera vez que una compañía alcanzara tal cota. Munster asegura que la acción de Apple podría situarse en los 1.000 dólares en 2014, si bien sitúa el precio objetivo de la compañía para los próximos doce meses en 910 dólares, frente a los 718 dólares en los que estaba hasta ahora.
La cota de los 1.000 dólares por acción supondría un potencial de revalorización cercano al 62% frente al precio de cierre de Apple el lunes, 618 dólares.
Las mejoras en el precio objetivo de la compañía de la manzana son continuas. Aunque más moderada que las dos anteriores, JP Morgan ha elevado su recomendación sobre Apple de 625 dólares a 715, apuntando a las ventas del iPhone y del iPad como los elementos clave para los resultados de la compañía.
La compañía ha anunciado que publicará las cuentas de su segundo trimestre fiscal, que terminó el pasado 31 de marzo, el próximo 24 de abril, día en el que la compañía dará cifras sobre las ventas de sus productos, en concreto del nuevo iPad y nuevas previsiones. Por el momento, la organización Consumer Reports situó ayer a la nueva tableta de Apple entre los mejores tablets del mercado, un reconocimiento que llega semanas después de que la asociación diera la voz de alerta sobre los posibles problemas de temperatura del nuevo dispositivo utilizado en condiciones extremas.