This morning the iPhone 4 has started selling, with a large number of people standing in line for the chance to purchase one.  Lines much longer than those seen for the start of sales of the iPhone 3Gs and for the iPad were reported in Apple’s 5th Av. store in New York as well as other locations.   Long queues with people numbering in the hundreds have been reported in other countries which are also part of the first wave of the iPhone 4′s roll out. TUAW  reader David Platt sent them information from the queue in front of an Apple Store in Charlotte, North Carolina, stating that there...

In a press release Condé Nast, publisher of several magazines including Wired and several Web properties announced that it would be launching a Gourmet application for the iPad, bringing back the brand of the Gourmet magazine that was discontinued last year. The brand has a lot of recognition and some comments made by people with past relation to the magazine suggests that a good deal of content for the iPad application may come from the archives of the original printed magazine, instead of being newly created. With the huge sales success of the first issue of Wired for iPad I imagine that Condé Nast...

Apple has issued a press release informing that it has sold 3 million iPads in 80 days.  During these 80 days 11,000 applications specially developed for the iPad have been made available in the US App Store. In the same press release Apple confirms that next month the iPad will start selling in nine additional countries. In the same sentence they state that they are working hard to get the device into the hands of customers in a non-explicit reference to the fact that the device is selling so fast that it continues to be hard to find the model you want if you just walk into a...

Apple has made available the iOS 4 update for users of compatible devices.  This operating system upgrade is available for free for all devices from the second generation on up.  This means that it just the original iPhone and iPod Touch are not capable of running the new operating system. From what Steve Jobs mentioned in his presentation of iOS 4 and later of iPhone 4 it seems the upgrade restrictions are really a matter of the older hardware being incapable of coping with the demands of running multiple user tasks or handling the graphics requirements involved with the new software.  Ars...

It has been confirmed that the new model iPhone which is set to be released this month will have 512MB or RAM, instead of the 256MB that the iPhone 3Gs and the iPad have now.  This information was revealed at a developer session at Apple’s WWDC conference and has now ben confirmed as Apple made available online to its registered developers recordings of the conference’s sessions. This increased RAM should allow the iPhone 4 to handle multiple tasks better than the current 3Gs model and the iPad, both of which will be receiving operating system upgrades that will allow them to support...

Apple is certainly getting a lot of attention these days and the incredible amount of interest in its new products has propelled its stock to new heights.  Today shares reached an all-time-high of $272.90, for a brief period. Apple stock has trended upwards for the past couple of years with the release of several successful products the latest of which seems to be the iPhone 4 which comes just a few months after the launch of the iPad which was also extremely well received.   With the iPad still in short supply in stores around the world and in the US, it seems that Apple is going to have a hard time...

Apple issued in a press release a statement about iPhone 4 sales in the first day of pre-orders.  In the statement Apple states that more than 600.000 phones were sold in the first day, which far surpassed their expectations leading to problems with the ordering systems of some partners. (One of which seems to have been AT&T in the US.) The following is  the entire statement: Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated,...

It would seem that the iPhone 4 is going to get as warm a reception, and perhaps even more so, as the iPad had.  This Tuesday was the first day of pre-orders for the phone and it seems that iPhone 4 users were out in force.  At first it was AT&T that changed its target delivery day, but by the end of the day Apple’s online store seemed to have gone through its inventory of iPhones for delivery on the 24th, the first day of sales. Currently the Apple online store is showing a shipping date of July 2nd. It should be fun to see Apple’s sales numbers once they start to make them...

The App Store is now showing more than 10,000 apps specifically for the iPad.  That is an impressive mark after just two and a half months since the device was first released.  This is all the more impressive because iPad apps tend to be more complex and extensive in functionalities than their iPhone and iPod siblings. It is just natural that having much more screen area users would expect more of the applications and that developers would find ways to explore it.  Many iPad applications are much closer  to desktop applications to what you would expect and be used to on the iPhone or iPod, as they...

Yesterday Apple started accepting application submitted for running on iOS 4, the operating system of its upcoming iPhone 4.  This same operating system should find its way onto iPads in the second half of 2010. Among the new features of iOS 4 is he ability to run several third party applications at the same time and to organize your applications into folders.   Another improvement that will extend to the iPad when the new OS becomes available are a central Inbox view for multiple email accounts. The new iPhone will be available in stores later this month but no date has been set for the availability...

A security breach on AT&T’s website has exposed private emails of about 114,000 iPad 3G owners as well as their ICC-IDs (the IDs of their SIM cards).  This breach was accomplished by exploiting a vulnerability to specially formatted HTTP request which has since been fixed. A hacker group was able to automate the query for information process by creating a script to issue these special HTTP requests and thus obtain the email information for a long list of individuals which would seem to include many highly placed executives, politicians and celebrities which were early iPad 3G...

During his keynote presentation earlier today Steve Jobs announced a name change for iPhone OS.  The new version is now going to be called iOS 4. When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense as with the iPad and iPod Touch both running the operating system there are actually more types of running it that are not phones than that are. The are some interesting new features in the new version of the operating system but it is too early to tell which of them will be available on the iPad and in which form, due to the hardware difference between the current iPad and the iPhone 4.  The new iPhone has...

It seems that it didn’t take long after the iPad 3G was released for them to realize that they were wrong, and that the iPad would not really be used in Wi-Fi mode most of the time.   Let’s be serious… Who in their right mind would commit to purchasing a much 25% more for a device that can be online all the time, without really planning to use them so. People must certainly be using their iPads to get online through the 3G network, as that is why they bought a 3G model.   The fact is that AT&T will be discontinuing the unlimited plan which now costs $29.99/month and replacing...

Jetstar, an Australian budget airline announced plans to offer iPads for rent as an in-flight entertainment system.  Passengers that choose to pay the A$10 (or roughly US$8.45)  it will be charging for the use of the device will have access to a variety of content including movies, e-books, TV shows, games and music. A test run of this service will start in June and if there is sufficient demand it will be extended to more domestic flights.  Jetstar is a subsidiary of Qantas a more widely known Australian domestic and international...

Apple has just  announced that it has sold 2 million iPads in under 60 days from the initial availability of the iPad, on April 3rd.   Just last Friday the iPad went on sale in nine contries and it will start selling on nine additional countries in July. As it enters new markets the iPad is giving no signs of slowing its roll.  Users lined up last Friday in every country on which it went on sale with some places like Tokyo having stores with more than a thousand people in line when they opened.