Linked List: March 7, 2012

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’ 

Claim chowder of the day.

AT&T and Verizon Keep Data Plan Pricing the Same for the New iPad 

I’m happily surprised by this — I expected them to charge more for LTE than they do for 3G.

‘It’s Not Just a Spec’ 

Ryan Block’s first impressions of the new iPad:

It’s the best display I’ve ever seen. Anywhere, period. And it makes a meaningful difference to the experience — it’s not just a spec.

Yes.

‘This Article Generating Thousands of Dollars in Ad Revenue Simply by Mentioning New iPad’ 

The Onion covers the new iPad.

Netflix: Integrated iTunes Sign Up and 1080p HD on Apple TV 

Bill Holmes, Netflix:

Starting today, you can sign-up for Netflix directly on your Apple TV and pay via your iTunes account. Plus, with the new third generation Apple TV, you’ll also be able to watch thousands of hours of great movies and television streaming on Netflix in 1080p high definition and with room-filling Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.

You can sign up for MLB.tv on Apple TV through your iTunes account now, too. All of this is coming to everyone with the previous Apple TV, too — the only difference between the new and previous Apple TV is 1080p.

Correction: Another difference: the new Apple TV supports Bluetooth 4, which means going forward, it might support advanced remote peripherals that the old 720p Apple TV doesn’t.

The Name 

Jonas Lekevicius on Apple’s decision to call the new iPad just “iPad”, and refer to it in marketing as “the new iPad”:

And here’s a prediction: the next iPhone will simply be “The new iPhone”.

I like that prediction.

Lightroom 4 

Speaking of cool new photo editing and management software.

iPhoto for iOS 

Unbelievably impressive software. The tools are useful and innovative, the use of touch is both natural and fun, and it’s chock full of nice little touches, like being able to choose which side of the display you want the thumbnails on.

I thought the understatement of the day was at the very end of Randy Ubillos’s demo, when he added, as a mere aside, that iPhoto is a universal binary that runs on the iPhone too.

iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps? 

They sure don’t look like Google Maps to me.

Update 1: But I asked, and was told that the maps data is indeed still from Google Maps.

Update 2: OK, what I’m hearing now is that Places still uses Google Maps, but the maps in Journals and slideshows are not using Google Maps, and are Apple’s own stuff.

Video From Today’s iPad Introduction Event 

Whole thing is worth watching, as usual, but I thought Tim Cook’s wrap-up was especially interesting:

“Only Apple could deliver this kind of innovation, in such a beautiful, integrated, and easy-to-use way. It’s what we love to do. It’s what we stand for. And across the year, you’re going to see a lot more of this kind of innovation. We are just getting started.”