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Why iPhone OS 4.0 will be later to the iPad

Apr 09

PhilTechnology, iPhone Apple, comment, ipad, iPhone, OS4.0, predictions 1 Comment

Apple yesterday announced that the new iPhone OS 4.0 will be hitting the ubiquitous mobile phone/device/mini-computer in the Summer, but the iPad would have to wait a few more months until Autumn (the Fall as they would call it). Call it paranoia, but I have a theory why this might be.

The iPhone traditionally sees a new model around the end of June. So that would tie in nicely to the release of iPhone for OS 4.0. Many features, most notably multi-tasking, will not be available to older models except the most recent iPhone 3GS. So to get all the new shiny goodness of OS 4.0 on their device, many iPhone users will have to upgrade. This will generate a ‘need’ in consumers minds so that they end up buying new hardware to run the ‘must-have’ features of the new iPhone OS.

However, the iPad will still only be about three months old by the end of June, and Apple may well be planning to upgrade the iPad’s specs, but not that soon for fear of really, really, upsetting their early iPad adopters.

So I think that Apple will revamp the iPad in 6 Months time, about September-time, and coincidentally will release OS 4.0 for the iPad at the same time. This will drive many who had been critical of the iPad’s first incarnation to think again about purchasing now it has better specs and a shiny new OS. This will also give consumers time to get used to having OS 4.0 and its enhanced features, and they will be gagging to get this same functionality on their iPads too.

Am I being cynical? Time will tell…

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Read it Later – Digest

Mar 10

PhilTechnology, Web Apple, beta, browsing, free, Instapaper, ipad, lists, readitlater, services, video, Web No Comments

I don’t know about you, but when I am online, specifically when I am on Twitter I see numerous links every day to articles or blog posts or just sites and services that I want to check out, and usually I don’t have time to look at them. So I have become an avid user of the Read it Later service.  But it is just about to get better!

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Mac Quicktip: Very fast way to get a more detailed Airport view

Aug 14

PhilQuicktips, Technology Airport, Apple, How-to, Leopard, Mac, OSX, Tips, Tutorials No Comments

I didn’t know about this tip, and as a Trainer I like to pass on the knowledge in the hope it will help someone, somewhere, have a better day.

So, the credit for this quicktip goes to Dave Hamilton from the excellent MacGeekGab in Epsiode 214:

I knew that on Mac OSX, if you click on the Airport icon in the menu bar, you would see the name of the wireless network you had connected to, and any others in range, plus a little padlock to the side to indicate if security was enabled on that base station. This is the standard view as illustrated on the right.

But what I did not know More