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1) The Reader's View: Best of your feedback, comments and opinions
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/the-readers-view-best-of-your-feedback-comments-and-opinions/
Filed under: Odds and ends, TUAW BusinessThe Reader's View is our weekly roundup of some of the most upbeat, thoughtful, or just plain good comments that have been published by TUAW readers. This week, we still have some post-Macworld Expo 2010 comments coming in, as well as discussion of several posts that attracted positive comments this week.
The first comment, from Ed P, was added to David Winograd's coverage of his interview with Roland Saekow of BearExtender. It appears that Ed was actually at Macworld watching the interview being done: "Hey, I was watching this while ya'll were broadcasting! Macworld was Haute! Really looking forward to next year!"
We are too, Ed! Next, David's interview of Mitch Waite, developer of iBird Pro for iPhone, generated some very positive words about the app from aptly-named reader nature: "iBird is one of the best apps I have ever found. The [...]
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2) No Apple stock split...for now.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/no-apple-stock-split-for-now/
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple Financial
Thursday, Briefings.com, CNBC and a passel of other market analysts predicted that a 4 for 1 stock split would be announced at the Apple Shareholder Meeting. This rumor moved the market, but there are conflicting opinions to why. First, for the uninitiated, a stock split is a zero sum game. One interpretation is that a firm considers its stock too highly priced for the average consumer and decides to split. For example, let's say that Apple is trading for $200 and you have one share. If a 4 for 1 stock split takes place, you will wind up 4 shares, instead of 1, but each share will be valued at $50. Did you gain or lose any money? No. It's all on paper. However, to those not familiar with the Buttonwood tree, and that's a lot of us, it sounds like 'quick buy Apple and you'll be getting 4 times as much'. The case for this sort of stupidity [...]
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3) iPhone users come in all ages but probably live near a big city
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/iphone-users-come-in-all-ages-but-probably-live-near-a-big-city/
Filed under: Surveys and Polls, iPhone, iPad
The end of this week has brought a little flurry of information about the differences between iPhone and Android users. First up, Admob has released the results of a survey that says the iPhone is twice as popular as comparable smartphones in both young and old demographics. Unfortunately, we can only guess as to why (it would be a little more interesting if either age showed a preference for one phone over another), but it seems the iPhone has yet another remarkable trait: appealing to users of all ages. No wonder Apple is jumping in on the iPad -- they really do have a pre-release audience.
But they can't sit on their laurels for too long -- according to a report at Myxer's Boombox (via Fortune), the Android OS is picking up the pace, especially in what city folk call the "flyover states." Android use of the program has actually surpassed [...]
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4) iPod accessory turns up in fine art museum
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/ipod-accessory-turns-up-in-fine-art-museum/
Filed under: Accessories, ipod shuffle
I'm in Chicago right now visiting some of my friends. Yesterday we decided to go to my old workplace, the Art Institute of Chicago, which has one of the best collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the world. Imagine my surprise when I found myself staring at a first-generation iPod shuffle accessory.
Some of you may remember this accessory from back in the day when Apple made the first shuffle that looked like a white stick of Wrigley's gum. The accessory/piece of art is called iBelieve and is basically a T-shaped cap that turns your first-gen iPod shuffle into a Cross you can wear around you neck.
The plaque next to the artwork reads:
Scott Wilson
American, born 1969
iBelieve, 2006
iPod shuffle, plastic, and fabric
(including replacement cap)
Before relocating to Chicago in 2006 to set up his own studio, industrial [...]
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5) Quantcast: Apple share of OS growing while Microsoft shrinks slightly
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/quantcast-apple-share-of-os-growing-while-microsoft-shrinks-sli/
Filed under: OS, Odds and ends, Internet, Leopard
Research released today indicates that in North America, Apple's Mac OS X is gaining traction, while the Windows share of the OS market is shrinking ever so slightly. That's the report from Quantcast, a company that measures and analyzes web traffic. They say that the market share for Mac OS X is up 7% from December to January. Microsoft held steady for the last 3 months of 2009 with the release of Windows 7, but started a slow decline again in January.
According to Quantcast, Apple has a 10.9% North American share as of January, while Windows has 86.8%. An interesting note is that the largest group of users is on Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, while Windows XP dominates on the Microsoft side. Apple's relative share in North America is up 29.4 % in a year, while Windows share is down 3.8%.
These figures measure web consumption, so if [...]
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6) Phoenix Wright, Hexen II coming to the iPhone
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/phoenix-wright-hexen-ii-coming-to-the-iphone/
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Good news for fans of good games: the terrific DS courtroom simulator (which, trust me, sounds much less fun than it actually is) Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney is coming to the iPhone, and Slide to Play has posted some hands-on video. The game takes the two DS screens and stacks them on top of each other rather than converting the game into a landscape version, so it's basically a straight port of the DS game. It'd be interesting to see a more iPhone-specific version of the game (maybe something that uses the camera or the accelerometer to show off evidence in the courtroom), but we'll take just the port, too -- if you haven't played any of the Phoenix Wright games but enjoy a good adventure yarn, you're in for a treat. The game should be out "soon."
Hexen II is on its way to the iPhone as well, and Touch Arcade has a [...]
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7) Apple gives Vancouver Olympic visitors a rare treasure
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/apple-gives-vancouver-olympic-visitors-a-rare-treasure/
Filed under: Retail, Odds and ends, Apple
For some fans of the Olympic Winter Games, it's all about the beauty and grace of figure skating. For others, it's the organized chaos of short-track speed skating, or the aerial bravado of the half-pipe. And for some, it has nothing to do with the sports of winter. Instead, they're intent on pin trading and collecting.
While this may sound like an odd pastime, for some Olympic fans pin collecting is a huge deal. The official Vancouver 2010 website store lists 459 different pins for collecting and trading with others, but those aren't all of the pins that fans will find. Often, local businesses or organizations will make their own pins to give away or sell, and at these Winter Games, Apple joined in on the fun.
TUAW reader Alan Waite was in Vancouver earlier in the week to attend the Games and visited the Apple Store at Pacific Centre. Much to [...]
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8) Found Footage: Google's ad, Mac style
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/27/found-footage-googles-ad-mac-style/
Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Apple
Happy weekend! Google may have won some hearts with its Super Bowl ad a little while back, but we all know that Apple is the king of advertising when it comes to technology, so YouTuber allenmonroeiii decided to make a little parody of the Google ad and promote the Mac instead.
Strangely, it actually works -- while the audio is straight from the Google ad (which tells the story of a guy who finds love in Paris by searching on Google), the music serves just as well to tell the story of someone frustrated by a Windows PC purchase. No, this probably won't sell any computers (it's for us Mac heads to laugh at, considering that it was made in about an hour), but go ahead and enjoy it for what it is, and enjoy your weekend.TUAWFound Footage: Google's ad, Mac style originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 27 Feb [...]
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