For the protection of customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. It seems like that Apple get seriously about security, that's a assurance for apple production users. Yet, problems always will occur.



Like the following cases, after these, can we still trust what they say? Especially for those business users, there is a serious risk existing.

The Anonymous hacker group Claimed Sunday that it had stolen a small number of internal passwords and user names from an Apple server. But as if that's is an uncertified announcement, which means no one can say it's truth or just made up by someone.

Let's continue, Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack. It is reportedly working closely with hackers who belonged to Lulz Sec, the hacking group that said it was disbanding last week after 50 days of hacker havoc that included hacking sites such as PBS.org (Why they hack that?). The breach at Apple exposed 27 internal Apple usernames and passwords. As Apple users, what do we supposed to do? Nothing, just wait for apple to fix that, no matter what's the result, Apple productions are still our favorite(or not?).

On Twitter (I have a love-hate feeling to it), Anonymous said Apple could become a target (why is sound like a terrorist to me?), but for now the members were busy with other hacking targets. "Apple could be target, too. But don't worry, we are busy elsewhere," the group said (they are really busy). Earlier this month, Lulz Sec claimed it had breached Apple's iCloud servers, which operate the company's cloud music and photo service. But the group posted no evidence of the hack (that's what I'm saying, no evidence).



And another thing, as enterprise adoption rates for the iPad skyrocket, Apple has been forced to adjust its security thinking to placate its new business customers.

Just one problem: Employees won't be able to send encrypted email from their iPads, at least not yet. Blame Apple for an iPad email encryption capability that literally goes only halfway -- that is, to iPads but not from them. Apple says full email encryption will be coming in iOS 5, but in the meantime, users are stuck with a semi-solution.

"Symantec told us the problem is with Apple, they can't get the right interfaces into iOS," explains Wolfgang Krips, senior vice president of global IT infrastructure services at SAP. "It's not a deal killer but very serious, very frustrating." So goes the love-hate relationship CIOs have with Apple. Now the stakes are higher with iPads invading the enterprise at a meteoric rate. To be fair, Apple has responded recently to security concerns about its iOS. But does the company's newfound interest in enterprise security go far enough?


The attacks on Macs and Apple's response to them have stirred up new controversy in an ancient debate. Is OS X uniquely well protected from cybercrooks? As its market share increases, will it become a more enticing target? Are Mac users who don't use security software asking for trouble? Etc. Anyway, Apple knows its weakness and it is the first target for those hackers, what we can do is wait.(That's the reason I keep a distance with those high-tech stuff, not forbid, just have a limitation, or I just use some safe, easy functions like how to play quicktime video on ipad or how to convert mts to ipad on mac, just joking, if that's true…anyway it's not true)

In 26, Aug, Apple quietly removed the iTunes Store TV rental. Apple released the new Apple TV in September 2010, while introducing of television rental service, providing the television rental service of $ 1 per episode. But now the TV rental options just disappear, and Apple has confirmed the message that it has been removed permanently. So for those of you looking to rent your favorite TV shows from iTunes, you are too late.

A spokesman of Apple said, overwhelming data shows that consumers of iTunes are more desirable to buy TV shows, not rent. Now ITunes cloud allows users to download and watch their favorite TV show, as long as they have any device of IOS, not just Apple TV, even Macbook or Mac desktop, with them we can still enjoy these TV shows. iTunes cloud application was released in the WWDC conference in June 2011 for the first time, the, it supports resume, download music, books, and applications. And in earlier time this month, Apple has expanded its capabilities to allow users to download and resume TV shows on their computer and iOS, also, consumers can purchase the previous stream on Apple TV. Although the lease option is off, but the service to buy TV shows in iTunes still exists, $ 2 per episode, $ 3 per episode for high-definition TV. iTunes App Store provides a complete TV season. And it doesn't affect the movie rental in iTunes App Store.

Over the past year, rental prices have increased from $ 1.99 down to $ 0.99, but the users whoare interested in leasing service are still very few. Finally, Apple decided to give up the business, because its upcoming iCloud processor can transfer the movies and television programs that saved in iCloud to iPhone, iPad or other equipment that iCloud can support, then users can watch them conveniently. iCloud is in testing phase currently and will be officially launched later this year, may be at the same time with our long-waited iPhone5 and new iPod. The upcoming iTunes in the Cloud service will let you stream purchased content on all of your devices with ease. Considering the upcoming service, the rental of television shows just isn't attractive -especially when the cost of doing so isn't considerably cheaper than actually buying them, giving you all the time in the world to enjoy them on your schedule.

Knowing Apple, they haven't fully given up on television rentals. A lot of speculation suggests their next attempt will be with an iTunes in the Cloud television subscription service. Whatever they come up with, it will have to be more competitive with other streaming services out there right now. Hulu offers the streaming of many current television shows for free, while their plus service offers a large full-episode catalog for a low monthly fee. Netflix is another viable option, though their catalog is often somewhat slower to update. But I bet after Apple launching iCloud, most users will support them, after it's Apple, and if the release date is really the same with iPhone5 or iPad3, it will cause a great influence in the world.

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Just a few days ago, there was a big fight about patent dispute between Apple and Samsung in Australia, the most miserable sufferers must be enthusiastic fans of Android. Australia's Android fans should have been through a very depressed time, because this patent dispute, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung Tablet PC can't advertise and sale in their country at that time, they just waited Samsung to get the permission of the court and that lawsuit ended. Previously, Apple claimed that the Tablet PC Android of U.S. version violated 10 patents of company. While the lawyers from Samsung argued the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet PC sold in Australia wasn't same with American version, so Apple should not prosecute the patent issues of Australian version according to American version, by mutual agreement, the Samsung agreed to send this product to Apple to confirm whether it infringed the patent of Apple or not at least 7 days before releasing it.

Then Samsung denied the suspension of Samsung Galaxy Tab's releasing in Australia and announced they would release it as the original plan. According to the news that Ausdroid got from Samsung, the agreement that reached between Samsung and Apple was only for American version which had patent dispute, and Australian version was not same as American version, thus avoiding the problem of paten infringing In addition, although Apple prosecuted Samsung because these patent disputes to the central court of Australia, but they just reached an agreement as a solution, and Samsung had also not received an injunction from Australia's central court, so it seems like that agreement had no influence to the sales of smart phones and tablet PCs of Samsung in Australia and other countries. But now,

You have to admit, Samsung is really kicked by Apple. After defeated by Apple in Netherlands about the patent, Samsung once again announced they won't sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia before September 30. Even Samsung promised they would send the samples to Apple before launching it, and then did as promised, but Apple's lawyers insisted Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringed their patent. Facing aggressive Apple, Samsung is also planning a counter-strategy. This South Korean electronics giant will charge to the Court that the patent of Australia Apple is invalid, and even turn against Apple that they infringement Samsung's patent in iPhone and iPad. The next hearing will be staged in September 26th and 29th, I believe it will be very dramatic.

Except Australia and Netherlands, the district court in Dusseldorf, Germany granted Apple a preliminary injunction to against Samsung selling its latest 10.1-inch Android tablet in the entire European market. In fact, it's not because this court have any privileges, it's just Apple register the trademark design right for iPad, so this injunction can affect the entire Europe is not a strange thing.

No matter what the result is, the one who hurt definitely is Samsung. It seems like Apple has a great ambition to occupy entire Tablet market, TouchPad can't return back to life, and Galaxy Tab is under a big pressure because Apple, so the following Amazon, what's its future?

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Who is Comex? Never heard that name before? Ok, what about JailBreakMe? If you are an Apple fan, then that's what we are talking about. Comex is the inventor of JailBreakMe. And not long ago, it is said that he will join Apple to practice, which let many people concern whether he will continue to contribute to jailbreak community and provide better way to jailbreak. In an interview with TechCrunch, he answered some questions and gave his view of Apple andjaibreak, and he will not only continue to jailbreak, but also he won't stay in Apple too long and plan sometime return to university. When asked what he think about Apple steals the jailbreak idea, Comex said he didn't that much care, because the jailbreak application's performance is usually not perfect, but Apple can make these things come true through a perfect method, make these things become system functions in the end.

A couple days ago, Steve Jobs announced his resignation as CEO officially, which made many Apple fans very disappointed and grieved. But at meantime, another News let us feel kind of funny, Comex, the famous jailbreak hacker, who is the cracker of sJailbreakMe3.0develops and develops iPad2 jailbreak tool, said he has received Apple's invitation and prepared to go to work for Apple as an intern. Comex is a 19 year-old student in Brown University, his real name is Nicholas Allegra and he is a genius. Forbes has interviewed him before, showed us his other side as a common student. At the end of interview, the columnist of Forbes suggested that Apple should hire this talented young man. No one would have thought Apple moved so quickly, Comex did not disclose the scope of work in Apple, but apparently wouldn't develop jailbreak tools anymore. As for the congratulations from friends, Nicholas Allegra said, "I thought it could have negative reaction about my decision.

There are too many hackers get them in trouble because invading operating system, but also some hackers can get benefits because of this. Like Comex, which is Nicholas Allegra, an industry-renowned hacker who be famous for jailbreaking IOS, now get attention from Apple because his outstanding performance.

For the jailbreak program that provided by Nicholas Allegra, I bet you guys all know what it about, how to jailbreak iPad is no longer a problem for most of us right now, if users can successfully jailbreak, then they can run a variety of procedures on the iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch and no longer need recognition from Apple. And more important, the program provided by Comex also support reversible operation, it means if you don't want to jailbreak anymore, you can restore your Apple product, which is insurance for users, so now you know why Apple want him. Allegra said, JailBreakMe is not used to steal or damage something, it just allows users to install any software that they want, but as a jailbreak tool, it is not welcomed by Apple, because once it used by those malicious hackers, may cause unpredictable consequences.

After introducing JailBreakMe 3.0, Allegra also release a patch for a vulnerability that he found in PDF, so users can erase their jailbreak marks to prevent other malicious hackers to find and use the same vulnerability. Before Apple released the official patch, those iPhone or iPad that have been jailbroken even more safe than those haven't been jaibroken to some extent. So all Comex do is just because his interest, no commercial benefit.

No matter what's Nicholas Allegra's future will be, we will not forget this low-key big boy's contribution to the iOS users, hope his future is bright.

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The buttons are everywhere, plastic shell, Windows operating system, and the ugly shape that can let people be crash, you guys probably don't know what I'm talking about, ok, the Tablet PC before iPad appears, that's what I'm talking about, can you believe this is Tablet PC for normal people? However, the previous "Tablet PC", or more clearly, before the launch of iPad, that's what they look like, People always have question about what Jobs said, "Once again, change everything". If Apple did not release iPad, we won't know what Tablet PC would looks like nowadays. But history has no assume, all of the facts that have happened just prove a truth - although Jobs is ruthless, stubborn extremely and has a not very good character, but he has changed the world again and again.

Steve Jobs has special insights on the industrial design insights and meticulous work attitude, we can see his influence to way of life in 21st century from 313 patent invention he involved. In addition to manage daily operations of Apple, Jobs also plays an important role in development process of many products, from Macintosh computer to iPod, iPhone and iPad. Among Apple's patent portfolio, Steve Jobs is the main inventor or co-inventor of 313 patents. In contrast, Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder only listed as the inventor of nine patents, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Google co-founders only described as "a dozen." Specifically, Steve Jobs is listed in the first position of 33 patents, which means he plays a very important role. The most patens he takes part are related to shape and feeling of products. There are over 200 patents developed by Jobs and Jonathan Ivy who is Apple's design chief. Except that, some patents that Steve Jobs involved are related to technical details like software algorithms and computer chips etc. Now he resigned from Apple, his fans make lots of funny pics to show their love to him.

Maybe want to challenge marvelous Jobs and his Apple team, there always some hackers keep show up and prove they are better than technical team of Apple. According to the Science and Technology Information Station PCWorld reported that two Linux enthusiasts have successfully crack iPad, and implanted Linux along with the Android system to iPad, so who can say there is no jailbreak tools to use after Comex have been hired by Apple? More and more professionals begin to challenge iOS.

These two Linux enthusiasts are Patrick Wildt and Rick Taylor, they produce an iDroid, it can break iOS and allow Linux ran in iPad / iPhone / iTouch 4. Although there is no much information about jailbreak details, but Linux can be ran on iOS, that is exciting news anyway, because Apple's built-in A4-chip device is to prevent implanting other systems. According to the description of iJailbreak, after iPhone 3G, jailbreak iOS become more difficult, so that two techniques hackers do have extraordinary talent.

Two hackers will release more details about iDroid later, but now Patrick and his companion are experimenting with how to implant Linux in iPad 2, it has been proved a bit difficult (just like the process break iPad 2 in early time). However, with new crack technology, we expect to see the iPad with Linux.

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There is new evolvement about patent fight between Samsung and Apple. We all know that that two companies began to kick each other long long ago, obviously, who stared it is not important, as an Apple fan, I think the important thing is Apple is gonna have a tough time, facing so many competitors, HP, Amazon, Sony, not to mention Windows8 is coming, so it's reasonable that it feels be threatened and do something to retain its advantage. But the other company is not just some coward, they will challenge the giant and weaken it as possible as then can. So let's see what exactly happened between Samsung and Apple.

On Tuesday, Dusseldorf (Germany) Higher Regional Court said Samsung had filed an appeal to against the adjudication which been made last week that prohibited Samsung to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet in Germany. That court suggested in an announcement on that day that Samsung didn't expound its reason. In that adjudication, Samsung can't sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet in market of Germany, and Samsung's German subsidiary can't sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the entire EU market. Now according to media's report, On Monday, Samsung Electronics confirmed that it filed a complaint against Apple, Inc. in France for infringing on three of their patents. It looks like Samsung is trying a different approach.

Apple recently received an injunction against Samsung in Germany based on the physical attributes of the Galaxy Tablet 10.1. The latter is trying to gain support for the technical patents instead. The Samsung complaint was filed in July, but is not expected to be heard until this coming December. The complaint is against Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4 and both generations of the iPad. The two technology companies have been battling it out in the patent courts since April of this year when Apple filed complaints against Samsung for copyright infringement of their smart phones and tablets. Samsung filed counter suits in the U.S., claiming that Apple infringed on 10 of their patents. Since then, both companies have filed complaints against each other in Europe, Australia and Asia as well.

And let's back, previously, Apple claimed that the Tablet PC Android of U.S. version violated 10 patents of company. While the lawyers from Samsung argued the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet PC sold in Australia wasn't same with American version, so Apple should not prosecute the patent issues of Australian version according to American version, by mutual agreement, the Samsung agreed to send this product to Apple to confirm whether it infringed the patent of Apple or not at least 7 days before releasing it. Then Samsung denied the suspension of Samsung Galaxy Tab's releasing in Australia and announced they would release it as the original plan. According to the news that Ausdroid got from Samsung, the agreement that reached between Samsung and Apple was only for American version which had patent dispute, and Australian version was not same as American version, thus avoiding the problem of paten infringing In addition, although Apple prosecuted Samsung because these patent disputes to the central court of Australia.

Confused, right? That's what happened before, and it's just the tip of the iceberg, I bet it will not end in a short time, who knows who will win. But personally, I'm on Apple's side, do you? And as Apple fan, you definitely have to know these things: video to ipad converter and ipad to computer transfer, don't miss them!

I have talked about those competitors who against Apple enough, I mean HP, Samsung, Sony, Amazon, Mcrosoft, they all have released TouchPad or will release or will do something that related to TouchPad, even Lenovo, ok, Lenovo's TouchPad can not even be called "a competitor of Apple", so we can ignore it. Just a ring bell, do you remember PlayBook? How can you just forget it? It belongs to RIM anyhow. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending for it, I just want to get your attention, and plus, I'm always on Apple's side. Anyway, let's see what happens to PlayBook recently.

Research in Motion (RIM), depending on its new PlayBook to bolster sales as demand for its BlackBerry phones withers, may have shipped just one of the tablet computers last quarter for every 19 iPads from Apple. The company, probably sold about 4,90,000 PlayBooks during the first full quarter of sales, according to a Bloomberg survey of analysts, compared with the 9.25 million iPads shipped last quarter. Analysts cut estimates for full-year PlayBook shipments, to an average of 2.2 million, according to the survey. "RIM overplayed the PlayBook in terms of its sales and prospects," said Charlie Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co in New York.

"What this really shows is that the company's prospects will depend on the next generation of BlackBerrys." When RIM first disclosed plans for a tablet last year, analysts said the device had the potential to evolve into a significant new product category. Yet RIM didn't get the 7-inch tablet to market until April, a year after the first iPad and behind rivals such as Samsung Electronics. Even then, RIM drew criticism for introducing the PlayBook without dedicated e-mail or instant messaging and a shortage of consumer applications like Netflix movies. The company will ship about 1.5 million tablets this year, compared with 39.2 million for Apple and 7 million for Samsung, RIM hasn't given up on the Play-Book, but it's clearly off to a poor start. And we all know that Apple will release iPad3 soon, what iPad3 can do is unknown by now, but at least we know that we can enjoy all kinds of video via  copy dvd to ipad and sync itouch videos to ipad, no doubt that iPad3 will be more powerful, and it will be more convenient, at that time, the other Tablet will face a serious situation.

Someone says the PlayBook is perhaps the most useless thing to ever be released and yet it continues on with promises from the company that they'll fix it. That's not a product strategy. Even compared to TouchPad, it can't get any advantage, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the TouchPad was perfect, apparently it wasn't. However, it had the best chance to take second place to the iPad. More importantly, it had webOS, which many people thought was probably the best alternative to iOS. And now, see what happens. TouchPad has gone, PlayBook has sluggish sales, and now RIM just counts on its BlackBerry to make up its loss and dignity. RIM started selling phones that run on the BlackBerry 7 operating system in the US this month and in Europe last month. The company plans to shift to a new operating system, QNX.

So what am I saying? iPad VS PlayBook sales: It's 19:1, I'm trying not to be too exaggerated, but it's the truth, right? Apple is marvelous, and apparently we will chase after it for a long time, so let's just forget about PlayBook.

He said: Apple should be in no rush, which means iPad3 should be in no rush. Here "he" is an analyst called Mark Moskowitz, according to he, Apple should be wait to release iPad3. So what's this about anyway? Those rumors about iPad3 have spread for such a long time, when people, at least me just keep waiting its coming all the time, and now they say: no rush.

Analyst Mark Moskowitz with J.P. Morgan revealed on Friday that his conversations with industry insiders (who are those insiders anyway) have revealed that Apple's next iPad will not be available until sometime in 2012, even as prototypes for the device begin to circle in the supply chain. For some months there was rumor of an iPad 3 this year, or even an iPad HD (or iPad with improved resolution) this year with an iPad 3 coming next year. As always with Apple products it's a waiting and guessing game until the company chooses to let us know more. However a report on Apple Insider by Neil Hughes suggests there's not exactly a need to release another iPad this year, especially as Apple still has no real clear contender in the tablet market (that's true). Throughout 2011, reports persisted that Apple planned to release a high-end successor to the iPad 2, which was released in March. Rather than replace the iPad 2, it was said the new model would grow the iPad family, perhaps by offering a higher resolution display.

And while Apple works behind the scenes on its next iPad, in July an alleged "iPad 3″ part was discovered. A report accompanying that component suggested the model would sport a "brand-new design." But Apple should be in no rush to grow the iPad lineup, in Moskowitz's view, as competitors like Motorola and Research in Motion have disappointed with their own competing offerings. RIM announced on Thursday that it has shipped just 200,000 PlayBooks, far less than iPads Apple sold in its most recent quarter. According to recent figures released by the International Data Corporation (IDC), Apple's iPad 2 shipped 9.3 million units in the second quarter, hitting a worldwide market share of 68.3 percent, that's good news though, iPad2 has such unbelievable sales, but why we still desire for iPad3, because when Apple release his new products, that means they have improved them, which means iPad3 must be better than 2, we all know if we want to play flash video on ipad, we have to do it by video to ipad converter, so when we say we want iPad3, it just means we hope iPad3 have powerful functions that iPad2 doesn't have.

Moskowitz says the next threat may not come until late 2012, with the arrival of devices running Microsoft's new OS, Windows 8, just like I said before, Windows8 is coming, and Sony is working out its own Tablet, too. But you see, HP, Samsung or what else, they are so weak to compete with Apple, and HP Tablet just disappeared, so that's exactly what's happening with Apple in the tablet market, with competition to the iPad 2 so weak Mark says Apple should be 'in no rush' to release its rumoured iPad 3. And for now, with tablet shipments for 2011 expected to reach 62.5 million units, Apple can sit back and enjoy the ride. But for us, honestly, we don't want to wait any more.

According to media reports, Peter Misek, an analyst of Jefferies Securities wrote in a research report that he had received the reliable source about release time of iPad 3, he said this next-generation Tablet PC of Apple would be launched in late January 2012, which is earlier than expected. In addition to iPad3, Misek also claimed that iPad 2 HD is also in Apple's plan, and has produced close to 1 million units, but has been canceled due to unknown reasons now. As there is no related pictures about iPad2 HD, so when asked about the source, Misek did not give answers about that. But when talking about the biggest change about iPad3, Misek's expectation is almost same with the inside information that provided by the manufactures: quad-core chip, A6, 2048 x 1536 Retina Display.

We all know that iPad is the best-selling tablet in the world, iPad3 is the most expected device this year, but recently we are concerned about iPhone5, after the vacuum period of 15 months, Apple finally officially released iPhone4S. The press conference was host by the newly appointed CEO Tim Cook, and this is the first time that Apple launches significant product with Steve Jobs in recent years, iPhone4S' release is the most exciting activity recently, now everyone is staring it and considering to buy one, iPad3 seems to have been forgotten, but watch out, there is also explosive news about iPad3 right now, jailbreakiphone4u.com released a photo of called iPad3 engineering prototype, it has a raise part in the left bottom in this photo, and it's very conspicuous, they didn't say what the bulge is.

About iPad3 and the iPhone5, we don't know much about them yet, most analysts believe that there is no chance that iPad3 will be released his year, most likely be next year, and iPad3 will be thinner and lighter than iPad2. In addition, iPad3 may use wireless charging technology, it can support to transmit data wirelessly, too. Apple keeps improving the property of iPad, so iPad3 must be better than iPad2, and iPad  has been the lone cruiser among the tablet computers, we all know its gorgeous appearance and powerful functions, when we transfer dvd to ipad with high definition on that big screen, it feels so good, even though most videos can be played on iPad if we don't use dvd to ipad converter, but it's worth for us to have a visual feast. Although criticized for various technological deficits, most notably the lack of flash support and true multi-tasking, Apple's iPad has set the standard for others to follow.

Robert Scoble, a well-known blog author, he revealed a lot news about Apple on Google +, he said that Apple is developing a new iPad application, this application' R & D is led by Steve Jobs, it can directly compete with television program suppliers, and it will support a large number of contents. Apple built this 500,000 square foot data center is on purpose, the new data center can transmit large volume videos and data to the user's terminal. And the CEO of the famous video site Netflix will talk about the cooperation with Apple. However, but the release time of this application is uncertain yet.

According to media reports, Cook, the new CEO of Apple said, no matter who wants to imitate apple, they can't success. Apple is everywhere, he said so in the "Let's Talk iPhone" conference that held in Apple headquarters in California, he claimed that iPad is the incontrovertible number one Tablet, for now, everyone wants to imitate it, but all failed or haven't get the great influence as iPad do, like HP, RIM, Samsung, Amazon or the coming Window8.

A few months ago, HP TouchPad officially listed in the U.S., as the number one in PC industry, non-Apple camp had high expectations on the TouchPad, hoping it can shake the monopoly of iPad. TouchPad16GB priced $ 499.99 in the U.S. and 32GB priced $ 599.99. However, the response was not satisfactory, and HP had poor sales. Less than a month, TouchPad announced lower $ 100. But even so, it did not attract consumers' desire to buy it. August 19th, the TouchPad 16GB priced $ 99 and 32GB down to $ 149, this fire-sale, and finally led to frenzied purchase craze, all the stock in varieties of markets were sold out in a very very short time, some retailer's Web site almost crashed due to high demand. Only in (Best Buy), there was 25 million to 27 million new stock, almost all sold out in less than a week, I bet even Apple don't have this unbelievable achievement, huh huh.

And you may remember those clashes between Samsung and Apple. After defeated by Apple in Netherlands about the patent, Samsung once again announced they wouldn't sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia before September 30. Even Samsung promised they would send the samples to Apple before launching it, and then did as promised, but Apple's lawyers insisted Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringed their patent. The day before yesterday, Apple announced that it has rejected the suggest that offered by Samsung about solving the Tablet disputes peacefully, so we all can see who is the boss.

Because of the great temptation in Tablet market, Amazon, the largest Internet retailer in the world was coveted to pick up a little benefit from it too. But if something only sold $199, what qualification does it have to be called a competitor of something sold $499, but the low price is still an advantage anyway. According to Amazon's latest sales data, since Kindle Fire was released from Sep.28, the pre-sale orders have exceeded more than 250,000 units in the first five days. The market research firm eDataSource said, the order in the first day is 9.50,000 units. But, the first generation of iPad has 300,000 orders in its first day, and iPad2 keep this unbelievable myth, people love it, even even it has some flaws, we only can watch other format videos(except MP4) with the help of ipad converter suite or ipad video converter, but iPad is still our first choice, look the huge difference of those data, we know who is the boss.

According to BCG, compared to iPad, people are more looking forward to Windows Tablet, maybe it just because most people are very familiar to Windows Cooperation System, but lacking of the practical concepts about Windows Tablet, so when it finally show itself to people, the enthusiasm will disappear, and iPad will be continue to dominate the Tablet market.

Maybe you think you can have a rest after the crazy craze to iPhone4S, then you are wrong, because a bunch of rumors about iPad3 are back, a long time ago, some unknown mysterious apple employee who wasn't identified said that "ipad2 was a bit of a rush job and the third generation ipad is the one to make a song and dance about." But recently, it seems like we all focused on iPhone4S and left iPad3 behind us a little bit, so to get your attention, the rumor mill is back.

Let's see what's the word on the street about iPad3?

1. iPad 3 will support 4G?
Mobile devices of Apple that is 4G is very slow, most likely because the battery life matters. But the battery life of ipad is still incredible long, so the third generation version has the opportunity to support 4G, for now is Verizon and AT & T's LTE network. (To iPad3 has been released, Verizon and AT & T's LTE network should have been completed and put into market.)

2. 7-inch?
Jobs (he was a great man) said that he did not believe the 7-inch Tablet PC will be successful. But there are so many 7-inch computers Android have made a good example, some analysts seem like don't agree with Steve Jobs. I guess this rumor will never become a reality, due to the momentum of iPad, 7-inch Android PC virtually has no threat to them, and imagine how wonderful it is to watch videos on that high quality screen, but considered that Apple productions can't play other format videos on iPad, so to watch videos on them, mac dvd ripper is what we need.

3. iPad3 will use A6-the faster processor.

iPad3 will use more advanced and faster processor, this speculation makes some sense. Currently iPad2 is using A5 dual-core processor, but Android tablet which use quad-core processors is in preparation stage. Apple's next-generation A6 processor will catch up with Android or ever better? About that, the possibility is much bigger.

And as reported by AllThingsD, production has begun. Susquehanna financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro told AllThingsD that, after a supply chain check, it looks like Apple is increasing its fourth-quarter iPad builds by as much as one million units. The increase is speculated to be caused by an early iPad 3 production run. According to Fidacaro, "Since our last month supply chain checks we are now seeing 600,000 to one million iPad 3 builds showing up on the plan for the fourth quarter of calendar 2011. Our previous estimate did not include any iPad 3s." Fidacaro also told AllThingsD that he believes Apple shipped 11.5 million iPads in the third quarter and will likely ship 13 million in the fourth.

iPad2 is not perfect, either are other Apple productions, if we want to watch DVD on them, we need the help of some gadget like video converter ultimate, that's why we have expectation on the next generations, but it's pretty sure that iPhone5 wouldn't be released in a long time, obviously iPhone4S has replaced it, so some one guess will Apple play the same stunt with us that they will release iPad2.5 instead of iPad3? Funny guess.

Data shows that market share of Android Tablet have grown by 700% in the past year, while iPad's market share has fallen to 67%. However, if analysing the data further, we can find the iPad's leading position has not been changed. Nowadays, the Tablet market has a rat race, which is inevitable. Apple's market share will gradually decline. However, it's meaningless to compare the sales of a quarter of iPad with how much Tablet has been produced by other manufactures in a quarter.

So it's the truth that Apple still dominates the whole market. But Apple is not always so lucky, let's recall the time when Steve releasing the iPad, it was indeed a challenge to release iPad, even for Steve Jobs. After releasing the iPad, media had a lukewarm reaction, and some even laughed at Apple, and Jobs only received 800 messages from the users, which made Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple at that time feel deeply "disturbed" and "depressed." At the night after the release of iPad, Steve Jobs said to Isaacson: "Today I feel a litter depressed, it (the media's response) made me feel a little bit surprised." Of course, iPad has survived tenaciously, and compared to other Tablets, it has a higher popularity and the wider market prospect. Not just iPad, the other productions of Apple also become a part of our lives, like iPod, it's not only just a music player with a huge music library, with dvd to ipod review, we also can watch videos on it, so it's obvious that why Apple things are so popular among us.

Even though there are many so-called competitors now, but it seems like most of us prefer to study Apple, even those hackers. As soon as Siri has been known to the whole world, those jailbreak developers began to study it, they have ported Siri to iPhone 4, which is the fastest progress by now, and now they want to transplant it to iPad, the first generation, even though Siri becomes a vegetative state after being transplanted to other devices, which means it can't speak as it does in iPhone 4S, but they will not stop to transplant it, jailbreak developer @ jackoplane, who has ported Siri to iPad2 claimed that he has transplanted Siri to the first generation iPad successfully. No doubt, Siri can't be connected to servers of Apple when it is transplanted to iPad, but a developer called @ stroughtonsmith said that any iOS devices can be disguised as iPhone 4S cleverly, then can be connected with the Apple servers.

The pass hasn't over, but the coming is near, according to AppleInsider, iPad 3 will be launched in March, 2012, about one year after the release of iPad 2. The report also said the new iPad has the same size with iPad 2, but it is not clear whether it will have a higher screen resolution. No matter it is true or just rumors, what we are sure is the world still wants more Apple stuff, like iPod, even Apple is planning to reduce the product lines of iPod classic, but the quantity demand of iPod or related gadgets of iPod like ipod video converter can't not be ignored, so no matter iPad, iPhone, iPod or Mac, as long as it belongs to Apple, people want it.

It's said that Apple may won't release the new Pro, because Mac Pro's sales has a distinct decline among consumers and enterprises in recent years, so the Mac Pro product line is already not very profitable for Apple, that's the reason why Mac Pro has an uncertain future. Actually some observers have said before that Apple's management has been re-considered whether to continue investing its Mac Pro products.

And here is Mac's situation in the market. The entry level Macbook Pro, the 13-inch received a 2.4Ghz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor as well as a 500GB hard drive.  It still costs $1,199.  The next model is up of the same size, scored a 2.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 and a larger 750GB hard drive. The price also remains the same at $1,499. As for the 15-inch models, both now include quad-core Intel Core i7 processors.  The lesser of the two has a 2.2GHz processor and a 500GB hard drive and a faster AMD Radeon HD 6750M discrete graphics card with 512MB of GDDR5.  The faster machine now sports a 2.4Ghz chips, a 750GB hard drive and AMD's Radeon HD 6770M with 1GB of GDDR5.  They sell for $1,799 and $2,199 respectively. Lastly, the lower end 17-inch Macbook Pro scored the same update as the top tier 15-inch Macbook pro, though you can bump that to 2.5GHz for $250 more.  It starts at $2,499. We can see that Mac is still popular in the market, after all, it has sound functions, like with dvd copy mac, we can enjoy a bunch of DVDs on the other devices of Apple, but maybe the expensive price let consumers can't afford it, so Apple may want to give up that product line because less people will buy it.

Last week, Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge E Xeon processor pricing information has emerged, the E-series processors are likely to be equipped with the Apple Mac Pro early 2012 on, Mac Pro was last updated in 2010 medium, and Intel's new Mac Pro processors in turn release time from this year's delayed until next year. While the new processor release just around the corner, but there is news that the next Mac Pro product lines are not sure, Apple may not release the new Mac Pro. Informed sources said the Mac Pro products in consumer and business sales in the sales of recent years there has been significantly reduced, so the Mac Pro product line for Apple, has less money.

The report said Intel's latest Thunderbolt interface has been equipped with all of the Mac in the Apple models, the interface can greatly enhance the scalability of these Mac, Mac Pro and was only done to complete the task. Apple desktop sales currently account for 30% of all computers, while 10 years ago, the figure was 70%. This is also from the side shows the importance of Apple's desktop computers are constantly reduced.

Without question, Mac has been a part of our lives, we almost use it all the time, looking for information, watching videos with dvd ripper for mac, etc, but since it has rumors about Apple may won't release Mac Pro, it says something, maybe.. I don't know, just for ordinary consumers, maybe they don't want to buy it because it's too expensive.

Certainly you are familiar with iPad, iPod and iPhone those Apple brand products, but there is still a question about Apple TV, when I first heard that name, I pictured a big screen television with special features in my head, of course, now I know it was an honest mistake.



This week the folks at Apple have sent out an update to Apple TV users everywhere that they could have the newest build that addresses several issues found in the version released right alongside the iOS 5 release this October. Apple TV version 4.4 is now updated to version 4.4.3 which is indeed the third update since the original 4.4 release. For those of you still on a pre-4.4 release, note that everything newer adds several features like Wall Street Journal Live, National Hockey League Content, Photo Stream, AirPlay Mirroring support, and iTunes Trailers.

The early Apple TV models had a hard drive that would sync with your computers' iTunes libraries. You could also buy movies from the iTunes store and save them to the Apple TV's hard drive. However, the second generation Apple TV does not have a hard drive so it can only stream media. But if you want to watch DVD movies in Apple TV, easy, you just need a free mac dvd burner to copy movies to your iTunes, then you can hook up the Apple TV to iTunes.

So here is a question, what do we need to know about how to set up Apple TV?

1.First, you need to buy one HDMI cable. Plug the cable into your HDTV or receiver and your Apple TV. Connect the device to a power outlet, then it will boot up.

2.Then, you need to choose the language you speak.

3.The Apple TV will then scan for available WiFi networks to connect to (assuming you're using WiFi, that is. The Apple TV can also connect via Ethernet). Find yours and choose it. Then enter your password (case sensitive, of course) and hit "done."



4.Choose whether you want your Apple TV to report diagnostic information to Apple or not, and continue.

5.Make sure Home Sharing is enabled on your main home computer. Home Sharing allows you to stream content from your iTunes library to the Apple TV to be displayed on your HDTV. Sign into Home Sharing with the same iTunes account used for sharing on your main iTunes library.

6.At this point, you should be all set. The Apple TV ought to be connected to your WiFi network and the Internet, as well as the iTunes library on your computer.

And remember, even though we can't save movies in the hard drive, because the newest Apple TV doesn't have hard drive, but we still can watch many DVD movies with it, what we need to do is copy dvd on mac, hook up those DVD movies to our iTunes library, then connect Apple TV to iTunes.

What's your most wanted gift for Christmas? iPod? iPhone? iPad or Kindle Fire? Maybe it's not necessary to compare iPod with iPhone or iPad, after all, they are family, so let's see the how it's going between iPad and Kindle Fire.

Black Friday and Christmas season are about to ensue, at this spree, the sales of award-winning Amazon Kindle Fire can overshadowed Apple iPad? According to the survey, more than 2,000 respondents, 51% said more like Kindle Fire between two. These data is very interesting, because the amount of respective is the same, but when then actually go to the shop and buy what they want, iPad has a distinct advantage. The survey found that in answer to "Holiday is most likely to buy Tablets products," when 62% of people voted for the iPad, Kindle choose who accounted for 38%. Of course, the real sales data, but also to the season ends, we will get from Apple and Amazon. However, an obvious phenomenon is that a certain number of people, they like this, but buy another. However, no matter which one you decide to buy, here is a tip for you to use your Tablet as you wish, if you want to enjoy your files in iPad or Kindle Fire with another devices like PSP or Blackberry, you will need drm removal, because we all know the files in iTunes or Kindle all have drm protection.



Among the potential new users who are interested in buying the Tablet PC, about 65% of people said they intend to buy iPad, and iPad customer satisfaction is as high as 74%. ChangeWave Research recently published in November for U.S. consumers interested in buying the findings of the Tablet PC. ChangeWave Research from North America to recover a total of 3043 questionnaires were asked ticket receipt, which the Amazon Kindle Fire 22% of potential users to purchase rate firmly occupy the second place ranking; Samsung Galaxy Tab 4% in third places bit. ChangeWave Research's survey, November 14% of U.S. consumers intend to buy in the next 90 days the media tablet computer products, in August this year, this ratio exceeds 6% of the survey more than doubled, it is drawn over the same period last year 4% of the survey results more than three times.

According to Nielsen's statistics, for users that between 6 years to 12, iPad is their most want holiday gift, and this is iPad the second consecutive year be the top in this list. About 61% of the iPad buyers are parents. Market growth will not only bring revenue Tablet PC manufacturers, but also increase the demand for child-related content. To Walt Disney and other industries on the giant, down to small innovative companies currently are developing games, interactive books and other applications to attract children. Once you having these files in your iPad or Kinle Fire, to take full advantage of them, you'd better have a free drm removal, so you can utilize these resources in your other devices.



So obviously, Apple is still completely dominating the Tablet market, even though the release of Amazon Kindle Fire is a direct challenge to Apple, but we can see the difference between them, according to the record, iPad continues its leading status to be the most popular gift for Christmas.

The challenge to Apple has never stopped, and we all remember those MP3 players, Tablets and mobile phones produced by Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung, HP and Nokia etc, none of them succeeded, some of them ever quit from the market forever. So what have we learned from all these examples?

Just like what Michael Scott has said, "You can fight with myth, once it spreads in the Internet, it can't be changed." There have been numerous companies to challenge Apple's myth, the most famous is Microsoft's Zune challenges iPod, at that time, Microsoft was confident about the technical performance of their product, and they had plenty of marketing funds, but what happened after a few years? iPod is still the most popular MP3 player and iPod touch is becoming an essential part in our lives, we use it to listen to music, to play games, to watch movies, to do everything we can imagine. We can transfer music from ipod to computer and even can make phone calls with iPod touch, so now you know how funny Zune wants to challenge iPod.

How does Zune stack up against the iPod? The general opinion is that Microsoft did all right, but maybe not quite enough to counter Apple's dominant grip on the MP3 player market. Zune handles all of the basics -- music, video, podcasts, apps, games and photos. The Zune and the iPod share many of the same features, including a touch screen interface and built-in WiFi. The Zune HD's screen is smaller than the one on the iPod touch -- 3.3 inches compared to 3.5 inches, respectively. The Zune HD also features an HD radio tuner, something the iPod touch doesn't have. But the demands of iPod are always bigger than other devices, as well as those accessories like ipod to itunes transfer free. So why would this happen?



Steve Jobs had commented on the causes of Microsoft Zune's failure, "When I grow older, I realize the importance of 'motivation'. Zune is a failure, because Microsoft does not love music and art like we, we win, because we love music from the heart. we produce the iPod is for our own, when you really do things for yourself, your friends or family, you will not give up easily, but if you do not like it, then you would not take one more step and would be reluctant to work overtime on weekends, you just only indulge in the status quo. "

The analysis of reasons why Apple succeeds from Jobs seems like have nothing unique. But in fact, Apple's unique value inherent in the attitude of excellence and depth of the potential demand of consumers to grasp. Jobs said he never did market research, never hired marketing consultant, he said: "You can not walk on the streets to ask someone 'what is the next great product?'"

So to me, the revelation is you can't just follow Apple and copy their products, what you need to do is to figure out why they produce these products, what demands have they seen from the market.

Last week, Apple updated "Free App of the Week" in App Store, even we don't know if the developers of those apps agree to reduce the price voluntarily or Apple has promised to make up for them, no matter what, for us, it is good news though. Moreover, another good news comes recently, which is Apple updates the "Editors' Choice" in App Store.

Apple says they will present the most innovative applications and fun game in the "Editors' Choice" to users. Taking a look at this section constantly to know the newest apps and games, information of updates in App Store, or visit the former "Editors' Choice" to add more excellent applications and games for iDevices. So that Apple can be more flexible when selecting applications. And Apple makes it clear in iTunes that all the recommended applications and games are screened by their editorial team. This function now mainly serve for iPhone and iPad, so if you own one of them, why not try the recommendations, also, if you prefer to watch movies on iPad, you can transfer a tons of movies to it with ipad converter.

"Editors' Choice" will save a lot of time for users who want to choose the wanted games and apps. If you trust Apple's editorial team, then now you can go to "Editors' Choice" to see what apps they are recommending. Some current Editors' Choice picks on the iOS App Store include the new Facebook Camera app, Extreme Skater, Sketchbook Ink, and Air Mail. On the Mac App Store, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Cobook are being highlighted as Editors' Choices.



So you can see that this activity is not just helpful for us users, it's also a chance for game developers, obviously, after all, most people will try the app that recommended by Apple's editors. You know, there are millions of apps and games in App Store, and not every of them will be known by users, unless an app appears in the various stores' top 10 or at least top 25 lists, chances are that most users will never see it unless Apple decides to feature the app in its "new and noteworthy" section.

Now here are the questions. Are the "Editors' Choices" selected by curators based on what they consider a top app product? We don't know. What the criteria would be to have an app be selected as an editor's choice, we have no idea. Even Apple has declared that the editors are from Apple, still we don't know. But one thing is for sure, which is the app or game must be worthy, if not, there is no chance that it would be chosen by editors.

When you really don't know what apps and games to install in iDevices, you can consider "Editors' Choices", and download them in iTunes, and here is a tip for you, if you have downloaded anything in iTunes that has DRM protection, free drm removal can help.