Apple Airs First iPad Ad During Oscars, Steve Jobs Spotted At the Event

Apple Debuts iPad Commercial During Oscars

It looks like the iPad did indeed decide to join Steve Jobs at the 82nd Academy Awards, at least in the for of Apple’s first official commercial. Is the Oscar setting fitting for a media consumption power house, or was it just the huge audience?

It featured music like all previous iPhone and iPod touch commercials, and showed a variety of features, point-of-view on iPad’s held on a variety of laps. You can watch it now via Apple.com [Thanks Swiftman!].

It ended with the US shipping date of April 3rd.

We’ll post it or link it when we find it!

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Apple Cracking Down on iPhone Apps Built Using App Generators?

Apple Airs First iPad Commercial During Oscars, Steve Jobs at Event [Ad Video Posted]

Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju:

The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap, going through the various features (iBook...

Impressive a medical search engine on your iPhone

MedTango.com has developped an iPhone version of their Medical Search Engine that is very impressive. It contains all the information that are in the web version of the web application, but totally adapted to the iPhone. Very good job from the team behind it.

Your iPhone is also automatically detected apparently, I guess the iPod Touch as well.

MedTango is also available on Android, I’ve just tested on my Google Nexus One, and it looks the same as on the iPhone.

If you want to have a look, here it is:

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Steve Jobs on Oscars Red Carpet

Likely there to cheer for Up and Pixar, Disney’s largest shareholder (oh, and Apple CEO!) Steve Jobs walks the Oscar red carpet at the Academy Awards.

(No, we don’t know who he was wearing, or if he had an iPad in an extra-large, Stephen Colbert-sized tux pocket, okay?)

(WayneSutton.net via @TUAW)

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Apple Cracking Down on Mass Produced, Low Functionality Apps?

TechCrunch is reporting that companies who mass produce (or provide tools and templates for the mass production of) “cookie cutter” apps are hearing that they need to add differentiation and functionality or risk Apple not allowing them into the iTunes App Store. Jason Kincaid says:

Between the developers I spoke to, the consensus was this: Apple doesn’t appear to be opposed to ‘app generators’ and templates per se, but in the last month or so it has started cracking down on basic applications that are little more than RSS feeds or glorified business cards. In short, Apple doesn’t want people using native applications for things that a basic web app could accomplish. For some of these services that’s bad news, because that’s exactly the sort of application they produce; any new applications they submit are going to get rejected. But all hope isn’t lost for them, provided they can make their apps more useful.

Kincaid says Appmakr for one has taken suggestions from Apple to improve things like in-app purchases, instant notifications, offline access, and landscape viewing modes and describe the process as positive. Other services apparently haven’t had as much luck.

The move seems to be part of Apple’s ongoing efforts to increase the quality of the App Store experience and protect the brand. Much like the removal of sex-based apps last month, “cookie cutter” apps could seen as low value, sometimes verging on spam. For consumers it could result in a cleaner App Store and ultimately better apps (more than just re-packaged RSS feeds) but at the expense of quantity and choice. For developers, it’s likely another in a list of things they’ll consider before building on Apple’s platform.

If Apple is indeed working on revamping the mass produced app, what think you?

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Best of Smartphone Experts, 7 Mar 2010

Hands-on with Motorola Devour Motorola Backflip, AT&T’s first Android phone, now available for $99 Apple sues HTC, Day One and Day Two Roundup Android Central Podcast is here!	BlackBerry Slider Photos Emerge! BlackBerry Slider Rumors Update and Roundup CrackBerry Podcast: BlackBerry Slider Special Edition!
Nokia C5 Announced The Four Classes of Nokia Smartphones Nokia Nuron coming to T-Mobile	Facebook for webOS Updated Porting iPhone Games to webOS ‘a matter of days.’ Verizon Drops Mail-in Rebate on Pre Plus, Pixi Plus
TiPb is Giving Away an iPad! First Chance to Enter: Subscribe to the TiPb YouTube Channel! iPad Wi-Fi Available in US on April 3, Pre-Orders March 12, International Late April Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement — Complete Coverage	Microsoft gives a few more hints for Windows Phone 7 Series plus, HTC HD2 (again) is officially off the upgrade path Opera Mini 5 beta now on Windows Mobile as a native app More Microsoft Courier details, renderings and video get leaked

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Google backs Android and HTC, Apple may force HTC to remote cripple smartphones, AT&T CEO says iPhone important for some time

Google has announced that it is backing HTC and Android in the patent feud between Apple and HTC. Google wasn't named in the suits, but HTC builds its Nexus One device. A patent expert is warning that if Apple wins its patent suit against HTC, HTC could be forced to remotely ...

InfiniBoard - iPhone App To Enable Vertical Scrolling On SpringBoard

ITunes Store/App Store Outage?

We’re getting lots of reports from lots of different places that Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store are down or otherwise erroring out for users.

Hopefully Apple is working on a fix and things will be back up soon. In the meantime let us know if you’re getting errors, what kind, and in what country…

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Valve’s Portal 2 Confirmed for Mac

After Valve's series of teaser images, it's now been revealed that their upcoming sequel Portal 2 will also be coming to the Mac. The above image comes from a series of scans from the latest issue of Gameinformer magazine which carries a cov...

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reMail may be reIncarnated as it goes open source

Filed under: iPhone, App Store

Several weeks back, we noted that Google had acquired reMail, and had placed founder Gabor Cselle and others from the reMail team on other Google projects. The reMail app distinguished itself from the iPhone's built-in Mail.app in several ways:

• It could download all of your emails in a way that takes up a much smaller footprint than in Mail.app on the iPhone.
• Its search feature is much faster than Mail.app, and is accompanied with niceties such as autocompleting the names of your contacts, remembering your past searches, and text mark up matches in your search results.
• And lastly, reMail's search is full text, unlike the header search like in the Mail.app.

Though reMail is no longer being offered in the App Store, we may see its likeness spring up in other ways in future apps. As had been rumored shortly after the acquisition, reMail is now open source. Its source code now lives at the Google Code and is available for your viewing here. By making reMail open source, Gabor Cselle hopes that those interested in "making email-related apps can use reMail code as a starting point."

reMail may be reIncarnated as it goes open source originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

reMail may be reIncarnated as it goes open source originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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O2 Posts Prices for… UK Video Calls for iPhone?!

Before we once again get our Kevin Rose-colored glasses on and hope beyond hope this is a sign the 4th generation iPhone will support video calling and/or video iChat, we’re going to hunker down and go with O2 making a bit of a mess-up on their new iPhone plan web page (above).

It does say “UK video calls same as voice calls” but we’re just tired for being teased about front-facing cameras and SDK strings, you know?

Also, it’s important to remember that the carriers have no idea what Apple will release for the 4th generation iPhone anyway. Even if they had to test it for video conferencing, Apple would make them wait until they showed it off at a WWDC keynote or something similar because they wouldn’t want the carrier to leak the feature. Anyway, with our luck O2 will just be bringing an app see the video but not send any back… Sigh.

[O2 via FSM via Redmond Pie via 9to5Mac. Phew!]

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Another iPhone video conferencing rumor surfaces

Filed under: Rumors, Video, iPhone

There's been many rumors pointing to the possible inclusion of video conferencing in the next-gen iPhone -- everything from faceplate photos to code embedded in the iPhone SDK itself has set off our rumor radar. This latest rumor from site Redmond Pie tends toward the weaker end of the spectrum as far as evidence goes: UK mobile provider O2 has listed "Video Calls" as a "Key Feature" of the forthcoming iPhone, with pricing for video calling listed as identical to standard phone calls.

Note that third-party sellers regularly advertise features for Apple's products well in advance of their actual release based on a "best guess" approach without any verifiable foreknowledge of the devices -- Best Buy's recent page update listing i7 processors for the upcoming MacBook Pro update is a perfect example -- so this latest update from O2 by no means confirms the presence of video conferencing capabilities in the next iteration of the iPhone. It's merely one more rumor to add to the stack we've built up so far. One thing is certain: given all the rumors that have been swirling around already, which will surely accelerate over the next few months, if the next iPhone doesn't have video conferencing capabilities in it, the internet rage is going to be pretty profound.

Another iPhone video conferencing rumor surfaces originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Jobs Confirms 10 Hour iPad Battery Life… From his iPad

Looks like GCN’s concerns that Apple was overstating iPad battery life in face of IPS display power needs reached Apple CEO Steve Jobs while he was sitting in his chair enjoying his 9.7 magical, revolutionary tablet:

I e-mailed him to say that I didn’t mean to imply that he was lying during his iPad presentation, as several people accused me of in their comments. People make presentations written by marketers all the time that are not 100 percent truthful, and it doesn’t make them liars. I used the normal, publicly available e-mail address for him, not any of the special ways we press folks can sometimes get access. I figured that would be the end of it.

Two hours later:

[...]yes, we are getting 10 hours in 1.5 pounds.

Sent from my iPad

Boom.

‘Course we get to find out for ourselves when the iPad ships on April 3 in the US.

[Via MacRumors]

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