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Apple Is Attracting New Mac And iPhone Users By the Millions | Cult of Mac

Apple Is Attracting New Mac And iPhone Users By the Millions

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4:38 pm, April 20th, 2010, Leander Kahney

Apple is sweeping up PC switchers and new iPhone users by the millions.

Take the 8.75 million iPhones Apple sold in the March quarter. Add them to the 42.4 million sold at the end of the last quarter. That makes 51.15 million iPhones sold to date. That’s a lot of iPhone users.

Also consider that half of the Macs sold in the quarter from Apple stores were to people who have never owned a Mac.

The March quarter was Apple’s best ever for iPhone sales, racking up more than double the number of units sold in the same quarter last year. Mac unit sales are up 33 percent. Apple is projecting similar numbers for the next quarter.

And there’s no end in sight. On the analyst conference call right now, Apple COO Tim Cook is talking about increased retail distribution points (like Radio Shack) and the massive growth opportunities in China. And all this during a recession.

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you go Steve

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Instant Surveys with Filemaker and Google Docs

Filemaker 11 is awesome and one of the best ways to learn advanced techniques such as web survey with Google Docs to instant charting is Filemaker Magazine dot come such as their latest article on graphing magic.
http://www.filemakermagazine.com/videos/survey-graphing-magic.html
Simply amazing. Ask me about how to do your survey.

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Winscape: Apple-powered fake windows

Winscape: Apple-powered fake windows

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Apr 16th 2010 at 10:00PM

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a technology that’s arrived before its time, I think. Winscape is a set of two plasma televisions set up behind window panes, and hooked up to a Mac Pro. The Pro is running the custom Winscape software, which controls the “view” out of the windows according to a sensor (they show it in the video above attached to a baby, and it actually looks really large and pretty unwieldy). So as the sensor moves around the room, the view changes, as if you were moving angles while looking out of the windows to get a different view.

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link from Tom Bacon DVMUG

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iPad DRM endangers our rights | DefectiveByDesign.org

Pad DRM endangers our rights

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Mr. Jobs,

DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to disable features, block competing products (especially free software) censor news, and even delete books, videos, or news stories from users’ computers without notice– using the device’s “always on” network connection.

This past year, we have seen how human rights and democracy protestors can have the technology they use turned against them. By making a computer where every application is under total, centralized control, Apple is endangering freedom to increase profits.

Apple can say they will not abuse this power, but their record of App Store rejections and removals gives us no reason to trust them. The iPad’s unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for media distribution. We demand that Apple remove all DRM from its devices.

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We Want our iPad rights NOW

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MacBook Pros UPDATED!!! — Finally | Cult of Mac

MacBook Pros UPDATED!!! — Finally

7:45 am, April 13th, 2010, Leigh McMullen

As we reported eariler the Apple Store was closed this morning when I went for my ‘O-Dark-Thirty’ run, and as anticipated, we’ve got new i5 and i7 Macbook Pros to enjoy. I will be picking one up today if possible and will give a full rundown later in the week for an in-depth hands on.

Pricing looks great too, with $200 off the 17″ model. The 17″ configured as I’d buy it with an i7, is just $200 more (or in other words back to the original pricing).

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Better & faster always appreciated

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