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Mac News- Keaton: AutoCAD returns to the Mac after 16 years, also coming to iOS - via Macworld
September 1st Music Event Roundup (Stu)- First Apple event to be live streamed in about 4 years (video available here)
- 300 Apple retail stores
- > 1 million visitors on some days
- 80,000 One to One sessions a week
- iOS Devices / App Store stats
- 120 million iOS devices shipped
- 230,000 new iOS activations per day
- 250,000+ Apps on the App Store
- 25,000 iPad Apps
- 6.5 billion App downloads
- 200 Apps downloaded a minute
- iOS 4.1 coming to iPhone / iPod Touch next week
- Adds fixes for Bluetooth, Proximity Sensor, iPhone 3G issues
- HDR Photos
- Game Centre
- iOS 4.2 for iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch in November
- Wireless printing
- iOS 4 features for iPad
- AirPlay
- New iPods
- iPod Shuffle
- iPod Nano
- iPod Touch
- iTunes 10
- New interface, hybrid view and questionable icon
- Ping social network for music
- New Apple TV
- Streaming only, no sync
- Renting content only
- Netflix (for US customers)
- $99 price point
<insert have your say about event here /> iOS & iTunes News- iTunes 10 Fallout (Stu):
- Steve Jobs: Facebook had "onerous terms" for Ping - via TUAW
- Steve Jobs: iTunes 10 icon does not suck - via Wired
- Bug in iTunes 10, Automator actions no longer work - via Macworld
- Keaton: iOS Passed Linux to become 3rd most popular browsing platform - via MacRumors
- Bart: h.264 to remain free for web-use for life of license - via BusinessWire
- Keaton: Apple releases XCode 4 Preview 3 for developers - via TUAW
Apple Competitor Watch- Keaton: Samsung debuts the first <sarcasm>major iPad Competitor</sarcasm>, The Galaxy Tab - via CNet News
- Stu: Microsoft: Silverlight will provide richer web experience than HTML5 - via Macworld UK
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