Apple Has Sold 1 Million iPads

Apple Has Sold 1 Million iPads

Update: Apple has officially confirmed it has sold 1 million iPads. The company sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, April 30, just 28 days after the device’s release. More than 12 million apps from the App Store and 1.5 million e-books have been downloaded from the new iBookstore.

 

“One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”

So, now that the iPad 3G is finally available, what everyone wants to know is: How well is this thing selling?

According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, it’s selling very well — pretty much as well as the Wi-Fi only iPad, in fact. About 300,000 3G iPads were sold on launch weekend.

Munster surveyed 50 Apple stores to arrive at this number. He concluded that the iPad 3G is essentially sold out, as only one store in 50 didn’t sell all of the iPads it had in stock by Sunday. Munster estimates that the overall number of iPads sold is over 1 million, and expects overall sales in 2010 will reach 4.3 million.

If Apple indeed sold 1 million iPads, we will probably hear it from Apple very soon — the company likes to brag about big numbers. On the other hand, Munster was wrong before, so we should probably take his estimates with a grain of salt.

via mashable.com

 

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Apple telling developers to ready big-screen apps (Updated)

Apple has told certain iPhone developers to prepare applications for a demo on a screen with a higher resolution than the iPhone and iPod touch, according to a new report. Citing a source inside the mobile industry, Silicon Valley Insider reports that Apple plans to show off the new device, most likely the long-rumored tablet, in January. “They’ve told select developers that as long as they build their apps to support full screen resolution—rather than a fixed 320x480—their apps should run just fine,” said the source. The report notes that the device will not go on sale in January, but could launch as soon as March.

Update: The Financial Times is reporting that Apple has scheduled a special press event for January 26, to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

via ilounge.com

Rumors anyone? Apple Tablet?

Remove unwanted text shadows in iWork programs | Mac OS X | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld

by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com

If you use the iWork applications, or other programs that use their own font styling features and the system-wide Fonts panel, here’s a little potential “gotcha” that may sneak up on you some day. Assume you’ve been doing work with text, including using the floating Fonts dialog (Format -> Font -> Show Fonts, or Command-T, in iWork programs). At some point, you add some text, and notice it has an unwanted shadow—or maybe you notice that your text actually has a double-shadow, something like this:

(I’ve made the double-shadow clear here for purposes of demonstration, but the reality is that they may be more subtle—especially if both shadows are on the same side of the letters.)

To remove the shadows, you open the Inspector panel, select the Graphic tab, and (if you’re seeing one shadow) find that the Shadow box isn’t checked. (If you’re seeing two shadows, it will be checked, but unchecking it removes only one shadow.) So where’s the extra shadow coming from?

The culprit is the Fonts panel, which has its own, separate shadow controls: somehow, the shadow on the Fonts panel has also be enabled. Confusingly, you can’t actually see these controls in the default Fonts panel; it’s too narrow.

(This begs the question of how those shadows get set when you can’t see the buttons in the first place. I don’t know the answer to that, but I do know it happens, based on the number of times I’ve seen this come up in forums and via e-mail.)

If you expand the panel to the right, though, you’ll see the shadow setting buttons appear.

The button on the left turns the shadows on or off; the others control (from left to right) opacity, blur, offset, and angle.

To remove the extra shadow, click the leftmost box to disable text shadows completely. iWork’s shadow feature provides the same settings for opacity, blur, offset and direction, so you don’t give anything up by using the built-in shadow features instead of those on the fonts panel.

This same fix should work in any other program where you see unwanted or double shadows, and that use both their own font styling features along with the system-wide Fonts panel.

via macworld.com

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According to Wikipedia, the last naturally occurring incident of smallpox (Variola minor) happened on this date in 1977:

By the end of 1975, smallpox persisted only in the Horn of Africa. Conditions were very difficult in Ethiopia and Somalia, where there were few roads. Civil war, famine, and refugees made the task even more difficult. An intensive surveillance and containment and vaccination program was undertaken in early and mid-1977. The last naturally occurring case of indigenous smallpox (Variola minor) was diagnosed in Ali Maow Maalin, a hospital cook in Merca, Somalia, on 26 October 1977.

smallpox_goneIn the 20th century, smallpox is estimated to have killed hundreds of millions of people. Hundreds of millions. Imagine the United States — the entire country, from the Pacific to the Atlantic — empty, devoid of people, dead. Smallpox wiped out that many people with room to spare.

And yet, today, it’s gone.

Why do you think that is? Homeopathy? Detoxification? Thinking good thoughts?

Nope. Vaccinations. A global campaign was undertaken in 1950, and within 30 years smallpox was struck from the face of the Earth.

Hey Jenny McCarthy, Meryl Dorey, and all you antivaxxers and your ilk: got a response to this? Still want to claim vaccines don’t work? Still want to stop people from getting them? Do you want to see this happen to children all over the planet again (WARNING – SERIOUSLY! -VERY DISTURBING IMAGE). Because if you are successful in your campaign to stop vaccinations, that’s what we’ll be facing again.

Vaccines are perhaps the single greatest triumph of modern medicine. Yet a vocal minority willing to trash facts, spin the truth, and generally spout misinformation is putting not only themselves but you, me, and everyone at risk.

Happy anniversary, smallpox, gone these past 32 years. And may I add, good damn riddance. May reason, rationality, and science-based medicine do the same for every other threat to the health and well being of the human race as well.

Tip o’ the syringe to Reddit.

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