It is a far better thing that I do,
than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have
ever known.
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has had an
exciting 2010. First, of relevance to techies, Apple has now moved from being
the number five (5) computer maker in the world to the number three (3) in the
world behind only Hewlett-Packard and Acer in terms of Global Unit Share.
Apple leapt over Asus, Lenovo,
Toshiba and Dell as stated in the article “iPad pushes Apple
into the top mobile ranks”, published August 2, 2010 9:20 PM PDT by Brooke
Crothers, CNET News - The Circuits Blog ()
and confirmed by the article “Apple:
We're No. 3, We're No. 3!”, published August 3, 2010 10:20am by Eric
Benderoff, Appolocious, Yahoo! News.
Apple also earned US$20 billion
this fourth Quarter of December 2010 as stated in the article “Apple:
More revenue in one quarter than Google will do in a year”, published
October 18, 2010, 1:48pm PDT By Sam Diaz, Between the Lines - ZDNET, beating market expectations for
Microsoft, its main rival. They also and thoroughly trounced Google, who
pundits on Wall Street are betting on garnering US$21.6 billion for ALL of
2010. Clearly, the Apple Cart is loaded with Apples reaped from the Orchard!
Thus another sick leave by Apple
CEO Steve Jobs is nothing to worry about, as it may be merely a sign of his
company’s success and his superstardom being a bit too much to handle as stated
in the article “Apple
CEO Steve Jobs to medical leave again”, published January 17, 2011 6:26 AM
PST by Jonathan E. Skillings and Erica Ogg, CNET
News.
However, as much as the media hawks
are already speculating about succession, as if it Apple CEO Steve Jobs health
issues were not supposed to be private or they are expecting him to, as the
Americans say, kick the bucket, Apple has bigger worries in the form of the
Motorola Xoom.
This is where this blog will
“occur” its media spotlight – or flashlight as in my case – as albeit we wish
for Apple CEO Steve Jobs swift recovery, tit-bit details of his health are not
concern enough that it should cause stock prices to drop as stated in the
article “Apple
share price drops on Jobs health fears”, published Tuesday January 18 2011,
by AFP, Yahoo! News.
This, folks, is the smashingly good
and spanking straight-out-of-the-plastic standard of what Google Android 2.4 aka
Honeycomb can bring to bear against the Apple iPad and the iOS ecosystem in the
Tablet Wars. From my critical blog article
entitled “Motorola
Xoom and Honeycomb - Tablet Evolution in Stormy Weather”, it should be
apparent that aside from packing a barometer and a Dual-Core Tegra Processor,
first for ANY Tablet, it has some SERIOUS hardware specs on this CES (Computer
Electronics Show) 2011 christened device.
This means that speculation as to
the Apple iPad S and its hardware being “two of everything”, software and power
requirements may be spot on as enunciated in my blog
article entitled “Apple
and the iPad 2 - Honeycomb, Chrome and the DragonSlayer”. I sound the chime
of confidence as evidence has now emerged to indicate that this “two of
everything” theme is resplendent in the Apple iPad S’ design – credit to CNET Writer/blogger Erica Ogg. Two (2)
out of two (2) – she is on a roll!
EnGadget
recently posted a report confirming a possible shift by Apple away from
Infineon, the maker of their communication SOC (System on a Chip) chips used in
the Apple iPad and the Apple iPhone to Qualcomm, which is offering Apple a
dual-mode chipset that can decode both GSM (Global System Mobile) and CDMA
(Code Division Multiple Access) as stated in the article “Report: Future iPad,
iPhone to have Qualcomm chips”, published January 14, 2011 5:20 PM PST by
Erica Ogg, CNET News.
Albeit I have no official news to
confirm this (apologies to all the trolls at EnGadget!),
Qualcomm does make Dual-mode 3G and 4G chipsets i.e. chipsets that can
work on 3G standards such as HSDPA+ (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) and LTE
(Long Term Evolution) a 4G Standard as stated in the article “Qualcomm readies
3G/4G mobile chipsets”, published November 12, 2009 4:07 PM PST by
Marguerite Reardon, CNET News - Signal
Strength.
Please note this is Dual-mode for
GSMA (Global System Mobile Alliance) standards, as personally I was looking for
support for WiMaX 4G Mobile
(IEEE 802.16d, e) as well. But as these chips were in production since 2009 and
now integrated on the circuit boards of smartphones by handset makes such as
Huawei Technologies, LG Electronics Novatel Wireless, Sierra Wireless, and ZTE
Corp of china, Apple joining the party is not surprising, as they do have a
habit of signing on to technologies that are proven over time.
Hopefully, these rumours all so
well documented on my blog will
be more than a flash in a pan mirroring the wishes and desire of the future, as
another innovation popping up at CES 2011 and worth noting, is the absence of
the Home Button on Tablets as stated in the article “Tablet
makers phasing out the ‘home key’”, published Thursday January 13, 2011
9:34 am ET By Ben Patterson, Yahoo! News.
But this is definitely in keeping
with the Apple iPad and Apple iPhone being made world ready as speculated by
CNET Writer/blogger Erica Ogg in her previous article on the subject entitled “iPad 2.0: New
Design, manufacturing process?”, published November 19, 2010 11:17 AM PST
by Erica Ogg, CNET News - Circuit Breaker and
confirmed by the article Report
says Apple iPad 2 to have 2 Cameras, USB port”, published Friday November
26, 2010 11:43 am ET by Dan Nystedt, Yahoo!
News.
February launch of the Apple iPad S
as speculated in the article “Report: iPad 2 to
ship next February”, published , Tuesday December 7, 2010 by Steven
Musil, Apple - CNET News, six hundred
thousand (600,000) of the White Unicorn 2 strong, is just too far away……
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