Today's the day that many avid iPad fans have been waiting for, and scores of consumers turned out for the overnight queue preceding the worldwide launch this morning.
After many months of speculation, Apple finally confirmed last Wednesday that the new iPad would be the company's first venture into the world of 4G LTE.
If you were engrossed by last week's Apple announcements, you may have missed the fact that the Android Market was renamed to the Google Play Store. The Big G felt the move would better reflect the content available, which now includes books, movies, music and apps.
The nine day wait which Apple imposed upon us at the media event in San Francisco is finally over, with buyers all over the world taking deliveries of their iPad pre-orders, as well as Apple Stores serving customer after customer as the new iPad flies off the shelves. We will need to wait a while until the sales numbers are released so we can see just how successful the new iPad is in the early stages of availability, but all experts predict that the third-generation iPad will break all records.
In amongst all the talk of new iPads and Samsung Galaxy S III's, another product trending in the blogsosphere of late is Apple's MacBook range.
It used to be the Android Market, and then Google decided to work some internal magic on it and came up with the amazing idea of joining all forms of media together into one convenient cloud-based hub and called it Google Play. Android Market, Google Play, whatever you want to call it doesn't really matter as it is essentially the same thing as it always has been and still contains all of the app related goodness which Android has to offer.
On a day that will undoubtedly be dominated by those keenest of early-adopters, the iPhone Dev-Team has assessed the jailbreaking prospects of the third-gen iPad, and concluded that the mountain may not be that steep to scale.
It is becoming increasingly common that iPhone and iPad owners who use the App Store on a regular basis may have more than one Apple iTunes account through which they purchase and download apps. This could be for a number of reasons including holding separate accounts after emigrating to a new country, holding different IDs for the purchase of different accounts or merely just because it's a free world and people can do whatever they wish.
The gadget loving world is currently suffering from a dire case of we need the new iPad syndrome, and will only be cured when the doors finally open and pre-orders finally start to hit our floor mats. For most of the countries around the world that are set to get the new iPad on the first launch day, it is only a few hours to wait until we can hand over our plastic friends to the good people at Apple and let them charge away. However, if you happen to be Australian, then the chances are you may already have collected the new iPad and are currently salivating over the beautiful Retina display.
Although some game vendors have been slow to adapt to mobile/web-based gaming, Electronic Arts - known commonly as simply EA - has been extremely busy in its quest to stay relevant in a market as fiercely-contested as it has ever been.
