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iTunes Festival Noel Gallagher

iTunes Festival 2012 : Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Now Streaming on Apple TV

It’s been a busy and somewhat exhausting day so why not take some time out to listen to the sounds of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds now streaming via the iTunes festival app on your Apple TV.  Watching it now via Apple TV it’s a cracking gig even if everyone in the crowd seems intent on heckling..  Good job Noel’s a northern lad and knows how to give as good as he gets.  This and other gigs are Free as part of the iTunes festival 2012

iTunes Festival Noel Gallagher iTunes Festival 2012 : Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds Now Streaming on Apple TV

The New iPhone 5

Apple : iPhone 5 Specification and Announcement Details.

The New iPhone 5 Apple : iPhone 5 Specification and Announcement Details.

Well if you missed all the news that Apple let slip on their website, the iPhone 5 is now officially with us.  It’s got everything the 4S has — but thinner, lighter, better, and smaller.  This article is scattered to say the least so bear with me whilst I try to collate the masses of information from the Apple 2012 Announcement.

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Is there really a need for an iPad mini? Are 7″ tablets over-rated?

ipad mini editorial Is there really a need for an iPad mini? Are 7 tablets over rated?

After reading “David Chartier wonders why the 7-inch product category even exists” it got me to thinking about a few iPad things.

With the original iPad being released in 2010, why is it now “obvious” that the tablet segment needs a smaller form factor? 2 long years have passed since Apple undoubtably created something that shook the market up. Ok so Apple doesn’t create new products but they create desire, taking parts and processes from existing lines and bringing them together in a fashions that had yet to be realised but seem obvious when done so.  At the very least you can argue that Apple creates products that define a generation or at least inspire companies to copy their lead.

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Could the iPad mini have the iPad 2 cpu and iPhone 3gs Screen?

…this suggests that the iPad Mini is, effectively, an iPad 2: an A5 with 512 MB of RAM and enough GPU power to drive the display..

An interesting little snippet here from Marco.org coming up with an interesting theory.  Tim Cook’s well known for making the most of supply chain and sending hardware down the chain. After the iPad 2 cpu got a shrinking down to 32nm from 45nm it’s seems only logical to throw this into the iPad mini driving a smaller screen.

Speaking of the screen, I’m not sure I could go back to a 3gs resolution screen and only running at 1024 * 768 even if it’s hitting 132ppi.  Consider that to the Nexus 7 display 1,280 by 800 pixels, or 216 pixels per inch (ppi).

For Apple to release a product that’s in anyway inferiror into the 7″ ish tablet market would be a bad move.

iTunes in the Cloud UK

Apple rolls out iTunes movies in the Cloud to UK, Australia, Canada, more

In allowing users to redownload any film they have purchased through their UK iTunes account, Apple is giving customers a way to easily track and retrieve previously purchased content. This is especially helpful for users with smaller hard drives in their MacBooks and iOS devices. Now they don’t have to back up and store all the large media purchases they made. When finished watching a film, the user can just delete it and the redownload it again when necessary.

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