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Tim Cook wants to discuss exciting news! iPad 3!

Apple CEO Tim Cook seems to be eager to discuss about something exciting at Apple's town hall tomorrow at 10 AM Cupertino time. Tim Cook sent out an email to employees congratulating them for the their success in 2012 Q1 which is the highest, revenue wise in Apple's history.

The next part of the email is what is truely exciting as consumers. Tim plans to discuss 'exciting news for Apple.' He wishes his employees to be there for the meeting either in person or through AppleWeb portal. This does mean that it's going to be more than just discussing new numbers in revenue. These type of emails were previously sent by former CEO, Steve Jobs usually to discuss news about their major products, iPhones and iPads.

The following letter by Tim Cook describes the situation well-


Team,


Thanks to everyone’s hard work, we’re off to a great start in 2012. Last week in New York we launched a groundbreaking initiative for education with iBooks textbooks, and today we reported the strongest quarter in Apple’s history.Please join me tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in Town Hall. We’ll review our record-setting results and discuss some exciting new things going on at Apple.The meeting will be broadcast live to many sites in Cupertino and other Apple locations. Please check AppleWeb for details.


Tim

iPad education targets High Schools. Has Apple made the right decision???

Apple, in it's education event, stressed the importance of education and how Apple helps in making it better. One of the small announcements were of iTunes U having it's own individual app now.
The major announcement was of 'Textbooks for the iPad'. Apple believes that their new interactive textbooks that are better than traditional paper textbooks and I would agree in the case that the iPad is extremely light weight and well it doesn't wear out like a normal book would. The major attraction of the interactive textbooks is the interactive part which stresses on videos and 3D models rather the static 2D pictures found in paper books.
These are priced below $15 which might be great instead of buying books for $60-$100. But the chances of a high school student getting an iPad is less likely to happen than that of a college student. Apple in it's presentation aimed totally at high school kids whereas I believe that their aim should have been more towards showing it's use in colleges. As the college fees are already high, adding an iPad to the materials is more imaginable than a high school school student getting a $500 iPad.
Even if the school lends the iPads to their students for 4 years, there are chances of the school not allowing the kid to take the iPad back home which makes it meaningless or if they do take it home there is a high risk of damage.
Apple's aim can result in success only if Apple can sell a couple more billion iPads.

RIM buyout, will Samsung buy???

The recent rumours of RIM, owners of BlackBerry, thinking about selling the whole company or a part of it as a buyout has fetched a bit of attention. The latest buzz was about BRG reporting that RIM had taken there offer to Samsung which sounded tempting to many people as it would have certainly led to BBM on TouchWiz., but sadly it isn't happening Samsung and Blackberry both claim that there was no such meeting between them. Probably they don't want to tell us, the public about the failed meeting. The only reason I see for Samsung to deny the deal would be the fact that RIM is pricing the buyout at $12-15 billion which is way more than their net worth of $8 billion.
Though Samung didn't buy RIM, someone would and any operating system let it be Android, iOS or Windows, would benefit if they can port BB services to there system. If one company gets it, others will soon follow.

What to expect from CES???

The annual Consumer Electronic Show is about to kick off in Vegas and a 150,000 people are ready for it, but why this hype??? Is it for quad-core phones, for Smart 3D TVs or those unique tech stuff that one can only see at the CES???
To be frank, Android is developing faster than what consumers can cope up. There is a better phone every other week that too at the same price point. CES is usually an early pouring of all that we should expect the year round and this year the point of discussion is all about quad-core mobile devices that include phones and tablets.
In terms of Smart 3D TVs, Google TV wasn't much of a success so might expect some updated version of it or probably just proprietary software on TVs from manufacturers like Samsung, Sony and LG.
Every now then you find small companies showing off some unique tech stuff that are awesome. That can range from iPhone accessories to big giant camera equipment but these are somewhat the true beauty of the show as they are the only things that happens only in CES and no other time of the year.
So tech enthusiasts have to decide what to spend there time on in this event.

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HP redefines WebOS' future

The HP WebOS saga still continues and gets a huge twist to it, they seem to throw their million dollar investment into the open source lands... They suppose that their OS would flourish in between those developers who are searching for an Android alternative. But recent decisions have proved that HP is not at all patient, so would they wait for those long years ahead that WebOS needs to compete with Android. Without patience they'll just kill the whole project even before it flourishes to become the next TouchPad in 2013, as some sources reported. All these new changes are being supervised by the new CEO and would probably lead to a bright future or maybe the death of HP.