
How useful is an iPad?
This is no plasticky toy - it's solid, sleek and slick, yet also very thin. And the screen looks lovely.
This is no plasticky toy - it's solid, sleek and slick, yet also very thin. And the screen looks lovely.
The whole iPhone 4 launch in New Zealand has descended into a surreal mix of blame and outright confusion.
You can browse the web, send emails, listen to music and watch films but the iPad is a powerful computer. What else can you do with it?
Apple haters might take pleasure in the fact that it's costing the company about NZ$244 million to give out thousands of iPhone buyers free bumper cases.
Have you heard? iPhone 4 has a reception issue when you hold the phone a certain way.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apologised to iPhone 4 buyers about its reception issues and offered free cases to help rectify the problem.
Macs are easy to use, so everyone says, and indeed, that's how I found them when a mate introduced me to them back at the beginning of 1988.
It's emerged that a senior engineer and antenna expert at Apple had told management last year that the iPhone 4's design may cause reception problems.
Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.
There's always a backlash that gets picked up by the legions of Apple haters who gleefully spread negative stories far and wide, writes Mark Webster.
'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.
CreativeTech is an Apple-centric conference concept, and the very first one is taking place in September.
Since it launched its first multi-zone network music system way back in 2004, Sonos has pretty much set the benchmark.
Apple's mobile operating system, iOS4, is now available through iTunes for iPhone and iPod Touch - iPad users will have to wait.
High-def video shooting - and even editing - can be done on Apple's latest iPhone.
How much will the iPad cost in New Zealand? Still no idea, but it might pay to butter up the bank manager now.
Bentley's stunning new Mulsanne will cost well-heeled Kiwis in the "low $600,000s" range when it goes on sale here.
The iPad doesn't come with instructions - and it's not the only gadget to do so. Are we losing our curiosity about how technology works?
It's not easy becoming an Apple Reseller in New Zealand, writes Mark Webster.