Pricing:

Wi-fi + 3G:

16gb: $629

32gb: $729

64gb: $829

Wi-fi:

16gb $499

32gb $599

64gb $699

Data Pricing Plans on AT&T:

$14.99/month for 250mb

$29.99/month for unlimited

No contract – cancel any time

Availability:

Wi-fi models shipped in 60 days

3G models shipped in 90 days

Ships internationally in June

Channels:

Unknown outside of AAPL retails stores

Other:

Synch apps already purchased from iPod or iPhone onto iPad

.5” thin, 1.5lbs, 9.7” LED IPS display; capacitive multi-touch

10hr battery life while playing videos; 1 month of standby time

1GHz Apple A4 Chip;

Has keyboard dock accessory

AAPL stock up 1.75%

T stock up 2.8%

Raw Notes

Needs to be a device better than a laptop and better than a smartphone at certain tasks

iTunes store built in, YouTube, navigation, movies, tv

Unlock slide just like iPhone

Keyboard comes up

Flick through photos easily

A lot of the same in terms of UI- seems like just on a bigger screen which changes how you interact with the programs (i.e. iTunes, photo album, etc.)

Graphics are really nice on it; apparently the processer is really fast

Full capacitive multitouch

.5” thin, 1.5lbs, 9.7” IPS display

1GHz Apple A4 Chip; 16 gb-64gb flash storage

1 month of standby time, 10 hrs of video playing time

Can run all iPhone apps unmodified out of the box – small screen but you can double pixel to make it bigger (lower graphics). 

Small app on big black screen looks a little funky

iPhone SDK supports writing apps for bigger screen – releasing it today

iPad comes with app store on it

Gameloft and NY Times showing off apps they developed for the iPad – video pops out on NYTimes app.

Mostly pop up menus

Created the iBook store – similar to iTunes

Completely new UI with iWork

Big thing is drop down menus – different than in the past

$10 for pages, $10 for keynote apps, etc

Synchs over USB

Some models with 3G every model has wi-fi

$14.99 per month for 250mb of data; unlimited data for $29.99

AT&T deal with these prices, and free use of T wifi spots

Activate on iPad

No contract – cancel anytime

Int’l deals by June

iPad 3G models unlocked

Use new GSM micro SIMs

Synch apps you have on your own iPhone and iPod

LED screen

Courtesy of iPhoneAppQuotes

Mason County News iPhone Application is live in the App Store.

The Mason County News is located in Mason, TX - approximately 120 miles west/northwest of Austin in the Texas Hill Country. The Mason County News provides local news for Mason, Castell, London and other Mason county communities. Updated weekly.

The Mason County News iPhone application is your link to the latest news and information about Mason County TX.

• Real time updates
• Read articles in landscape or portrait mode.
• You can share articles via email or twitter.
• Articles can be read online - or offline if an internet connection isn't available.
• Application keeps a record of most popular articles for your review.

We've created three new iPhone applications for yourteacher.com and Apple has just approved them and they are now available in the App store.

Each application searches YourTeacher.com's comprehensive library of THOUSANDS of math videos for the iPhone...

Algebra Video Finder

Math Video Finder

Geometry Video Finder

Though we've created several games for clients this is our first released on our own.

Loud Pong  is the first crowd control game for the iPhone.

Loud Pong is filled with retro Pong graphic goodness and a unique control scheme. Players use ambient sound to control the up and down motion of the paddle. Play by yourself or with a group.

Features

Apples approval process for the App store can sometimes seem opaque at best, below are some great articles on why applications are rejected. Plus two lists of apps that have been rejected and why...

• Why iPhone Apps are Rejected
• Avoiding iPhone app rejection from Apple
• iPhone Application Graveyard
• Matt Burris' list of removed iPhone games

At last count there are over 55,000 iPhone applications in the App store (see current detailed stats at 148Apps.biz). You can have the greatest application in the word but you need to make sure people can find it.

Here are some of the steps we take, usually starting several weeks before we submit to the App store, note this is after developing at least a high level marketing plan.

 1. Identify initial target list for posting release news.

 a) Top blogs in the industry specific to your iPhone application (Technorati is a good source for this information)

 b) Top technical news and information blogs and reviewers (both Techmeme and TechCrunch for example will occasionally cover new iPhone applications - especially if the application addresses the interest of a specific editor)

 c) iPhone review and listing sites

appshopper.com/
www.apptism.com/
www.148apps.com/
iphoneapplicationlist.com/
toucharcade.com/
www.apprater.com/
www.appcraver.com/
www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/
iphoneapps.org/
www.nativeiphoneapps.com/
iapplover.com/
sciphoneapps.com/
www.iphoneappstore.us/
iphonetoolbox.com/
macmegasite.com/

 d) See the iPhone Press and Promotion Reference Page at the iPhone App Entrepreneur site as well.

2. We'll cover step two next week...

TechCrunch - a great source for the startup world and new internet applications

Signal vs. Noise - development and design thoughts from 37signals.com - creators of Basecamp and Highrise

Yahoo! User Interface Blog  -  news and articles about developing with Yahoo UI libararies

Smashing Magazine - a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers.

Blog Maverick - Maintained by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

A Smart Bear - a blog about starting a small company - from someone who's been there

Mason County News - cause we like to know what's going on in our own back yard...

Iphone Development Resources

1. Apple  you've got to buy a mac first :)
2. iPhone Dev Center  the place to start
3. iPhone Game Programming Tutorial  great overview of writing a complete game for the iPhone
4. Source Code & Tutorials -
5. cocos2d for iPhone:  A framework for building 2D games for the iPhone and iPod Touch
6. How To Build An iPhone App: A Guide -
7. 11 Ways to Market Your iPhone and iPod Touch App
8. 31 days of iPhone Apps
9. Unity  game development engine for Windows, Mac, and the iPhone
10. Ooolong Engine  C++ game engine for the iPhone
11. iLang Syne: A Guide To iPhone Game Development In 2009
12. Flight control sales stats
13. App Shopper iPhone apps, deals, and discovery
14. Apptism  find and track iPhone Apps

1. Ruby Performance -  (some caveats with this article - please read comments as well)
2. Ruby Performance Testing
3. Securing Rails Apps
4. Testing Rails 
5. Ruby Best Practices
6. Blog on Ruby Best Practices
7. Rails Way - posts from member of the core team  

Here is a list of the online tools we use to run Product7.

1. Quickbooks Online - online accounting, timesheet reporting, invoicing, great reports 
2. Emyth - the process to build the processes - highly recommended
3. Slicehost - the best hosting provider we've found for Ruby on Rails  and Joomla
4. Basecamp - collaborative online project management and task handling
5. Highrise - CRM - fast and light web based contact managment and address book
6. Scout - Site Monitoring - 
7. Five Runs - Ruby on Rails performance profiling
8. Subversion - Our source control system of choice
9. Unfuddle - the system we use to manage and plan large distributed software projects
10. Git- altnerative to subversion
11. Load Runner - for performance testing - 
12. Relic - more performance monitoring tools
13. Pivotal Tracker - another online software development tool
14. Bugzilla -  the mother of all bug reporting and tracking tools