iPhone OS 4

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Yesterday, Apple announced the new OS 4 for iPhone (summer) and iPad (fall).
There are over 100 new features.
The big news is multi-tasking.
The top 7 of 100 iPhone OS 4 items include …
– Background Audio
– Voice Over IP
– Background Location
– Push Notifications
– Local Notifications
– Task Completion
Here are some interesting figures that put this all in a larger perspective.
– Apple is the largest mobile devices company in the world.
– 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies use the iPhone.
– 50 million iPhones sold to date. Add in the iTouch and it’s 85 million iPhones and iPod touches.
– iPhone is 64% of mobile browser usage. Everything else added together is half of the iPhone.
– 450K iPads sold to date.
– 185 K Apps in the Apple App Store now.
– 3500 iPad Apps now available.
– 1,000,000 Apps downloaded on first day of iPad.
– Over 600K downloads of iBooks.
– iAd is in the iPhone OS itself. 60% of revenue goes to the developer.
Learn more at Apple.
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Review the live coverage of the announcement at AppleInsider.
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Check out my latest article on The Huffington Post.
36 Reasons To Have A Smart Phone Camera Everywhere You Go

Photography's Changed – Again

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Here’s an excerpt from my first post on Huffington Post.
“Photography’s constant move towards ease, speed, economy, and ubiquity continues today and it has recently reached a new critical apex.
In the first decade of the 21st century, Apple released the iPhone (2007) and a host of independent applications followed, designed to preview, make, process, enhance, and distribute photographs in seconds. Photography just got easier, faster, less expensive, and more ubiquitious …
When did you discover you can do this?
5-15 seconds     Make and save image
15-30 seconds  Process an image
15-30 seconds  Comment on an image and transmit it to others
15-30 seconds  Find other people’s images
15-30 seconds Comment on other people’s images or put them to other uses
In about a minute you can make, process, comment on, and distribute an image. It can take you a similar amount of time to do the same with someone else’s image.
If you haven’t done it yet, try it now. I just did. Doing this will change the way you experience and think about photography …”
Read the full post here.
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My New Column on Huffington Post

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I’ve started writing for the Huffington Post. Initially, I’ll be focussing on cell phone photography. It is a game changer. Did you know people win Pulitzer prizes and sell fine art prints with cell phone photographs? But they did this with traditional cameras too. What excites me most about cell phone photography are the many different things you can do with cell phone photographs – get a quick diagnosis, find out where you are, see someplace you want to visit before you get there, find the nearest store for items, compare prices, make 3D immersive images, help enrich 3D models on Google maps … the list goes on and on and keeps expanding everyday. Cell phone photography has really gotten my head thinking in new exciting ways! I’ll share my insights on Huffington Post.
The first is live now. More are scheduled for this week. Stay tuned!
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