Thursday, March 3, 2011

iPad 2: Steve Jobs takes surprising at Apple event on

He has a flair for the big show: Steve Jobs is a surprise at the presentation of the new iPad 2 occurred - the audience celebrated him with standing ovations. Watch what happens in the live ticker. He makes himself out Steve Jobs iPad through the presentation of the new. Lastly, there had been rumors about the health of the company president.

When he enters by two minutes nach zehn clock (local time) the stage, it pulls the audience applauding from the seats. "We have some time to work on this product and I would not miss this moment of simple," says Jobs. But first a little review: "2010 was the year of the iPad," says Jobs, and list them: 15 million units were sold in the first year, Apple holds 90 percent market share for tablet computers.


65 000 Apps for the iPad. Then he pulls her through the competition, which only now, a year later, starts with competing offers - "perhaps with 100 apps, because we are generous - and, according to Jobs did not reveal opportunities. That means new iPad, as had been suspected, iPad second According to Jobs, it is a completely new design.

The new tablet has a dual-core processor, up to nine times faster graphics, installed two cameras. has also done something on the form itself: The iPad 2 is thinner by a third, measures less than one centimeter. And it is (a little) easier: 590 than 630 grams Apple sold 15 million in 2010 iPads When Apple a year ago, in late January 2010, which introduced iPad, skeptical analysts predicted one million sold units in the first year, the most optimistic estimates were 10 million sales.

In fact, Apple has the BMO Capital Markets, according to analysts at 16 million tablets sold - and dominates the market, it has created on its own. The competition reacted very late: not until early February 2011, Google introduced a new version of its operating system Android. Android 3.0, code-named Honeycomb (Honeycomb) is tailored to the requirements of the Tablet PC has caught up in almost all areas.

Competition relies on Google's Android system tablet tablet with 3 One of the first Android 3.0 is the Xoom by Motorola. In the United States, it is already available in Germany, it will be delivered in April and will cost 700 €. The first test could convince the Xoom well. However, Google App Store - the so-called Android Market - filled is far from being as good as the Apple offering.

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