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There are absolutely no news whatsoever today.
P.S. According to an Apple employee who accompanied Tim Cook to Foxconn China factory but is not in any of the pictures:
If you are still calling the next iPhone with the name “iPhone 5” then you are such a fool! It is not “iPhone LTE” either. It will be called “iPhone 4G LTE USA edition” in the US. Outside the US it’ll be called “iPhone Ultra-Fast network non-USA edition”.
Seriously, it is not “iPhone 5”.
I noticed the Square Card Reader app version 2.2.6 has a UI glitch. It goes back to normal after I deleted the app state.
PayPal Here™ charges 2.7% per transaction, 0.05% less than Square. Paypal also touting same day funds availability using PayPal merchant debit card and live customer support. PayPal Here™ works with Android and iOS.
UPDATE:
PayPal Here™ takes Discover unlike Square and the future.
According to The Verge, PayPal Here™ doesn’t have iPad optimized app yet as opposed to the newly released Square Register.
There are a lot of people who had been burned by PayPal and will not touch PayPal Here™ with a ten-foot pole.
Disclaimer: We use Square.
It seems like a joke, but there are several pundits who are insinuating that Apple is on the road to ruin because it is not iPad 3 or iPad HD. The sad part is that these pundits are getting paid to write such nonsense. It is the same situation when Apple opted to use the moniker iPhone 4S instead of the much expected iPhone 5.
It is funny how these same pundits did not criticize the ridiculous naming system from other phone makers.
There is no need give these over-paid logic-impaired some page hit, thus I opted not to link to them. It is pretty easy to search for them.
Has everyone forgotten that the iPhone has always been simply called “iPhone”?
Marketing-wise, there are:
Of all the 5 generations of iPhone, every single one of them has simply “iPhone” printed on the back. No “iPhone 3G”, “iPhone 3GS”, “iPhone 4” or “iPhone 4S”. Apple sees iPhone and iPad as a long term business. It doesn’t feel right to have some numbers attached to a product name. “iPhone 12” looks and sounds ugly. Historically Apple has been naming its product with a single name with some added descriptions. Of course there are exceptions to the rules such as PowerBook G4. The iMac bears the same name since its first introduction back in 1998. It went through several redesigns but still retains the same name. Apple TV is another example. Totally different product between the first and the second generation but carry the same name.
The next iPhone may have the nickname iPhone LTE or even iPhone 4G LTE to differentiate its new feature. When it’s actually released, one name will be printed on the back: iPhone.
Apple is doing away with the numbering on iPad, much sooner than the iPhone. “The new iPad” as Apple would call it at today’s event just like it is introduced at Apple’s home page. A few days ago I wrote:
Apple is that kind of company who would not call the next iPad by the name iPad 3.
My source always said “the next iPad” instead of the much-assumed moniker “iPad 3”. I then knew that Apple will drop the numbering on the iPad and iPhone. I had similar conversation regarding the next iPhone. Many kept asking me about “iPhone 5” which is actually iPhone 4S. I told them that there will be no iPhone with “iPhone 5” moniker. I firmly believed that the next iPhone will simply be called “iPhone”.
One thing I got wrong on today’s event, is the usage of “Retina Display” term. Back in December 2011, I truly believe that Apple would not call the new iPad display a Retina Display. Then again, my source never once used the term “Retina Display” in lieu of high resolution display.
Come Fall 2012, I will find out if I was fed the correct information on the next iPhone; maybe Apple will simply market it as “The new iPhone”.
