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This is My Next has a sco op that the next version of the Android& nbsp;OSmight be called "Jelly Bean." This is& nbsp;in line with Google's habit ofalphabetically& nbsp;naming its Android firmware
updates after desserts orsugary snacks. The site doesn't know what the version n umber is,however--indeed, no one knows the Ic e Cream Sandwich version numbereither.
According to This is
buy canada goose online My Next's source, some of the more intriguing features for Ice CreamSandwich may
be postponed to Jelly Bean, which sounds like some featuresmight not be ready yet for Ice Cream Sandwich's October release date.This is all rampant speculation, of course, and
we're sure to get moredetails once the first Ice Cream Sandwich phones debut later this year.
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continuing to sell the iPhone 4 and the 3GS. The company has along history of continuing to offer last year's model, but the 3GS isnow being offered free of charge. It's the
first time Apple's ever donethat. Sure you could get older iPhones for about the price of one monthof smartphone service, but this is the first time it's been offered withno
cost up front, just a carrier contract. Apple also added an evenhigher tier $399
version of the iPhone with more storage. That's thesame price as the original
iPhone after its
controversial price cut butl ikely with a better margin than the othe r two 4S configurati.
I n other words, instead of three choices, ;there are now five. Thosechanges to the ;product lineup are something I'd expect to&n bsp;have adramatic effect on sales, especially&nbs p;given
that Apple has extended theiPhone onto new carriers, including&nb sp;Sprint in the U.S. and KDDI inJapan.
Furthermore, this isn't new& nbsp;behavior from Apple. The company does no tradically change its computers every year. A s we've seen with theunibody
cheap north face jackets MacBook Pro and iMac, it's worked out pretty well to tweak some things,add a new port and make adjustments to carry a product through
itslifetime, eventually working towards a major overhaul.
The difference in this case is that the phone world is moving quite abit faster, with competitors pushing out new models every few months,running operating systems made by other
companies. That affords certainluxuries, like not having to wait for an OS update to sync up beforereleasing a new model. With the iPhone and its other iOS products,Apple's
banking on the fact that users will come to invest in thatsystem by tying in its media stores, app library and the upcomingiMessage platform.
Coming back to disappointment though, worth remembering is the unveilingof the iPad 2 earlier this year. There were rumors abound about Applepacking in a Retina Display, adding
redesign of the original iPad that added cameras to the outside,and a speed boost inside. Sound familiar? In the end it didn't reallymatter. Buyers still snatched them up,
besting sales of the firstgeneration device handily. Would anyone want to mess with that formula?Apple certainly doesn't seem to want to, not then and not now.
