Amongst other announcements, Jobs also announced the opening of the world’s largest Apple store in London. This retail store located very centrally at Covent Garden has been creating waves amongst fanboys and even non Apple fans. It certainly did make it to the news headlines. I made a visit myself this weekend, and so here are a few pictures of the World’s largest Apple store – Covent Garden, London.

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The interior walls are very fortress-esque. Well, that is what you expect from Piezza, don’t you?

It’s just a whole fortress of Macs, Macbooks, iPods, iPads and iPhones and also massive Telly on displays.

The stairs are trademark Apple. Just beautiful! I want one.

What is most awesome about this store is that there are numerous Apple based workshops being held throughout the week. For the entire list of workshops, please visit Covent Garden Store Website.

Busy Saturday afternoon at the Apple store, innit!

And all of this, just 5 seconds away from the famous London Covent Garden buskers performing area.

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This is an awesome online search tool where you can search for wallpapers based on keywords, colours and tags.

For the totally confused ones, you can go for the Random button.

Also, you can check out the Global Toplist to know which ones are ruling other desktops.

One of the best features I found is the wordpress style Tag Cloud which comes is really handy.

The website says, it has so far 26,592 registered users and more than half a million images. That should definitely keep you busy.

Here is the link [ Wallbase ]

Well, it is not a full fledged desktop, but if you are looking for the basic functionalities of a desktop, you get pretty much everything out of the Web version in Schmedley [ visit the link here].

So, there is Weather, Search, RSS, Facebook, Friendfeed, Maps, Stocks, Amazon, Sticky Notes, Bookmarks, Twitter, YouTube and even E-Mail. Everything is configurable in the form of the snazzy widgets as you can see. All you need to do is Register with them. As the header shows, it is in Gamma phase, and I hope the first roll-out will be out soon.

The Movies tab show coming attractions and movie showtimes. The look of your homepage can be customised and the Mac dock at the bottom is very smooth.

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The list of the Professionals can be found here [ Top 10 Tools lists ]

The following embedded presentation enlists all the awesome tools that made it to the Top 100 in descending order.

So according to the list, Twitter comes at the top, followed by popular sites such as Delicious, YouTube, Google Reader, Google Docs, WordPress, Google Search etc making it to the Top 10. Quite surprisingly, Open Source sound editor – Aduacity is ahead of resources such as Wikipedia, Blogger, Skype and Flickr.

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But just because it is so cool to unbox your new gadgets, (blogs like Gizmodo and Engadget have done zillions of such posts), I decided to do the same when my box arrived last evening. So just enjoy the pics below.

The Box is so bigger than the actual Tablet.

*****More pics after the Jump*****

Lotsa Air Bags. Just in case it needed water landing.

There it is! My Trust Tablet TB-7300

Got a bit carried away. Damn Meerkats. So funny!

I know, lotsa booze. No one’s paying any attention now.

It is indeed widescreen.

Covered in Plastic…It’s fantastic!

Final level of unboxing.

Unboxing done.!!

Front-View -ish!

Sexy side-view!!

The digital pen..is mightier than the …whatever!!

Morgan Stanley’s report ” How Teenagers Consume Media ” talks about the impact, reach and relevance of different forms of media on the target section of the population – the teens. The importance of this paper is the very fact that today’s teenagers will be evolving into tomorrow’s workforce and the ones who will be shaping tomorrow’s consumer market. This in itself means that the behaviour of the teenagers and their reaction towards media cannot be overlooked.

However, the report is written by a teenager, 15 year old Matthew Robson. The report reflects how a normal teenager perceives media of the current world spanning across traditional media like TV, radio and print, to new-age media like social networking websites, cellphones, game consoles etc. Although the discussion provided in the report does reflect teenage behaviour in a lot of sections, it has its shortcomings.

The basic problem with the report is that it is not a wide study on teenage behaviour and hence, market research figures are not reflected at all. Rather, the behaviours noted and reflected in this report are a biased sampling of the close friends and family of the writer. This certainly would not entirely represent the true behaviour of teenagers. Besides, the facts stated in the report should be quite obvious to market researchers who deal with actual facts and figures and carry out surveys based on age-groups or regions or income groups. The footnote of the report introduction states: While these trends will not necessarily surprise, their influence on TMT stocks cannot be underestimated. Now, if it takes a 15 year old for market researchers to realise such trends, I believe, we can see a lot more positions being made redundant.

Re-Analysing the Media analysis.
Radio: The popularity of traditional Radio or FM is still relevant inspite of internet radio stations and sites like Last.FM. The peak periods of radio listening are early morning – more so as a wake-up alarm, as a baathroom accomplice etc, in the car or bus to work, and in the evening on the way back home. Distribution of radio over FM transmitters have been reduced, and portable media devices such as a mobile phone or PMPs are where radio is being listened to. And in a country where Radio DJ are national celebrities and have shows running on National TV, can we discard the popularity of traditional radio?

Television: In the UK, due to services such as BBC iPlayer, Sky Plus and Virgin Record, and similar services offered by ITV, Channel 4 etc, prime-time is quite non-existent. BBC has no system of advertising based revenue. Whereas Channels like ITV and Channel 4 are freeview channels and completely rely on advertising based revenue system. With On-Demand viewing which enables users to skip advertisements, ad revenues are set to decline.
For teenagers, the trend of watching their favourite shows depend on
a) no. of televisions in their respective house
b) Availability of a computer with broadband. As most channels offer online catch-up facilities.
c)The channels subscribed for by the earning members of the family.
Since more than often, teens are not the earning members of the family,the final decision of what channels their TV is subscribed to is decided not by them, but by their parents or elders.

The choice of Virgin Media over Sky on the price criteria is another example of sample bias.
Sep 2008 figures: Sky has 9 million customers, which is almost thrice the size of Virgin Media, which holds the second place. Television viewing hours are again dependent on the demographic of teenagers selected.

Internet:
The popularity of social networking websites is evident amongst teenagers. While Facebook remains a favourite, Twitter seems to be not so popular amongst the teens. Even when Twitter occupies much of the attention in the internet buzz-zone, it is absent from the buzz-words amongst the teenagers, primarily because of lack of connectivity, or the cost of it. More of this will be discussed in a later post.

Much of the other information shared in the report regarding Newspaper, Viral Marketing, Cinema and Music is basic common sense stuff. Print media is struggling to get revenues; Viral Marketing works; Cinema has to look for other avenues to compete with Home Entertainment – hence 3d films, Movie experiences etc and Music industry keeps struggling with Piracy.

Please comment below and let me know your thoughts on the observations stated in this post. Thanks!

Image Courtesy: Service-Now’s Flickr Photostream

The Phone that changed..

Say Hello to iPhone 3GS

Looks the same as before

Performance Comparison

3MP camera on the iPhone

Macro Shots on the iPhone Auto Focus Camera

Video is ON..on the iPhone

Video Capture Specs for iPhone

Voice Control in the iPhone

Digital Compass with Maps

And the price is..

Jun 19 for UK and US

August launch for India

And it's a wrap for WWDC 2009 Keynote! No "one more thing"s

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Phil is in The House

WWDC Entrance People Queue

Inside Moscone West Waiting for Phil

Mac vs PC Ad

Specs of the new Macs

New Mac's got SD Love

Say Hello to Snow Leopard is Here!

Quicktime X unveiled

64bit processing

Open Standards

And the family goes for!

For the loyal ones

Next Up: iPhone OS 3.0 at the WWDC Keynote 2009