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BetFair App for the iPhone and the iPad –> BetFair Rattle

As I understand it, BetFair has one iPhone App for the British bettors (only).
And they’ve just released a new one (BetFair Rattle), also only for the UK Apple App Store.
BetFair:
BETFAIR LAUNCHES FREE IPHONE APP FOR FOOTBALL FANS
BETFAIR, the world’s biggest online sports betting company, has released a nifty new application for football fans to compete [...]

In the universe of Steve Jobs, personal vision trumps the wisdom of the crowd. He’s ready when he thinks we’re ready.

New York Times:
Great products, according to Mr. Jobs, are triumphs of “taste.” And taste, he explains, is a byproduct of study, observation and being steeped in the culture of the past and present, of “trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then bring those things into what you are doing.”
His [...]

Apple iPad

It is not an iTablet or iSlate — it is an iPad (in between an iPhone and a Macintosh laptop).
http://www.apple.com/ipad/

More photos. Here too. And here.
UPDATE: One thing bothers me. Apple iPad doesn’t compute Flash, and so you can’t view YouTube videos on the Safari browser —but there’s a YouTube app, I am told. Humm…
UPDATE: Link [...]

The Apple Tablet looks like a bigger iPhone that sports an awesome UI packed in a beautiful 10.1-inch screen.

“The tablet combines the functions of both netbook and kindle, an ebook reader. It has virtual keyboard for text entry and a webcam for video conferencing.”
More info at TechMeme

The iPod Touch is the future of the prediction markets.

Is Apple becoming evil? — Jason Calacanis vs Guy Kawasaki

External Links: Paul Graham’s criticism of Apple + Phil Schiller Grants Interview About Apple’s App Store, Claims Devs Actually Like Approval Process. + The BusinessWeek interview + iPhone developers are stupid.

A cute sticker for your Apple Macintosh

As I told you many times, the iPod Touch is the future of Internet betting. — BetFair and InTrade are dinosaurs.

Previously: The iPod Touch is the future of online betting. — BetFair and InTrade are dinosaurs.

Statements that Robin Hanson will never be able to say about the prediction markets

Previously: Have the public prediction markets ever been taken seriously by the media and the decision makers during the 1988–2009 period?

The iPod Touch is the future of online betting. — BetFair and InTrade are dinosaurs.

- “Not everybody’s computer fits in your pocket.”
- [Laughter.]

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