The iPad makes it save more than one million dollars to American Airlines

Many will already be familiar with the story of 1987 of how American Airlines saved $ 40 billion to remove an olive from each Salad served in first class menu. The following news is not so surprising but reflects the same spirit: how "think different" allows, among other things, address it to the recession and the unstable economic climate. This week, the same air carrier has started a pilot program for the Apple iPad in flight.

American Airlines, the airline based in United States, has announced that this week would begin with a pilot for the iPad. As we have seen on other occasions, the company replaced its tables and charts on paper by the multi-touch Tablet from Apple. As reported, this strategy would save you the company up 1.2 million dollars per year in fuel costs. Yes, they read well.

I imagine that some of you are wondering what they have to see the graphics on paper with the spending of gasoline from a plane. According to MarketWatch, publication of The Wall Street Journal dedicated to business news network, the sacks containing these documents of route weigh, in the best cases, around 35 pounds (16 kg). Make a digital one switch or two iPads per flight would dramatically reduce the weight and would enable significant fuel savings.

The initiative has already been approved by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), from this moment both private and commercial flights are authorized to implement the Apple tablets in his travels. In the case of American Airlines, this week will begin to do tests with two of their outbound flights from Los Angeles to Tokyo and Shanghai.

It should be noted that American Airlines is not the first to resort to this strategy. Last may, Alaska Air announced cordite that would begin to do testing during their flights using iPads, and remember that weeks ago here in AppleWeblog, they had on the decision of the body of Marines of the United States do the same.

In addition to being an ideal device for leisure and the entertenimiento, the Cupertino iPad has become a powerful tool for work and productivity. Also, as if all this was shortly after, the high capacity of adaptamiento of Apple devices allowed be used in more complex and specialized tasks such as aerial journeys, surgeries of knees, and space travel. Who would have said so? The lives of around 200 people--literally--in the hands of a pilot and his oversized iPhone.

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Dropbox and Spotify More alive than ever

Just a few hours ago came the launch of iCloud, the bet of the Apple cloud computing. Of all our digital life, and as such, channelling service encompasses a multitude of services relating to our files: music, documents, photographs, etc.

Many of us are sure that we have been pondering the implications that this product will have in the way we use existing ones. We must probably be users of Dropbox or Spotify. They will suffer from these two services, one musical and one storage in the cloud, iCloud as a result? It may be, remember that one of the iCloud applications is called iTunes cloud, i.e. our personal music library placed on Apples servers for our enjoyment through any device.

Another application is iCloud Storage, a function that stores all documents created using APIs iCloud Storage, and it automatically does push them towards all our devices. Speaking of APIs is shown that it is not an exclusive use in the enterprise apps, but on third-party apps, because developers will be authorized to use this system to manage their own documents.

Then, do we leave to use Dropbox and Spotify? Honestly, I think that it wont. On the contrary, both products will grow in use. On the one hand Dropbox does not put constraints to the type of document used or if the application has already implemented the API or not. For now, with iCloud Storage available documents are who manages Pages, Numbers and Keynote, that is to say, a small percentage of our digital lives, where are the PDFs or our old files in .doc format?

There is also time to talk about spotify. While the Apple model is sound and very attractive, there is something contrary to what can not fight: the user does not want to buy songs, wants to have at its disposal all the possible topics to listen to what most pleases without need to establish a priority of purchase, or a time for deciding what titles will acquire property or what can be expected. Not already accustomed, through these streaming services, to find on P2P networks to download songs at local, Spotify is above all that and I personally think continue using it until now.

The truth and truth is that both Dropbox and Spotify may suffer an increase in their use and number of users. The reason? The loss of fear. Apple will come to a good percentage of people who until now did not know or do not trust in the cloud computing. Once they adjust and check their benefits, will be more open to experiment with other proposals, both to save documents as listening to music, and there will be Dropbox and Spotify (or similar services) to fill more than their expectations.

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