Predictions for Apple's announcement
Working with Amazon and other providers, a new standard for ebooks and subscriptions that works on any device, focusing on low cost, ease of transfer to friends.
Apple will make a significant contribution toward development of free educational material for this standard using their excess cash.
New iPhone 4.0 based 100% on browser standards, runs Python and Java, multitasks, designed for local area bandwidth and media resharing, chat with any local people across devices.
New super low cost iPhone Equalizer designed as a do it all very portable computer, slightly less shiny than iPhone, 100% open source OS, mobile-me-too.net domain set up for user self support, notification LED for at a glance status, hardware buttons for consistent app navigation and context.
New super high cost version of iPhone runs previous iPhone OS 3.0, super shiny, has a built in function to block other people's net connection, special one use only "block this app for everyone else" mode, dual display (secondary display only shows classic Apple announcement footage).
New "iTablet" will be 8.5" x 11", shiny, allow reading of "books" and other passive entertainment, but awkward to type on. Will be designed around USB and Bluetooth as the centre of a rich, low cost standards based universe positioned in between Apple's iPhone, iPod, iGame, iBathroomPartner, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Behemoth, MacTV, MacTVStation, MacStereo, MacTubeStereo, iMac, iMac Pro, iMac Pro Radiant Heating, Mac, Mac Pro, and Mac CityBlock systems.
Using their leverage with carriers, Apple will allow consumers to easily buy and resell devices at fair market value, without contracts.
Using their influence with media, a daily front page or first-line Apple feature will become mandatory for all outlets, citizens.
Working with governments, tax credits will be worked out for wealthy Apple product purchasers, counselling for others.
Toronto 43° 39' 12.53" N, 79° 23' 2.16" W Arts Dance Person Asian Origin
Lata Pada is a Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. Pada is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance Company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the Founder and Director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UK-based Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing.Pada founded the dance company in 1990 because she wanted to showcase Bharatantyam dance as an art form throughout the world.
Pada, who attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai, trained under the gurus Kalaimamani Kalyanasundaram and Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan.Pada lives in Mississauga, near Toronto. Pada married geologist Vishnu Pada when she was 17 years old.
In 1985 Lata Pada and her family decided to take an extended vacation to India. On June 23 of that year Vishnu Pada and daughters Arti and Brinda died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Lata Pada was not aboard since she left on an earlier date to tour India for Bharatanatyam recitals in Bangalore and across India; Lata was in Mumbai rehearsing for her tour, while her husband and daughters stayed behind in Sudbury, Ontario because Brinda was graduating from high school; afterwards the three flew on Air India 182. Lata Pada became a spokesperson for the families of the victims. After the crash she created the dance piece "Revealed By Fire" in remembrance of the incident. Pada received a master's degree in fine arts from York University in 1997.
Pada married Hari Venkatacharya in September, 2000. Venkatacharya is an entrepreneur and was Managing Director of Nytric Business Partners and is the Immediate Past President of TiE Toronto. He also serves on the Boards of the Ontario Science Centre and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. They both met while founding the South Asian advisory committee at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1995, where they raised over $3 million Canadian dollars for Canada's first permanent South Asian Gallery.
In December 2008, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to the development of Bharatanatyam as a choreographer, teacher, dancer and artistic director, as well as for her commitment and support of the Indian community in Canada. Lata was also recently appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Dance, York University, Toronto.