The week in iPad, July 31, 2011

Missed a compelling piece of iPad news, a great review, or a killer how-to? We're not collecting absolutely everything in iPad here -- you can hit up TiPb.com/iPad for that! -- but we're carefully picking what we think is the best of the last 7 days and presenting it here for your review.

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Meta

• Superfunctional 4: Footwear
• Iterate 3: Prototypes

The competition

• Is that a Galaxy Tab 10.1 in this iPad podcaster’s pocket?

iPad 3

• iPhone 5 to launch in second week of September, iPad 3 to follow later in the year?

News

• Apple now owns 66% of mobile profits
• AT&T to throttle top 5% of “unlimited” data users
• Florida school scrapping textbooks and rolling out iPads to its students
• Grand Central Apple Store design looks beautiful, it could even be open for the holidays

Apps

• Facebook for iPad found hidden in the latest iPhone app update?
• NASA Visualization Explorer for iPad hits the App Store
• Google tweaks iPad search experience
• Amazon updates Kindle app, adds new features, removes link to web store [Updated: Nook and Google Books too]
• Netflix for iPhone, iPad updated to support iOS 4.3.4 (and iOS 5!)