Like the iPad’s iBooks bookshelf? It looks like books on a bookshelf. Delicious Library’s Wil Shipley in The Inquirer: I guess it’s not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product’s look. Flattery? So, Shipley is miffed at Apple because the iBooks bookshelf looks like … Read More »
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Future Shock 2010
Remember Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock? Toffler argues that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a “super-industrial society”. This change will overwhelm people, the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaving them disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation” – future shocked. Fraser Speirs on … Read More »
Saturday, January 30, 2010
ATT on the iPad: We Can iHandle It
Apple’s iPad comes in two versions. Wi-Fi. Or, Wi-Fi plus 3G. In the US that means using AT&T’s problematic 3G network. Jenna Wortham in NYT’s Bits: Buyers of the iPad will grapple with the question of whether spending the extra cash for a model outfitted for wireless data over AT&T’s overtaxed network will be worth … Read More »
Friday, January 29, 2010
Forbes: Playing with this machine is like eating Doritos. It’s hard to stop.
Brian Caulfield on Forbes: Does the gigantic iPod iPad have USB ports? No. Flash support? No. HDMI output? No. SD Card slot? No. Can it run several different third-party apps at once? No. Will you ever need to clean the registry and defragment the hard drive? No. The iPad sounds silly if you’re shopping based … Read More »
Friday, January 29, 2010
Apple’s iPad Event Broke the Internets
If you tried to visit the various and sundry web sites covering Apple’s iPad announcement, you likely ran into a few delays. JR Raphael, PC World: Both Engadget and Gizmodo, two of the Web’s biggest tech blogs, were inaccessible during parts of the Apple event, according to user reports on Twitter and other places. Web … Read More »
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Ten Things Missing From the iPad
Charlie Sorel in Wired on things missing from the iPad but that don’t really matter anyway. The iPad was supposed to change the face of computing, to be a completely new form of digital experience. But what Steve Jobs showed us yesterday was in fact little more than a giant iPhone. A giant iPhone that … Read More »
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The terrible reasons why the iPad will fail
For the next few months we will have to put up with the age old argument of Mac vs. Windows. The argument is the same, only the name has changed. Will iPad succeed or fail? All The Reasons Why Not The problem here is that common sense is lacking among many technology pundits. Comparisons are … Read More »