The iPad is taking away American jobs
The iPad is taking away American jobs
Comment: The car killed the carriage, the PC killed the typewriter, etc.
Showing posts with label Apple IPad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple IPad. Show all posts
4.22.2011
3.30.2011
Sniping at Apple (the IPad)
Microsoft Strategy Chief: Tablets May Just Be A Fad
Excerpt:
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Mundie is more bullish on smartphones, which he thinks will become the "most personal computer."
He drew a distinction between mobile devices like smartphones -- which are used when you're literally in transit moving -- and portable devices, like notebooks, which you have to stop and set down before you can work with them.
He called the iPad an "in between" device and said "Personally I don't know whether I believe that space will be a persistent one or not."
Later he elaborated that tablets "are not very good for creating things" and are mainly being used for consumption, not creation of content and said "I don't know whether consumption things will remain a category by themselves or not."
Dell exec: iPad too costly, closed, complex
Excerpts:
“I couldn’t be happier that Apple has created a market and built up enthusiasm but longer term, open, capable and affordable will win, not closed, high price and proprietary,” Lark told reporter Lisa Banks.
Lark was particularly pointed in his criticism that the popular tablet doesn’t work for enterprise users.
“Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island. It’s not so great if you have to exist in a diverse, open, connected enterprise; simple things become quite complex.”
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Lark’s other central rip against the iPad was price.
“An iPad with a keyboard, a mouse and a case [means] you’ll be at $1500 or $1600; that’s double of what you’re paying,” he said. “That’s not feasible.”
Comment: Apple has the knack of defining the category. Was so with the point and click, GUI operating system interface (which took more than a decade for Microsoft to catch up with Apple (Windows 7 finally a great operating system that matches OS X)), the music player (Zune is dead); the multifunction phone (IPhone), and the IPAD.
12.09.2010
12.02.2010
On Angry Birds
Why We Can't Stop Playing - Mixing Psychology With Physics, Cute Characters, And Lots of Cheering.
Excerpt:
Not since the invention of bacon and eggs has the collision of fowl and swine tasted so good.
A game called Angry Birds is dominating the best-selling-applications charts for Apple's iPhone with a simple, whimsical premise: Players turn different species of scowling birds into projectiles with which to crush a collection of grunting pigs scattered around various ramshackle structures. More than 12 million copies of Angry Birds have been sold since it went on sale late last year, most of them 99-cent downloads for iPhones and iPod touches, according to Rovio Mobile Ltd., the Finnish company that created the game.
Comment: Wiki article. I bought it for the IPAD to give it a try. I'm not addicted but I have tried it out. I can't get by one of the levels so am kind of on hold
6.02.2010
IPad e-mail auto-fill: excrement happens
When Your iPad Says Something You Didn’t
Excerpt:
A couple days ago, I was in a meeting with several folks. One of them mentioned that he’s absolutely ga-ga over his new iPad.
A few hours later, he sent out a group e-mail from that very machine:
We too really enjoyed the meeting and so appreciate your thoughts, insights and excrement for the project.
I guess he still has to get used to Apple’s e-mail auto-fill. He was mortified but I told him not to worry: hey, excrement happens.
Comment: A mistake I could easily make!
4.16.2010
4.01.2010
IPad: Reviews for Techies and for Everyone Else
Looking at the iPad From Two Angles
Excerpt:
The haters tend to be techies; the fans tend to be regular people. Therefore, no single write-up can serve both readerships adequately. There’s but one solution: Write separate reviews for these two audiences.
Read the first one if you’re a techie. (How do you know? Take this simple test. Do you use BitTorrent? Do you run Linux? Do you have more e-mail addresses than pants? You’re a techie.)
Read the second review if you’re anyone else.
Comment: I want an Android phone but I cannot mentally justify it.
1.29.2010
Is IPad a Kindle killer?
Can the iPad compete as an e-book reader?
Excerpt:
The biggest open question regarding the iPad’s potential as an e-reader relates to its bright, LED-backlit display. Amazon’s Kindle uses E Ink, which—while much duller and darker than an LED screen—is decidedly easy on the eyes. I can read my Kindle for hours, with no eyestrain afterwards.
Comment: Amazon Kindle There are no additional 3G fees with the Kindle!
At least they didn't call it the "IFlow"
For Apple, iPad Said More Than Intended
Excerpt:
Many women are saying the name evokes awkward associations with feminine hygiene products.
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In the hours after the iPad announcement on Wednesday, “iTampon” became one of the most popular trending topics on Twitter. Apple’s communication team fielded a wave of queries on the subject but characteristically declined to comment.
“I care about words and their connotations, but you don’t have to be in junior high to make this leap,” said Robin Bernstein, a corporate speech writer on Long Island, who addressed the issue on her Facebook page on Wednesday. “A lot of women when they hear the word ‘pad’ are going to think about feminine hygiene.”
Michael Cronan, a naming consultant in Berkeley, Calif., whose company has helped come up with brands like TiVo and Kindle, said many naming experiments show that women tend to reflexively relate words like “pad” and “flow” to bodily concerns.
Comment: For more consider Brand names that don't export well
A scathing review: iPad: The Greatest Disappointment in Human History
Excerpt:
Apple’s lost opportunity was to create a device that did one thing amazingly, exceptionally, innovately well. Instead they chose to make a giant iPod Touch that I can’t carry in my pocket and that I can’t use to call my wife when I’m going to be home late. I can’t take it on my morning walk to listen to music. I can’t take it to a conference in place of my MacBook, either. Now there is a chance that I could throw it in my bag in place of my Kindle, but I don’t know if that’s likely to happen. After all, the Kindle does one thing and it does it well—better, I think, than the iPad. It can do it for two weeks, rather than eight hours and doesn’t require a monthly contract.
Fujitsu’s iPad
IPad? That’s So 2002, Fujitsu Says
Excerpt:
Sold mainly in the United States, the multifunctional device from the Tokyo technology company helps shop clerks verify prices, check real-time inventory data and close sales on the go.
Fujitsu, which applied for an iPad trademark in 2003, is claiming first dibs, setting up a fight with Apple over the name of the new tablet device that Apple plans to sell starting in March.
“It’s our understanding that the name is ours,” Masahiro Yamane, director of Fujitsu’s public relations division, said Thursday. He said Fujitsu was aware of Apple’s plans to sell the iPad tablet and that the company was consulting lawyers over next steps.
Fujitsu’s iPad, which runs on Microsoft’s CE.NET operating system, has a 3.5-inch color touchscreen, an Intel processor and Wi-fi and Bluetooth connections; it also supports VoIP telephone calls over the Internet, a technology also used by Skype.
“Mobile is a keyword for Fujitsu’s iPad, too,” Mr. Yamane said. “With the iPad, workers don’t have to keep running back to a computer. They have everything right at their fingertips.”
Fujitsu Says it Owns Rights to 'iPad' Name, Not Apple
Excerpt:
In early 2009, Fujitsu's trademark application was declared abandoned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the company re-opened its application in June. Since the re-instatement of the Fujitsu application, Apple has been trying to take it away (via proxy) — in fact, they've filed three petitions to extend the deadline. Apple now has until Feb. 28 to oppose Fujitsu's claims.
And it looks the gauntlet's been thrown — according to the Wall Street Journal , Fujitsu is consulting lawyers over the next steps, as it is the company's understanding that the name is Fujitsu's.
Comment: See my next post for weirdness about the IPad name and a devastating critique of Apple's IPad
1.27.2010
Note the quote on the slide
"Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it"
Comment: Gag!
IPad: Will It Float?
After months of rampant speculation, Apple Wednesday announced a touchscreen tablet computer, the "iPad" for consumers who want to take their movies, TV shows, music, games and reading with them, be it around the house or on the go.
"We want to kick off 2010 with a truly revolutionary and magical product," CEO Steve Jobs told a packed audience at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Wednesday.
"So far it really looks like an oversized iPod Touch, which is great, but if that's it, price will be paramount," said Avi Greengart, Current Analysis analyst, blogging from the event itself for Reuters news service.
Comment: Will It Float? was a long running Letterman sketch. I'm close to buying a smart phone .... probably a Nexus One. I just don't see how the IPad fits. Would someone want to haul this around? Thoughts?
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