Post Tagged with: "ipad"

iPad Magazine Apps–A Rare Failure
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iPad Magazine Apps–A Rare Failure

Technology Review Editor Jason Pontin has written an insightful article on why magazine apps on the iPad have been a huge disappointment to publishers–and why TR is abandoning its apps in favor of an HTML 5 web site. When the iPad came out two years ago, many in the magazine industry, along with Apple itself,  hailed [...]

Published by on May 7, 2012 9:52 am
The iPad May Kill Laptops and Save the Desktop
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The iPad May Kill Laptops and Save the Desktop

The iPad–and other tablets if we ever get some good ones–poses an existential threat to the laptop. But it might provide a new lease on life for the much-ignored desktop PC. My colleague Ben Bajarin touched on this theme in his a post Notebooks Are the Past, Tablets Are the Future. I want to take [...]

Published by on May 2, 2012 5:26 am
My Two Must Have iPad Accessories
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My Two Must Have iPad Accessories

Accessories are a key part of any platforms ecosystem. I was at the Apple store in a mall in San Jose recently and I couldn’t believe the amount of accessories for iPad now on the market. I was especially surprised about the amount of iPad mounts for all around your house or yard—more on that [...]

Published by on May 1, 2012 6:42 am
Would Hemingway have used an iPad?
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Would Hemingway have used an iPad?

For most of the week I have been in Paris, a city that I have traveled to regularly since 1971. Back then, communications to the US was dismal and a letter sent from here could take 2 weeks to get home. In fact, General Charles De Gaulle was still ruling when I first came to [...]

Published by on April 30, 2012 6:50 am
The Fallacies of How To Compete with the iPad
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The Fallacies of How To Compete with the iPad

I take articles like this claiming the iPad will drop below 50% market share by as early as next year with a grain of salt. I don’t want this article to be about all the reasons why we believe the iPad will maintain significant market share, we have written quite extensively about those reasons. I’d [...]

Published by on April 20, 2012 6:29 am
Where in the App Store is Carmen Sandiego?
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Where in the App Store is Carmen Sandiego?

One of the goals we have in my household is to develop and maintain an inquisitive culture and the desire to learn. Being immersed in the technology industry as I am, I naturally add technology as a part of that process. One of my favorite examples of how we have done this was with an [...]

Published by on April 11, 2012 9:57 am
Apple Turns Technology Into Art
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Apple Turns Technology Into Art

As I was reflecting on my first experience with the new iPad and its retina display I was intrigued with a thought. There has always been something about the iPhone’s retina display and now with the iPad’s display that has me mesmerized. When I first saw the new iPad and the screen at Apple’s event [...]

Published by on March 30, 2012 6:45 am
What Apple Needs to do to Stay Ahead with the iPad 4
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What Apple Needs to do to Stay Ahead with the iPad 4

Apple once again delivered a high quality experience with the “new” iPad, aka iPad 3. Like phones, Apple has again managed to deliver enough to stay ahead as they did with the iPhone 4s. The new iPad didn’t deliver a knockout blow to Android, but certainly eliminated many gaps that could drive many premium ($499+) [...]

Published by on March 27, 2012 7:16 am
How Apple is Cornering the Market in Mobile Devices
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How Apple is Cornering the Market in Mobile Devices

I have been speaking with various vendors of tablets lately and more than once, the topic of Apple “iPodding” them has come up. iPodding basically refers to the fact that although Apple has had the iPod on the market for over 10 years now, they still have over 70% of the MP3 portable digital music [...]

Published by on March 26, 2012 6:55 am
Why The iPad Will Change How We Work
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Why The iPad Will Change How We Work

What is becoming more clear every day is the way in which tablets are changing paradigms of computing that have existed for decades. The entire way we think about computers, and computing in general, is undergoing significant change. In the days of the desktop and notebook, computing hardware and software was functionally the same and [...]

Published by on March 20, 2012 7:08 am
Why the Latest iPad Forecasts Are Wrong
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Why the Latest iPad Forecasts Are Wrong

The recent 2012 WW forecast for tablets from IDC which forecasts sales of 106MM units in 2012 with Apple’s iPad numbers at a little under 60MM has been widely picked up and republished across the internet. The report also predicted that Apple could lose dominant marketshare to the Android platform by 2015. Windows tablets do [...]

Published by on March 16, 2012 7:23 am
iPad: It’s more than just the hardware
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iPad: It’s more than just the hardware

It seems that every time a new tablet comes on the market, people compare the hardware to Apple’s market leading iPad and wonder if this is the one that will dethrone it. The problem with this thinking is that the iPad isn’t just about the hardware and specs, it’s the experience. Companies like Samsung can [...]

Published by on March 15, 2012 9:05 am
Why the New iPad is Revolutionary.
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Why the New iPad is Revolutionary.

Not long after the new iPad was announced, story after story was written that this new iPad was evolutionary, not revolutionary. But I am not convinced that is a correct viewpoint. In fact, I believe that this new iPad will actually have a revolutionary impact on the market in some very interesting ways. Some Historical [...]

Published by on March 12, 2012 6:22 am
The Importance of Vision in the Technology Industry
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The Importance of Vision in the Technology Industry

I came across this article in the TabTimes written by my friend Dave Needle. What the article points out is an interesting video that was posted on YouTube showing Roger Fidler and his Information Design Lab putting quality thought and vision around media in particular but largely how digital technologies will change the future. XEROX [...]

Published by on March 10, 2012 10:01 am
The iPad and The Simplicity of the Name
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The iPad and The Simplicity of the Name

What Apple did by eliminating the numeric moniker was the right thing to do, in fact it may even be brilliant. The fact of the matter is numeric values that specify product generations simply can not last forever. Companies who use them generally change product names, create new names, or add some other moniker like [...]

Published by on March 9, 2012 8:40 am
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