Post Tagged with: "tablets"

Tablet Computing in Portrait Mode
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Tablet Computing in Portrait Mode

Last week I wrote about my two must have iPad accessories. In that list I included the Logitech Ultra-thin Keyboard Cover. Among the many reasons I like this case over similarly good ones like the Zagg Folio or the Adonit is because it allows me to do computing on my iPad in portrait mode. It [...]

Published by on May 11, 2012 8:07 am
Mobile TV May Make A Comeback
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Mobile TV May Make A Comeback

I have been tracking the mobile TV space since the early 2000′s and mostly given up after the last push, using DVB-H failed. I tracked quite a bit of research around mobile TV in North America and we performed our own use case research as well. North America as a market for mobile TV is [...]

Published by on May 9, 2012 12:11 pm
Tablets: Numbers and Observations
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Tablets: Numbers and Observations

Both IDC and Display Search released updated numbers for the tablet segment. There are some interesting key take aways from both sets of numbers. IDC confirms Apple’s dominant position with regards to iPad share and points to slumping Android shipments for tablets which is no surprise. The Display Search data is a bit more comprehensive [...]

Published by on May 3, 2012 2:33 pm
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
Notebooks are the Past, Tablets are the Future
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Notebooks are the Past, Tablets are the Future

This may be one of the more controversial columns I have written in sometime, although my goal is not to be controversial but to spur thought- so please hear me out. It is no secret that I am very bullish on the tablet form factor. I have written extensively about them since the launch of [...]

Published by on April 27, 2012 7:16 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
Why My Next Tablet Will Run Windows 8
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Why My Next Tablet Will Run Windows 8

I’ve been using Windows-based tablet computers for almost a decade. I was hooked the moment Bill Gates trotted out Microsoft’s first prototype tablets at a developer event in mid-2001. I got my first tablet, a Fujitsu Stylistic, in 2003 and I’ve carried it or its successors to meetings ever since, migrating along the way from [...]

Published by on April 19, 2012 7:06 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
Intel and Microsoft’s Secret Weapon Against Apple
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Intel and Microsoft’s Secret Weapon Against Apple

Intel and their partners are about to launch the biggest promotion in a decade for a new product category called UltraBooks. Microsoft is also about to launch a major update to Windows called Windows 8 that introduces a new user interface based on touch with their new Metro UI. Together they are critical products for [...]

Published by on March 19, 2012 6:44 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
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 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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