With the announcement of the iPad Apple stimulated discussion on the future of computer. Some commentators have described the touch screen tablet device as disruptive and I believe that they are quite correct. When I showed my iPhone to my mother, a woman who fears technology, wouldn’t know one end of a computer from the [...]
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One of the biggest complaints levelled at the iPad is that it lacks support for Adobe’s Flash. Flash is a software platform that allows addition of interactive web content and animation on the web. It is most commonly used to display video on the web and in the use of web applications such as games. Flash [...] In 1997 as he resumed the helm at Apple Steve Jobs told a packed MacWorld audience that “We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose.”. Minutes prior to that statement Bill Gates, the Microsoft CEO, had appeared on the big-screen behind Jobs and confirmed Microsoft’s commitment [...] Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, made its debut on the 26th ending the months (years?) or speculation that preceded it. For the Apple faithful this device represented a long harboured desire to see the Newton resurrected after its summary execution at the hands of Steve Jobs in 1997. Rumours of a hand-held computing device from [...] Mike Elgan writing over at Computer World. Perhaps I don’t totally agree with all of his observations, but I love the fourth one. This seems to have a great deal of resonance with the profit versus market share theory that Apple applies to its products. For example, among others John Gruber at Daring Fireball cites a report [...] The OC Register reports that people were queuing to get into a new Microsoft store at an Orange County mall in order to get a show-bag containing free tickets to a concert my a Canadian pop star. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/microsoft-store-viejo-2628335-mission-first Whatever you might think of Apple fanboys at least they are queuing for the products and the company, not [...] Last week saw the release of Windows 7. It also saw Microsoft launch its new retail store strategy. Both events were covered widely by the tech media and rightly so since they are both worthy of note, but one really gets the feeling that both were further symptoms of the giant, Microsoft, stumbling further off kilter. It [...] There came a point some months ago when I realised that I couldn’t go on with the LG Viewty. It was as awful as the name and the $20 per month price tag would suggest. It had a touch screen that made life harder than easier, a web browser that was completely unusable and an [...] I don’t drink alcohol and I find it a strange coincidence that two other skeptical bloggers in Perth, both of whom are in my blog roll, are also teetotallers. Just like me neither Kylie at Podblack nor Andy at Thinking is Real drink alcohol. Both talk about the pressure to conform in a society where [...] Since I always try to keep finger on the pulse of the tech world, and particularly on Apple’s pulse, I have been reading a lot of reviews and reports about Snow Leopard. While all of the reviews I have read have gone something this: “Snow Leopard contains lots of under the bonnet improvements invisible to users [...] |
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