April 2010
5 posts
2 tags
Hoping that HP will be smart
I just read this on daringfireball.net:
Mike Arrington: HP to Kill Windows 7 ‘Slate’ Project
Mike Arrington:
Hewlett-Packard has killed off its much ballyhooed Windows 7 tablet computer, says a source who’s been briefed on the matter.
If true, that means Steve Ballmer got up on stage for his CES keynote to promote a “slate” that will never actually ship.
This is the problem with not...
“In order to get 10 hours of battery life, the entire iPad (including display)...”
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iFixit. Wow. I hadn’t bothered to do the math in my head, so I didn’t realize how impressive that was until now. That’s insane.
If we didn’t have proof right here in front of us, I’d insist that 2.5W total power consumption for a computer with a brightly backlit 9” LCD while playing videos and...
“Apple got part of it right–ads need to be meaningful and useful–but being...”
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(via chrisbowler)
Amen Kyle Baxter, amen.
This basically nails it. Ads from the companies named, aren’t randomly generated ads, but randomly displayed ads for hand-picked products. They have actually gotten me to buy some of the advertised products, whereas 99.9% of all web ads I simply don’t...
background apps and the iPhone/iPad
I just read this post by Andy Ihnatko on the absence of multitasking for third party apps on the iPad. Also: A mere hour ago John Gruber wrote this:
The iPad’s twice as fast as an iPhone 3GS, and appears to have the same amount of RAM: 256 MB.
This made me think about the implications of running apps in the background on the iPhone and iPad.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the iPhone 3GS...
An underrated iPad feature
The thing that is going to matter most about the iPad, in comparison to other tablets, netbooks and laptops, is the ‘instant-on’ feature.
With the iPhone it wasn’t something people really thought about (every mobile phone does it), but with a device that is being wilfully wedged between the iPhone and the laptop, it is this capability that will win many people over.
March 2010
7 posts
Read this: Stephen Fry visits the Apple... →
There are few writers I enjoy reading more than Steven Fry. He was given the opportunity to visit Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, talk to Steve Jobs and try the iPad. Give this article a read, you won’t regret it.
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