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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Strategic Blunder With Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/microsofts-strategic-blunder-with-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article updated at 3:13 p.m. EDT on May 6, 2013 to correct reference to Lamborghini paddles being used for steering. The paddles are used for shifting. Last fall, I had the opportunity to drive a Lamborghini at a corporate event that I attended in Monterey, Calif. This was a very cool experience since I have never driven such an expensive ($200,000-plus) car, let alone a serious racing car on a racecourse. When I was being prepped to drive it, the professional driver that was to be in the car with me went through the cockpit controls and showed me how they all worked. The dashboard controls looked like they were from an airplane, given the number of dials and complex features. The instructor pointed out that while the car had a steering wheel, it also had the racing paddles used for shifting gears, which made steering the car easier and smoother when going fast on a racetrack. These are amazingly sensitive paddles that make controlling the car easier at fast speeds with curves; they&#8217;re not for the untrained or faint of heart. When he was showing me these paddles, I became very concerned. I thought he was trying to teach me to use them too quickly before we were to take off. Thankfully, he said the paddles would be disengaged, and I would use the steering wheel for our drive. He also disabled a lot of other features a true race-car driver would use. As a result, I was basically sitting in a normal car with a normal steering wheel, brake, accelerator and speed gauges. The fact that I was going to get the car to 100-plus miles an hour on the straightaway still freaked me out, but the knowledge that I knew how to drive a normal car, even if this version was a race car, was ultimately comforting. The drive was truly exciting, but as I reflected on it, this race car was pretty much a normal, albeit highly expensive and very souped-up car. And because I knew how to drive<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162081&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can the PC Industry Resurrect itself?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/can-the-pc-industry-resurrect-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IDC&#8217;s recent report stated that PC shipments declined 13.9% last quarter, the worst since IDC has been tracking PCs. It says a lot about the state of the PC industry. The role PCs are playing in people&#8217;s lives is changing, and the growing demand for tablets and smartphones has taken its toll on the PC market. Last week my son Ben, in his column for TIME Tech entitled &#8220;The iPad-Sized Nail in the PC&#8217;s Coffin&#8221; laid much of the blame on the iPad for deflating PC sales. Ben also made the point that people are either keeping their current PCs longer or if they buy a new PC or laptop, they buy cheaper models because they are &#8220;good enough&#8221; to use for any computing needs that can&#8217;t accomplished on a tablet. But is the PC really dead? And if not, how will PC vendors respond to this challenge from tablets and smartphones? It turns out that people have found they can do as much as 80% on a tablet that they used to do on a PC. However, they have also found out that tablets by themselves cannot meet all of their digital computing needs, especially for handling things like media management, extensive photo editing, making complex home movies, doing their taxes and other similar tasks. This suggests that if they only need a PC 20% of the time, the need to buy an expensive PC does not make sense for most people. For the past 10 years, a good part of PC sales were for laptops and PCs in the $799-$999 range &#8212; those which have higher-end processors, extended graphics capabilities and more on-board memory and hard drive space than laptops and PCs priced well below $699. We are hearing from consumers that if they only use a PC or laptop 20% of the time, the highest price they want to pay is $599, with most preferring price points of $399-$449. This is why Ultrabook sales have been very disappointing for the PC vendors who hoped that their touch-based<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160733&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue and the Rise of Ultramobiles</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/08/windows-blue-and-the-rise-of-ultramobiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a very important industry forecast from Gartner that came out last week, which basically said that we would continue to see a decline in traditional PC and laptop demand and instead see huge growth in tablets and smartphones. However, they had another growth segment in the forecast that&#8217;s quite interesting: They predict that the industry will sell 25 million ultramobile devices this year and up to 96 million in 2017. If you have seen a Microsoft Surface Pro or a large tablet with a screen that detaches from a keyboard, these are what some PC makers call ultramobile devices. We also see smaller-screen clamshell notebooks being defined as ultramobiles as well. While laptops in the traditional sense, they are fully functional mobile devices that in most cases can be used for media consumption as well as productivity. While this segment is still a small part of the PC market today, Gartner believes that they will be a major part of the PC market over the next two years. I believe this forecast for ultramobile devices is actually conservative. The reason is that later this year, Microsoft will introduce an upgrade to Windows 8, code named Windows Blue, and it will be quite an important update to the current version of the company&#8217;s PC operating system. For the first time, Windows 8 will be able to be used on smaller tablets in the seven- to eight-inch range, which will finally let Microsoft compete directly with Apple’s iPad Mini and the smaller tablets from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google and Samsung, among others. At Creative Strategies, we are forecasting that by 2015, tablets eight inches and smaller will account for about 65% of all tablets sold worldwide. But the ultramobile device form factors for which Windows Blue could really boost market demand are the ones that could sport 11.1- or 11.6-inch touchscreens and be designed like a more traditional laptop, although quite thin and light in actual design. Some will be clamshells, while some will have detachable screens. People aware<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159729&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Killer App for Google&#8217;s Glasses</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/25/a-killer-app-for-google-glasses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk and excitement about Google Glass. They&#8217;ve captured the imagination of the technorati and even garnered feedback from the mainstream media in reports that Google&#8217;s computerized eyewear might be barred in certain restaurants and bars. Clearly it&#8217;s a fascinating product and concept, though it&#8217;s harder to say if it&#8217;ll catch on or be successful beyond early adopters who love gadgets. It&#8217;s true that solid use cases for Google Glass could develop in vertical markets, possibly for use in medicine, transportation, public safety, etc. However, at $1,500 it&#8217;s hardly a consumer device. The fact that it could take pictures, record video, deliver speech to text and put you into hangouts — even get directions — is interesting, but it would have to do a lot more for consumers to spend that sort of money out of the gate. That&#8217;s how this works, of course: most major technology products start out quite expensive and eventually come down in price over time. Part of getting the price down comes from the early adopters, who help to pay for the R&#38;D costs of the product. And with greater demand, the vendors — in this case Google — get price breaks from component manufacturers, which helps pay down initial equipment and manufacturing costs. (MORE: Google Glasses Seem Cool, but Voice Control Could Get Out of Hand) While I don’t think Google&#8217;s glasses are headed for consumer-friendly price levels anytime soon, I do think there could be a consumer-oriented app tied to these glasses that might appeal to vertical users as well as a group of consumers that could actually drive high demand for the eyewear, even if the glasses themselves are pricey. Because of the nature of my work, I&#8217;m what you might call a reluctant world traveler. Over 35 years, I&#8217;ve traveled close to 4 million miles (6.5 million km) and visited 55 different countries doing work in the tech field. I was born in the U.S., and my first language is English. I took Spanish in high school<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158770&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invasion of the Low-Cost Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/11/invasion-of-the-low-cost-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I received a press release from a company called D2 announcing its new 16-gigabyte 7-inch tablet running Android Jelly Bean 4.1 and priced at $89. This is sold exclusively at Big Lots and went on sale March 1. This new tablet also has a micro SD slot so you can upgrade its memory, making it a very versatile, yet low-cost tablet solution. That same day I got a note from HP stating that it introduced a new 7-inch tablet of its own, known as the Slate7, also using Android Jelly Bean 4.1 for $169. Unlike the D2, the Slate7 has a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera and a VGA camera on the front. It goes on sale in April. Of course, Google has its own low-cost tablet called the Nexus 7. And Amazon’s 7-inch Kindle Fire HD sells for $199. And over at Fry’s, our local tech supermart, I recently saw at least three non-branded tablets selling for $99 or less. With all of this low-cost tablet activity going on, it seems pretty clear that the invasion of the low-cost tablet is in full swing. They&#8217;re very affordable for anyone who wants or needs a tablet. Although this race to the bottom in low-cost tablets will not deliver any major profits for those making these cheap tablets, this is really good news for consumers. It also suggests that we are about to launch the “tablet-in-every-room” phase of the tablet market &#8212; one that could have the profound effect of speeding up the integration of all things digital into our lifestyles. By nature of the amount of tablets I have for various reasons, I already have a tablet in every room of my house. Some are iPads and some are Android tablets of various operating system versions. And one or two of them are based on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system. All have at least two common denominators among them: The first is a web browser. This means that every tablet I have gives me unlimited access to the Internet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157900&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Your Smartphone Will Be Your Next PC</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/25/why-your-smartphone-will-be-your-next-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 20 years ago, when I was lugging around a 9-pound laptop on trips all over the world, I kept thinking that there had to be a better way to compute while traveling. At the time though, we only had the technology to deliver heavy and clunky portables. If you wanted to work while on the road, this is all anyone had available to them back then. On one of my trips to London in 1992, I started envisioning what I would want in a portable computer if we had the necessary technology to make a more portable computing vision come true. While I could have envisioned a lighter, thinner and sleeker laptop, my actual vision was much more far reaching in concept. As I was sitting on that flight, I began wondering, &#8220;What if the back of the seat in front me of had a screen on it and the tray table could flip over and have a keyboard built into it for input?&#8221; I then envisioned what I called a CPU brick, which I could plug into the keyboard. It would power this PC shell, and more importantly, it would have all of my personal user interfaces, content, email clients and everything else I needed. In other words, the brick would be my personal computer and I would just plug it into some kind of dock connected to screens on planes, trains, and in hotel rooms and airport lounges. (MORE: Your Smartphone Will Become the Hub of Your Digital Lifestyle) While the idea of having screens and keyboard docks available everywhere no longer makes sense, there is a similar concept emerging that in a way turns your smartphone into that CPU brick and makes various screens available for viewing your content. Early attempts at this came from Motorola with its Atrix smartphone and Lapdock accessory. Along the same lines is the Asus Padfone. The basic idea here is that the smartphone itself is your PC and then docks into the back of either a portable screen or some<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157174&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has Apple Finished Disrupting Markets?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/11/has-apple-finished-disrupting-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things Apple has demonstrated over its lifetime is that it has become the great disruptor. When the Mac came on the scene in 1984 and introduced computer users to the graphical user interface, it shook up the text-based DOS market so dramatically that it forced Microsoft to follow Apple&#8217;s lead quickly in order to stay relevant. Now graphical user interfaces are the norm on all PCs. Eighteen months later, Apple pushed the Mac as a disruptor to the publishing market with the introduction of desktop publishing. Marrying the Mac, a desktop laser printer and Aldus’ PageMaker software, Apple championed a desktop-publishing solution that completely changed the publishing world by letting people create content on demand and publish it without the help of the publishing industry’s big-iron solutions. Today, personal publishing on the desktop or on the Web has its roots in Apple’s disruptive desktop-publishing blitz. In the early 2000s, Apple upended the music market with the introduction of the iPod and an easy way to access, buy and play music on the go. While pirating music was the real disruptor to the music industry back in the late 1990s, only the tech literate went online to get MP3 files. While early MP3 players came out to make digital-music playback more portable, it took Apple with the iPod and iTunes to really disrupt the digital-music market and bring it to the masses. Then in 2007, Apple disrupted the cell-phone market with the iPhone. While Apple did not invent the smart phone, the company reinvented it in ways that completely disrupted the wireless carriers&#8217; way of controlling their own programs and added the element of a truly intelligent operating system and apps to the smart-phone landscape. The iPhone has literally redefined what a smart phone is and has dramatically disrupted the entire telecommunications world. In 2010, Apple introduced the iPad. The company did not invent the tablet. It reinvented the tablet and in the process reinvented the personal computer. Now the iPad has become a major disruptive force in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155675&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Graph Search: The Emperor Needs New Digital Clothes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/28/facebook-graph-search-the-emperor-needs-new-digital-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I&#8217;m not much into clothes. Give me some comfortable jeans and a clean shirt and I&#8217;m ready to go. My better half has a different position on this topic. Sometimes she takes 30 minutes or more just to decide what to wear. Apparently this gene is being passed down to my granddaughters who, when over at our house, also spend more time than I think necessary to get ready to go out the door &#8212; even if we&#8217;re just going to a movie theater where it&#8217;s dark the whole time. But I am beginning to think that when it comes to a digital world, I may need to be more cognizant of my digital clothing. Most of us know the children’s fable, The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes. The synopsis, per Wikipedia: A vain Emperor who cares for nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires two swindlers who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or &#8220;hopelessly stupid&#8221;. The Emperor&#8217;s ministers cannot see the clothing themselves, but pretend that they can for fear of appearing unfit for their positions and the Emperor does the same. Finally the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they mime dressing him and the Emperor marches in procession before his subjects. The townsfolk play along with the pretense not wanting to appear unfit for their positions or stupid. Then a child in the crowd, too young to understand the desirability of keeping up the pretense, blurts out that the Emperor is wearing nothing at all and the cry is taken up by others. The Emperor cringes, suspecting the assertion is true, but continues the procession. One could also interpret this fable as being about keeping the status quo around you and not seeing that things in your world may be wrong or have changed. I believe that if this fable were written today, it might be titled The Emperor Needs New Digital Clothes, especially if he had a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154847&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Smartphone Will Become the Hub of Your Digital Lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/14/your-smartphone-will-become-the-hub-of-your-digital-lifestyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the winter of 2000, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Macworld conference and laid out what we now consider a very forward thinking idea: He said that the Mac would become the center of our digital lifestyle. We didn&#8217;t know it at the time, but Jobs and his team at Apple were secretly working on the iPod and a music store that used the Mac to side-load downloaded music to the iPod. When Jobs introduced the iPod the following year, he literally made the Mac a hub connected to a &#8220;spoke&#8221; &#8212; or cable &#8212; that was then connected to the iPod. For most of the last decade, the idea of the Mac working as a hub that side-loaded content to products like the iPod, iPhone and the iPad played itself out well, making it very easy for consumers to buy digital content and load it onto these devices. Over the past few years, Apple has refined this vision and starting making iCloud more of the hub to wirelessly organize content from its online stores to be downloaded directly to Apple products. While making the cloud the hub in this scenario is still the best way to think about this idea, it became pretty clear to me while at CES last week that in many ways, smartphones are really emerging as the hub of our digital lifestyles. Yes, smartphones are still connected to the cloud in terms of accessing data and transmitting information, but it seems to me that the smartphone in many ways is becoming the one device sitting at the center of our lives and working more like a hub in its own way. (MORE: Check out TIME Tech&#8217;s complete CES coverage) A good example of this is the role my smartphone plays in my connected car. My smartphone uses Bluetooth to connect to my car&#8217;s digital display, which has channels for music, data and voice. When a call comes in to me, the phone serves as the hub that connects to my car&#8217;s screen and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153587&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Guiding Principles for Understanding Apple&#8217;s TV Strategy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/17/four-guiding-principles-for-understanding-apples-tv-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predictions of Apple creating a TV set have been hot and heavy recently as people like web pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Piper Jaffray financial analyst Gene Munster, and many others have predicted that Apple will roll it out in 2013. And various reports from the supply chain in Taiwan and China have also suggested that Apple plans to bring out a TV soon. The fact is that until Apple releases whatever Apple TV device it has in the works, most of what is said about it from outsiders is pretty much speculation. However, I do believe that given Apple’s history with the current Apple TV box and its other Mac and iOS products, there are some guidelines we can use to help us think about what Apple might be doing around the reinvention of the TV. When Apple initially introduced the iPhone in 2007, I sat down with Phil Schiller, Apple&#8217;s senior VP of marketing. He showed me the iPhone and made what I consider a key statement about how Apple thinks about all of its products. In this meeting, he set the iPhone in the off position on a table and asked, &#8220;What do you see?&#8221; I said what I saw was a phone with a blank screen. He said, &#8220;That is exactly what we want you to see.&#8221; While he pointed out the iPhone&#8217;s design, he said that the real magic of the iPhone came in the software that makes the iPhone &#8220;sing and dance.&#8221; I had similar discussions with Steve Jobs after his return to Apple, and he echoed what Schiller told me at the iPhone launch: While Apple does hardware, the purpose of the hardware is really to showcase the genius of Apple’s software. With that in mind, here are four guiding principles that I believe Apple will use when creating whatever next-gen TV experience the company plans to deliver to customers in the future. An Apple TV will be personal. While Apple may create a physical TV, think of it as just another<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152659&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Betraying Physical Books: A Book Lover&#8217;s e-Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/03/a-book-lovers-e-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a very big fan of books. Over the years I have collected a library of close to 2,500 books of all kinds, with 300-plus dedicated to cooking and 200-plus focused on travel. I even have some first editions of Hemingway and Steinbeck favorites. And for decades, books were my travel companions on my many trips to Europe and Asia. In this regard, I am old school. I love the feel of the book and the tactile feel of turning a page. I can spend hours in an old used bookstore seeking out gems for my collection. I even enjoy the musty smell of these bookstores that house thousands of old books. And for many years, I would curl up by my fireplace in the living room and read for hours as I cradle a book in my hands. I pored over its text, and let my imagination run wild as I read the adventures of travel writer Paul Theroux. I read dozens of books on food literature and drooled as I tried to imagine the eating experiences being recorded by M.F.K. Fisher or, my favorite, Calvin Trillin in his Tummy Trilogy. Yet, when electronic books first came out, I embraced them wholeheartedly. In fact, I was one of the first to buy Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader the second it was available. And since then I have owned at least six or seven dedicated e-book readers and use the book apps on my iPad or Kindle Fire HD tablets all the time. Now I admit that when I first started reading books on an e-reader, I felt very guilty about turning my back on my physical books. But once I realized that the words on the pages of my hardcovers were the exact, same words on my e-reader, it made my move to e-books very easy. Interestingly, the main reason for my fast embracement of e-books was mostly related to travel. For 25 years, I would have to carry onto a plane a separate book bag along with my<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151623&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the iPad Mini Is a Disruptive Technology</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/19/why-the-ipad-mini-is-a-disruptive-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the iPad Mini has been out for a while and many of us at Creative Strategies have been testing them, it is becoming clear to us that this 7.9” form factor (or most 7” inch models) will become the most important tablets for consumers in the future. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the main one is that these tablets are light, thin and, in the iPad Mini’s case, deliver a best in breed tablet experience. Also, these smaller tablets will always be cheaper than larger tablets because the bill of material (BOM) cost for smaller versions will always be less than the bigger models. As I have personally used the iPad Mini for some time now, I have begun to see my usage patterns with tablets change significantly. Before the iPad Mini, the tablet I used the most was the full-size iPad. Although I also used my 7-inch Kindle Fire HD often for reading and media consumption, the iPad was my real go-to tablet device. And it became even more important to me once I added the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover to it: It&#8217;s now used for content consumption as well as productivity. However, there is an 80/20 rule that is becoming an important metric when it comes to tablets and PCs. It turns out most consumers can do about 80% of the most common tasks they do with a PC on a tablet, and any other key tasks, such as media management, large spreadsheets, music and video servers, and the like are designated to the computer. But once I started using the iPad Mini, I found that it became my go-to device because of its lightweight, small size and literal duplication of everything I have on the iPad. There is an interesting twist to this. When my only tablet was my iPad, I defaulted to my laptop for heavy lifting tasks. But once I started using the iPad Mini, I found myself defaulting to the 9.7” iPad with its keyboard as my main<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=150417&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the iPad Mini Is Priced at $329</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/05/why-the-ipad-mini-is-priced-at-329/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as Apple’s iPad Mini was announced with a price tag of $329, many journalists and bloggers started criticizing the price of this new, smaller iPad. They did so because there were rumors that it might be as low as $249 &#8212; they also hoped that it would at least be $299 or less. They believed that at a lower price it could take on tablets that are $199 or less, and that an all-out tablet war would erupt. When it was finally known that Apple came in a bit higher in price, it actually started clearing up a lot of confusion with consumers. In fact, Amazon said that immediately its orders increased for the Kindle Fire HD, which is priced at $199. Now consumers know that they have one class of mini tablets under $200 and a more upscale version from Apple at $329. Personally, I was not surprised by Apple’s pricing. In fact, if you have followed much of Apple’s history, you know that Apple often prices its first generation of a product at somewhat of a premium, and over time rides the pricing curve down. When the iPod first came out, the five-gigabyte model cost $399. Now look at iPod prices. It seems that a lot of the media don&#8217;t really understand the economics of Apple products, which almost always has them expecting Apple’s products to be priced closer to its competition. But while Apple is very aware of its competition, the company&#8217;s goal is to create the best product in its class, even if it has to be priced higher at first. The higher starting price for new Apple products is really an economic one. Apple is quite unique from most vendors since to manufacture its products, it sometimes has to actually invent the machines and manufacturing processes itself. This is in stark contrast to almost all competitors, who either take products from an ODM (original design manufacturer) that uses existing manufacturing equipment to make them, or use off-the-shelf products and rebrand them as their<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=149033&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Zappar, Augmented Reality Is Ready for Prime Time</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/22/with-zappar-augmented-reality-is-ready-for-prime-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, executives of a U.K. company called Zappar came to my office to show me their augmented reality technology. I have been looking into augmented reality for over a decade and have only seen false starts. But for the first time, I finally saw a technology and app infrastructure coming together that suggests to me that augmented reality is finally ready for prime time. I happened to be in London last week for meetings and met again with Casper Thykier, the Managing Director of Zappar and got an even more impressive demo of the technology. And perhaps more importantly, it brought me greater clarification about Zappar’s potential impact on games, movies, children’s books and advertising. By definition, augmented reality (AR) is a technology that lets a person view a real-life scene, ad, kids book, game or movie poster, for example, via their mobile device and then adds information to the device&#8217;s screen to make whatever the person is viewing come alive with additional content. The first time I saw it in action was when the folks at Verizon had partnered with a U.S. company working on AR. They showed me a magazine ad for a boot. When I activated the AR app on a smartphone and pointed it at the boot ad in the magazine, I could virtually lift the boot off the page and turn it 360 degrees or look at its bottom sole to get a sense of what that boot would look like in person. But the folks from Zappar take this idea to new levels. One demo they showed me was of a Roald Dahl’s children’s book that was Zappar-enabled. When you point your iOS or Android smartphone or tablet at a page in the book when using the Zappar viewing app, animated characters from the story pop onto the screen of the mobile device to “augment” the story line and experience. Or you can point it at a page that has black and white photos and the app colors them in. Or<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=146996&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Some 7-inch Tablets Will Eventually Be Given Away Free</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/08/why-some-7-inch-tablets-will-eventually-be-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do believe that we will have tablets in many price ranges and sizes that will still carry up-front costs for many years to come. But I also think that the 7-inch tablet form factor, serving as a window into a set of services or being offered as a part of a subscription, will become a significant part of the tablet market in the not-too-distant future.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147887&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why PC Companies Fear Amazon</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/24/why-pc-companies-fear-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon, like Apple, is totally rewriting the rules of the tech game. Amazon is content with making no margins on hardware, and getting profits on products and services that are purchased through its devices instead.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=144031&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Apple Could Own the Interactive TV Market</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/10/how-apple-could-own-the-interactive-tv-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many have predicted that Apple is making a full-blown TV set. While this is possible, I am in the camp that believes this is not Apple’s plan. I think the company has a more game-changing approach to creating the interactive TV of the future.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=145381&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Apple&#8217;s Win over Samsung Is Ultimately Good News for Consumers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/27/why-apples-win-over-samsung-is-ultimately-good-news-for-consumers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers should ultimately be the big winners from the Apple-Samsung patent case. Instead of stifling competition, this case should actually spur more creativity and give consumers an even broader range of innovative products to choose from in the future.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=142466&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Personal Computing: Cloud-Connected Screens Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/13/the-future-of-personal-computing-cloud-connected-screens-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are witnessing the greatest shakeup in the world of computing that has ever taken place. Instead of evolving the concept of personal computing, new form factors are actually ushering in an era of "personalized computing." <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141035&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 Ways Apple Sets Itself Apart from the Competition</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/30/3-things-that-set-apple-apart-from-the-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my notes from Apple's Mac unveiling in 1984, I wrote that the company clearly thought differently than the other PC vendors at the time. Little did I know that this “Think Different” theme would eventually become a major marketing campaign for Apple as it worked to set itself apart from the rest of the PC vendors.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=139309&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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