Tablets
Apparently the new iPad’s supposed overheating problem didn’t bother Consumer Reports too much: The organization put it at the top of its tablet ratings.
I was having a discussion with a few executives at a technology summit I was attending and an interesting question was asked to me concerning what America would look like without Apple. The more I thought about it, the more interesting the question became
According to the Wall Street Journal’s always helpful “people familiar with the matter,” Google is planning to open its own online store to sell co-branded tablet computers.
Today only, Amazon is selling refurbished 7-inch Kindle Fire tablets for $139. That’s a good deal considering new versions cost $199, and these refurbished units carry the same one-year warranty as the new models.
One year ago, a pair of Boeing engineers decided to revive the spirit of a dead Microsoft project called Courier, but as an iPad app. They named this project “Taposé,” and began a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for development. This week, Taposé launched in the iOS App Store for $2.99.
The China Quality Certification Center has given the green light for Apple to sell the Wi-Fi version of its new iPad.
I don’t claim to understand for sure why the Android tablet app situation remains so depressing. But I do have some theories. Nine of them, actually.
At the new iPad launch, Tim Cook took time out from saying glowing things about Apple products to say something critical about Android tablets: Many apps available for them feel like nothing more than smartphone software that’s been stretched to fill a larger screen. It’s a fair criticism. But there are also some iPad apps that have the same too-much-white-space design.
The best way to predict the future, as Alan Kay famously said, is to invent it. For decades, however, major American corporations have tried another approach: filming it.
Intel and its partners are about to launch the biggest promotion of a new product category called Ultrabooks since the company’s Wi-Fi based Centrino launch early last decade. And Microsoft is about to launch a major update to Windows called Windows 8 that introduces the new “Metro” touch user interface. Together they are critical products for the future of each company individually.
The new iPad’s been in the media crosshairs all week for alleged battery-related problems. And now Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, is claiming in a detailed review that Apple’s newest tablet isn’t being entirely honest with us when the battery charge display shows “100%.”
