Posts Tagged ‘iPad’
Techcrunch has a nice comparison today between the new Kindle DX from Amazon and Apple’s iPad, nicely indicating what most will have already noticed: that the two look rather alike (similar colour options, same screen size etc). The TC post concludes that Amazon are clearly not afraid to mix it up and re-vamp their products to try something new when things aren’t working and, indeed, this seems to be exactly the idea behind the strategy of introducing a significant price cut to avoid attempting to compete with the iPad on price.
This seems pretty smart, since the Kindle could never win that battle (its screen is neither colour, nor touchscreen to name just a couple of inferior qualities compared with the iPad),…
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There’s some interesting new data available from Forrester Research today, predicting the development of the computer market over the next five years, covering pc’s, laptops, netbooks and tablet computers. For those who have been following the tremendous success of Apple’s iPad, Forrester’s forecast that such devices will, in five years’ time, occupy roughly a quarter of the market will come as no surprise.
However, perhaps more intriguing is Forrester’s breakdown of the market by 2015, which suggests that most of the tablet share will actually come at the expense of desktop pc – and not the other two portable devices (notebooks and netbooks) with which one might assume it was in direct competition with.
Whatever happens, I expect web developers will be following…
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With Apple announcing that its iPad tablet computer will be delayed on its international release until May due to high demand, it seems that keen would-be purchasers of this new gadget will have a little spare time on their hands for now…
Well, worry not ladies and gentlemen! To satiate your desires, at least for a few minutes, I now present a general round-up of what’s going on in relation to this headline-hogging mega high-profile device, which somehow continues to entertain (even before anyone has one) simply by its endless ability to generate news items (some of which are rather bizarre).
Take for example the recent advert for Blendtec (which can be found on Youtube) in which an Apple iPad is rather cleverly employed…
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After the weeks of hype, excitement and speculation, we now finally know just what the Apple tablet computer will look like, cost, and do – and what it will be called (the iPad). However, perhaps unsurprisingly after all the ridiculous build-up, it has not lived up to the expectations of many bloggers, with the general consensus being that it is somewhat of a larger iPhone.
Well I suppose it’s only inevitable that the actual thing can’t live up to such overblown fantastical expectations, and while many in the ‘blogosphere’ contemplate a ‘failure’ for Apple, I must say that I’m more inclined to side with Stephen Fry on this one when he highlights that a similar response has met most of Apple’s recent launches (including the iPhone) –…
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