Posted in Video, iPad on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
The iPad is a natural for these kinds of books and activities. This is a mock up of some ideas for interactive books and learning tools for the iPad. Great stuff.
[via Sanford Shapiro]
Posted in Art and Design, Tech Stuff, iPad on Mar 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’
Fantastic, and if they can build it, people will come.
This mock up reminds me of Apple’s concept movie of a future Knowledge Navigator done in 1987. More on the history of Apple’s project here.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software, iPad on Feb 16th, 2010 6 Comments »
Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad?
The New York Times has never gotten it right, ever. They have the best news in the business and the best brand and they cannot seem to figure out how to get money out of users.
It’s simple: do what Salon does. Charge a yearly [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad on Feb 6th, 2010 4 Comments »
Apple’s iPad
Michael Arrington, Walter Mossberg, and David Carr discuss Apple’s new iPad on the Charlie Rose show.
Mossberg is brilliant but all of them, including him, miss the idea that it’s not just the form factor that’s a game changer, it’s the simplicity. The iPad is may be the first computer appliance and while that’s not [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad on Feb 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
Former Microsoft employee Dick Brass on how the company has failed to innovate over the years.
Some of us have seen this pattern brewing at Microsoft for years. Couple this with the idea that the release of Apple’s iPad seems to be less about hardware, more about a statement that some (maybe many) users [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Politics, iPad on Feb 1st, 2010 2 Comments »
Why are you so terribly disappointing?
I calculate it took about seven minutes, give or take, after Steve Jobs finished introducing the shinypretty iPad before the whiny attacks on the wondergizmo began flooding in, how it didn’t have this or that expected feature, how it can’t do live video chat, doesn’t have Flash, the bezel is [...]
Posted in Reading, Tech Stuff, iPad on Feb 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple’s iBookstore
[EPUB is] a free and open standard format created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and it’s designed for reflowable content that can be optimized to whatever device is being used to read a book file. The IDPF has championed EPUB as a single format that [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, iPad on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Steven Frank on the iPad
Steven takes us through a short history of computing explaining why some of us have a hard time making these leaps when companies like Apple come out with products that make large leaps rather than small incremental steps. Beautifully reasoned and written.
Posted in Opinion, People, iPad on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense
Andy Inhatko’s first impressions of the iPad.
…the release of the iPad marks a classic battle between two philosophies:
Is it better to have a device that is loaded with bullet-pointable features?
Or is it better to have a device that has a shorter list of specs … but [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, People, iPad, iPhone on Jan 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism
Steve Lohr has written an excellent piece discussing the back story on how Jobs thinks and works.
…Apple products are known for being stylish, powerful and pleasing to use. They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out — not cramming every feature that came into [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, iPad on Jan 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
With the Push of the iPad, a Photograph Goes Global
Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo by Richard Misrach is one of the included desktop photos on the iPad and it was used during the iPad introduction event. It’s a spectacular image and no doubt Apple went through many to get to this one. Congratulations [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Macintosh, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad, iPhone on Jan 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller demonstrates the new iWork application on iPad including the use of multi-touch gestures for getting things done without a mouse.
This is a clip from the iPad unveiling which can be watched in its entirety here.
Posted in Events, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad, iPhone on Jan 28th, 2010 44 Comments »
I’ve been watching various reactions to Apple’s new iPad and it amazes me that people don’t learn from history that Steve Jobs is a visionary and visionaries take larger steps than the rest of us. This is one of the many things I admire about Jobs and Apple. Not all of these steps work out [...]
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