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iPad roundtable chat with Charlie Rose
Featuring David Carr from New York Times, Walt Mossberg from Wall Street Journal, and Michael Arrington from TechCrunch.
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Louie Mantia on sites with Flash
"If you have Flash content on the web, consider those people who can’t view your website, play your game, or watch your videos. Start building your websites without the assumption that people have a mouse and keyboard, because in a few years, we might not."
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Zaprudering the iPad interface
I'm actually suffering from a new syndrome called ToomuchiPadism but I'll allow one last post on the topic for a while because it's just too valuable not to share. And it allows me to butcher the English language by using the name Zapruder as a verb.
Fraser Speirs, developer of fine iPhoto plugins and an educator, decided to zapruder the photos and video presentations to make a point that the iPad works just fine as a content creation device. Along the way he produced something that is probably more valuable to those who are already planning to develop their iPad apps. Browse through this set of photos on Flickr.
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One Week App
An iPhone app developer in SIngapore is making an app in one week and you can follow his every move. Begins Sunday, February 7, SGT.
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Microsoft responds to Dick Brass
Nothing in that blog post dispute the claim that Microsoft is a collection of divided divisions.
Money quote:
"There is always the opportunity to do more, to move faster, to bring products and services to the world in new and interesting ways, and we embrace this"
That is best responded by this image:
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Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator
Some really good insight into Microsoft by Dick Brass, a former Microsoft Vice President, on the New York Times. Unfortunately he had to remind us all about that wiggle at the end of Microsoft's Seinfeld ad.
Some choice quotes:
"Microsoft has lost share in Web browsers, high-end laptops and smartphones. Despite billions in investment, its Xbox line is still at best an equal contender in the game console business. It first ignored and then stumbled in personal music players until that business was locked up by Apple"
As if this needs to be said, instead of a bike or a car, Microsoft is a ten ton truck.
"When we were building the tablet PC in 2001, the vice president in charge of Office at the time decided he didn’t like the concept. The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow."
John Gruber put his two cents the other day. Imagine if the head of the iWork division at Apple refuses to adapt the software for the iPad.
PS. That's one heck of a name, Dick Brass.
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Is the iPad One Gadget Too Many?
“The last decade was defined by mass adoption,” says Sean Dubravac, the association’s director of research. “We loaded up. The next decade will be defined by refinement and a refocus on usability and functionality.”- The Jakarta Globe
How many gadgets do you own?
I've got my MacBook, iPhone, and a SonyEricsson K810.
Considering the iPad to possibly replace my MacBook as my primary portable device, leaving the notebook as a home or office appliance. Another gadget in the pipeline is a compact camera, perhaps a Canon G series model but it's not a priority.
I like to keep things minimal and portable. As it stands my bag is already too full carrying the accessories including a portable drive, power adapter, firewire and usb cables, a couple of flash drives, books, papers, sample products for review, flashlight for emergencies, etc.
Having just the phones and the iPad would reduce the clutter that I carry on most days. A big plus is the lack of weight. The MacBook is about 2.3 Kg while the iPad is only 0.68 Kg. That's a whole lot of weight off.
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The Economist on Apple's innovation
"Rather than developing entirely new product categories, [Apple] excels at taking existing, half-baked ideas and showing the rest of the world how to do them properly." - The Economist
This statement was clearly demonstrated by the iPod in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007. Both devices turned their respective industries upside down and gave them each a different perspective into how the market view their portable devices. The iPad looks to continue that tradition.
While Kindle is currently the most popular electronic book reader in the market, its situation today is not too different compared to the Motorola Razr before the iPhone came along. If the way the ebook reader/mobile internet device industry moves parallels that of the phone industry, Amazon may need to come up with its Droid soon instead of relying on special edition gimmicks like Motorola did.
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Daring Fireball with Comments
Not sure how long this will last but this is genius. Pop here for the original Daring Fireball. My guess is it began as a prank response to this post on DF about Engadget shutting down comments temporarily.
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