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Move to Paperless Board Meetings Delayed Due to iPad 2 Shortages

April 5, 2011

FT.com: “In the UK the only tablet businesses want to view their board papers on right now is the iPad 2,” says Simon Small, Diligent Boardbooks’ managing director for licensing in Europe. “Almost all of large organisations are now requesting their board papers on the iPad. The big problem Apple faces in the short term [...]

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iPad as Digital Whiteboard

April 4, 2011

Fraser Speirs: So, what does iPad + Penultimate + AluPen get you? It gets you a digital whiteboard with infinite pages and undo. The beauty of this is that you get to keep every whiteboard you draw during the lesson. You can flip between whiteboards and go forward and backwards and insert new pages in [...]

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Steve Jobs on Android Fragmentation

April 1, 2011

Looks like Steve Jobs was right, again: While Google has maintained that Android is open, rival Apple and its chief executive, Steve Jobs, have taken issue with Google’s use of the word. In a surprise appearance on his company’s quarterly earnings call last October, Jobs criticized the growing fragmentation of Android, and called Google’s characterization [...]

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Andy Rubin, Vic Gundotra, Eric Schmidt – Shameless, Lying Hypocrites, All Of Them

April 1, 2011

John Gruber, making a point: So here’s the Android bait-and-switch laid bare. Android was “open” only until it became popular and handset makers dependent upon it. Now that Google has the handset makers by the balls, Android is no longer open and Google starts asserting control. … and: “Vic Gundotra’s Paean to Android’s Openness at [...]

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The Fine Art Of Predicting iPhone Sales

March 31, 2011

Horace Dediu of Asymco shows you how.

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Why Attend WWDC If You’re Already An Experienced Apple Developer?

March 31, 2011

Brad Larson: Simple questions can be answered by reading the appropriate documentation, viewing videos, or consulting resources like Stack Overflow, but the more complex issues that experienced developers run into sometimes can only be solved with help from the Apple engineers. I prepare questions for months in advance of the show, and usually have all [...]

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Two Ways Apple Beat Acer

March 31, 2011

Hamranhansenhansen: Ultimately, Apple humiliated Acer from both sides: Out-mobiled — iPad is the cheap, simple, mobile computer the netbook wasn’t. Out-performed — MacBook Air 11-inch is the tiny but full-powered computer the netbook wasn’t.

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Who Disrupted Whom?

March 31, 2011

Horace Dediu of Asymco: Today Acer CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci resigned with immediate effect. Acer is in trouble. You can read more on Acer’s current problems in the wake of the downward revision of its sales targets for two quarters here: Acer Should Overhaul Its Operation: Stan Shih | CENS.com – The Taiwan Economic [...]

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One Way The iPad Is A Paradigm Shift

March 31, 2011

Granmastak: The iPad paradigm shift is this: our kids, parents and even grandparents can use this thing with no training. Windows on the other hand? It took a year for the old lady down the street to understand defrag and even scroll bars or minimized vs closed applications. She could use an iPad in 5 [...]

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