About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I’ve never found myself struggling which to pick, much in the same way that nobody is ever torn between having tea and going sky diving. They are different devices, for different purposes…With the Kindle, you won’t be thinking about increasing your Fruit Ninja high score, or frantically checking and re-checking your e-mail. You’ll be in …
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Somewhere around 2004, I remember writing a post [1] about how I saw the need for more ‘internet-enabled’ applications. Essentially – software applications native to a desktop or laptop computer that sends and receives internet-based data. A simple example of this in the Mac world is Mail.app, or Adium, or Tweetie. At the time I …
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Inputing anything on the iPad more complex than – ‘I want that’ – is frustrating, even moreso with the keyboard. The thought of taking notes on the iPad during meetings is still ridiculous. And I started wondering how people quickly took notes before we all became such proficient touch typists. The idea of a single …
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Update 26 May 2010. Video proof of my position. iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. The keyboard + dock for my iPad arrived today – which marks what I’m considering the start of my actual evaluation of the device’s strengths. The Apple iPad is quite comfortable in the dock, and both sit quite …
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My iPad arrived on Saturday, and as I mentioned in my iPad Prediction post – the Apple iPad does feel like the third attempt at Apple TV. And like all third installments of sequels – it continually risks becoming a parody of itself. Since the iPad is a member of the iPod family of products …
When the first rumors of the iPad began circulating – I immediately dismissed them on the grounds it wasn’t clear to me how a tablet fit into Apple’s deliberately simple product line. I’m still not convinced it does. It could be argued there’s enough space between the iPod Touch and the Mac Book for another …
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