Posted by Greg MIlls
The last year has seen the launch, crash and burn of the supposed iPad killers cheerfully announced at recent trade shows. There were, by some counts, as many as 100 touchscreen iPad wannabe contenders presented in one show alone. Prototypes and actual production units are not the same thing. Mock-ups are not that hard to produce and a lot of the concept tablets were just glass and painted Bondo.
Read MoreAccording to a Japanese site, Macotakara — as reported by as noted by Cult of Mac” (http://macte.ch/MUg3C) — Apple is planning to create new Macs that are “absolutely different from current products” with a debut “as early as the end of the year.” Not likely.
There have been rumors before that Apple has tested MacBook Airs running the iPad 2′s A5 CPU (central processing unit). I don’t doubt that, though I suspect it’s more of an experiment with an eye toward a long-term future.
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Apple has been granted three patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.
Read MoreAffinity’s American Magazine Study (http://www.affinityresearch.net/) reports that there are distinct generational skews in the profiles of eReader, tablet computer and smartphone owners.
For established technology products like computers, U.S. penetration is high and usage is considered mainstream. For example, 84% of American adults currently own at least one computer according to AMS.
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Posted by Greg Mills
The Great HP Train Wreck, Mikey likes it, Michel Dell that is. The immediate stock market reaction to the HP implosion was that HP stock went down 20% and Dell went up 7%. The gut reaction of the market to the HP reorganization was sort of as if HP had done the seppuku ceremony where the ancient Japanese publicly cut their own belly open with a sharp knife. A gory, painful and dramatic way to die, indeed, but it sure makes a statement. The age of the PC is over, long live iPad, to paraphrase Steve Jobs.
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