From the monthly archives:

August 2011

“Why have a Chromebook if Android runs Chrome?”

August 31, 2011

Jason Perlow asks a pertinent question: It’s important to note that if we had the Chrome browser on an Android tablet, why would we want a Chromebook? For the price of a Chromebook you could pick up an Android tablet with a keyboard that connects via dock or bluetooth. You would have the same functionality, [...]

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Why can’t anyone match the iPad?

August 28, 2011

To put it simply no one can match the iPad because no one can match Apple’s prices with a tablet that matches its features: When better equipped (though bulkier) netbooks can be had for $250, tablet-makers need to set their sights below $200. There is just one problem: the cost of the components currently used [...]

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Google TV, coming to the UK next year

August 28, 2011

Reuters: Google TV, which allows viewers to mix Web and television content on TV screens via a browser, has received lukewarm reviews and been blocked by the major U.S. networks since its launch in the United States in October. Schmidt told the Edinburgh television festival its lack of success so far was partly because it [...]

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More on what Google means by evil

August 24, 2011

John Gruber thinks that What Google means by evil is too lofty, because: Search results are worse with ads than without. This certainly isn’t true in my experience: sometimes, the ads provide a better link than the first page of Google’s results, because the relevance algorithms which determine what ads are surfaced are really rather [...]

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Why “Sell The Blades, Give Away The Razor” isn’t always a Great Tech Business Model

August 23, 2011

John Gruber, responding to Michael Arrington‘s ideas about what HP should do next: Note: that’s $1.4 billion in revenues, not profits. And that includes the music side, which is over 10 years old. And further note that Apple doesn’t mention profits from the iTunes Store at all. If they were making big bank, Apple would brag [...]

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Google Data Explorer: Why doesn’t Google make more of this stuff?

August 23, 2011

One of the things which you notice watching Google is that they make a lot of stuff. A huge amount of stuff, in fact. And a lot of the time, they don’t really shout about it much. Take this: Isn’t that just brilliant? I can think of a hundred applications of this – and then some.

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Do Not Track and “Don’t be evil”

August 22, 2011

Aaron Swartz has written a really excellent post on what Google means by “Don’t be evil”. His conclusion is that in essence, it means “don’t make things worse for your users simply to make money”. In the conversation, Chris Soghoian pointed to Google’s refusal to implement Do-Not-Track on its browsers or servers as a violation [...]

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Come on Lenovo, you can do better than this

August 22, 2011

It’s not even out yet, and already the Lenovo IdeaPad — the Chinese manufacturer’s attempt to crack the tablet market — is getting something of a savaging: The IdeaPad K1 has been in development in one form or another for a year and a half, yet it still isn’t ready. And even if it had [...]

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