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It’s all about discovery

October 22, 2011

The biggest problem online since the turn of the Century has been that it’s really hard to discover new stuff. Not find stuff: discovery isn’t the same thing. If I know roughly what I want, Google makes it easy to find. But finding things that I might like that I don’t know about yet? Much [...]

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iPad market share rises

September 14, 2011

So much for the iPad killers: Apple managed to gain market share in tablets at the very time that many of its new competitors were supposed to be taking that share away, IDC said Wednesday. Having full access to data from the past spring, it found that the iPad had gained share, moving up from [...]

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Review: Logitech Keyboard Case for iPad 2

September 4, 2011

Make no mistake about it: the iPad’s on-screen keyboard is actually very good. You can easily rattle off a quick email or tweet with it, and some more proficient users have been known to write several hundred words without their fingers falling off. But not everyone gets on with it, and if you’re a professional [...]

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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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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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What the huge sales of the $99 TouchPad tells us about iPad and the future of tablets

August 22, 2011

Nothing.

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How Apple could fix Final Cut Pro X, in 187 words

June 27, 2011

Write a letter. “Dear Final Cut Pro customers, As you know, we’ve just released Final Cut Pro X. We’re really proud of it. It represents the future of what’s become the most important piece of software for professional video. There are features in it — like the magnetic timeline — that we think you’ll love, [...]

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Windows 8, iOS and that weird post by Aaron Holsgrove

June 14, 2011

Other people have picked apart Aaron Holsgrove’s post on “Why Windows 8 is not fundamentally flawed as a response to the iPad“, but I think it’s worth going over more. It’s a catalogue of mistakes, which would keep the average commentator going for days. Take this, for example: If Apple never released the iPhone, we’d [...]

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My final word on the whole “Macs don’t get viruses” thing

May 26, 2011

It’s something you hear all the time when you read forums and comments. Someone talks about malware and instead of saying malware, they say “virus”. And someone pops up to reply “Macs can’t get viruses. Mac Defender isn’t a virus – it’s a trojan“. And it’s true: There isn’t a self-replicating infectious programme for the [...]

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