Category Archives: iPad

Circus Ponies Notebook: Expensive, but feature-rich, notetaking for iPad

I’m only slightly obsessive about note taking applications. I actually use more than one at once – DEVONthink for organising notes around projects, Evernote for filing just about everything else. One of the ones that I’ve used in the past … Continue reading

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Oh, the irony: Chrome OS “no good for making stuff”

Joel Mathis taking a look at Chrome OS: “If you want to make stuff, in other words, the cloud isn’t quite ready for you—and that means Chrome OS isn’t quite ready for you, either. Will it be when (and if) Chrome … Continue reading

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Just how bad is Flash on Android?

Pretty bad. In fact, if you’re thinking video, utterly unusable. Kevin Tofel of GigaOm and JKOnTheRun is someone who isn’t a dyed in the wool iPhone or Apple fan. In fact, he replaced his iPhone with a Nexus One in … Continue reading

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iPads only selling to the Apple faithful? Only if you count anyone with an iPod as “the faithful”

In search of a headline, Marketing Magazine cites a YouGov survey as showing that the iPad is only “reaching out to the converted“: “In the two months since the iPad launched in the UK, YouGov has found that 96% of … Continue reading

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Turns out that making an “iPad killer” isn’t so easy after all

It’s three months since the launch of the iPad, and the much-heralded “Android iPad killers” are somewhat thin on the ground. HTC, probably the best Android hardware company around, isn’t making one. Neofonie’s WePad isn’t just missing in action – … Continue reading

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Why Apple doesn’t want Flash on iOS

If you want to know why Apple wants Flash kept away from iOS, you should ask Palm: Adobe hasn’t given any signs that it’s close to porting Flash to webOS, Palm said in an AT&T online app development seminar on … Continue reading

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Why you should take reports of an iPhone on Verizon with a pinch of salt

Remember this report about how the iPad was a cert for Verizon?: “The tablet will be supported by multiple [mobile] carriers,” said Brian Marshall of Broadpoint AmTech, citing unnamed sources he said were close to the situation. “Verizon and others,” … Continue reading

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Why market research makes for bad products

Image by Softly, Softly via Flickr Market research often falls down on one simple flaw: if you ask consumers what features they want before you show them a product, it’s almost never in line with what they end up buying: … Continue reading

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Is the iPhone 4 micro SIM really “not compatible” with iPad?

According to T3, the iPhone 4 micro SIM is “not compatible” with iPad, dashing the hopes of those who want swap SIMs around: “The plan, had this not been the case, would have been to buy a 3G iPad but … Continue reading

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Karma, indeed

Dan Wineman: “Gray Powell will be forever known as the guy who lost the iPhone, thanks to Jesus Diaz. But now Jesus Diaz will be forever known as the guy who calls himself a technology reporter, yet had an iPhone … Continue reading

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