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Why Microsoft is right to hold off on a tablet

January 13, 2011

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Joe Wilcox, Betanews: “Ballmer was right not to make any major tablet announcement, showing off something that wasn’t ready. Any zealous tablet push would have led to bloggers, journalists and Wall Street analysts making iPad comparisons. By staying away from Apple and iPad, Ballmer kept the message pure, which [...]

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Today’s Apple Tablet dumbness: Step forward, The Apple Blog

January 8, 2010

How to put this? Oh yes, “the stupid, it burns”. Liam Cassidy has used his magical gift of clairvoyance and decided that a product about which no one knows any concrete details is better than a product which has been publicly demo’d for 30 seconds. And he’s managed to write 845 words of detailed analysis [...]

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Idiot post of the day

January 6, 2010

Sadly, because I generally enjoy his writing, it’s from Robert Cringely: “iPhone and Android will be here for the long haul with the question being which of Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry will die?” Answer: None of them. There are more than 1.25 billion phones sold every year. Even a 1% market share would [...]

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2009: The year tech blogging died

December 22, 2009

Most years are full of idiocy. But I think I can make a decent case for this year being the worst on record, at least from the perspective of writing about technology. This was the year when tech writing plumbed new depths of stupidity, repetition, and sheer unadulterated circle jerking. It was the year when [...]

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Apple Tablet sighted in the wild?

December 20, 2009

Apple’s Tablet sighted in the wild? It has been if this post is to be believed: “I have no less than 5 sources saying an Apple Tablet announcement is due soon. Or something, as some of these press people (Apple diehards at that), who normally cared not about Tablets, and thought it was all just Microsoft vaporware, are suddenly [...]

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