The Motorola Xoom is not selling as well as the iPad! While the Xoom figure is much higher than the 100,000 estimated by one analyst, its performance is considered disappointing given the emphasis both Google and Motorola placed on it as the iPad-defeating Android 3.0 flagship, up to and including a Super Bowl ad. At [...]
From Morningstar, “Deutsche Bank Puts Motorola Xoom Sales At 100,000 … 100k units after only two months on the market is a decent start” “Decent” is a curious word, “compared with 300,000 iPads sold on the first day it was available”. Motorola rather failed their launch, omitting Flash (one thing that really can distinguish other [...]
Visit MacWorld to read some iPad 2 speed test comparisons, against both iPad and iPhone … … iPad 2 took 45 seconds to import 20 raw images from an SD card, much faster than the original iPad, which took 63 seconds … … iMovie imported a 76-second clip from my iPhoto library, applied transitions, added [...]
From IT Pro Portal: While Apple is expected to sell more than 40 million iPads in 2011, Motorola is expected to sell between three and five million units in 2011 Read the rest of the article here.
Michael deAgonia’s opinions of the new iPad 2 over on COMPUTER WORLD are interesting, though possibly extreme – who knows what computing will be in another 3-5 years?! … The aluminum at the edge of the screen flows into the flat back, but it’s hard to describe the graceful physical design. There’s no side lip [...]
IFixit has already opened up an iPad 2! Visit iFixit to see lots more pictures and descriptions.
This MacWorld article”Eleven things we’d like to see in the next iPad” is worth reading, prior to Wednesday’s no-doubt-iPad-2 announcements from Apple … Personally, I expect to see the next iPad to have both front and rear cameras, and a little less weight; like the iPhone 4 it will surely also have a faster processor [...]
Of course! … There’s just no denying the influence Apple’s tablet had on the industry this year … Head over to Engadget to read the rest of their list
I can’t really see how Apple could possibly ship 40,000,000 iPads this year, but some people have predicted that, according to DigiTimes; however I hope their other prediction does come true, for increased screen resolution: … Apple is increasing iPad 2′s resolution to 2048 by 1536 … In 2011, Apple’s iPad series should be able [...]
A great comic here: (from Geek And Poke)
I really don’t think the Samsung tablet will significantly impact Apples iPad – without a contract it’s basically the same price, offering a smaller screen but camera/video and being Android based. Some people surely will prefer it, but the iPad has huge momentum already as we approach the end of 2010. However, I think this [...]
An article on CNET discussing why Intel and Microsoft are “ignoring” the tablet market even though it’s forecast to reach 20% of notebook sales, refers to whether people will purchase an ipad instead of a notebook … Short-term purchase cannibalization. That is, I walk into Best Buy with $500, and what do I walk out [...]
Check out The Engadget preview of iOS 4.2 on the iPad, showing folders and discussing other enhancements like multi-tasking And AirPrint … The addition of multitasking, folders, and big improvements in mail (amongst other things) finally make the device feel more like a computer and less like a gigantic iPhone … we’re impressed to see [...]
How long before this is true for iPad owners? … from The Oatmeal – visit to see the rest of the story!
Of course you can run most of the 200,000+ iPhone Apps in the App store (like Skype), but it’s better to have the App configured to run full-size on the iPad – PadGadget announces there are now more than 10,000 iPad or iPad+iPhone Apps to choose from, with the chart suggesting more coming all the [...]
When I got my iPad back in early April, I was amazed that it was unusable until it was connected to a computer running iTunes! Today on Gizmodo Matt Buchanan discusses the same issue: A minute after I pull any Android phone out of the box for the very first time, it’s loaded with all [...]
I’m not sure how much the “concept tablet” would have been like today’s iPad, if the iPhone hadn’t already existed (the App store, for example, is critical to the success of the iPad) – but it’s interesting to read Steve Job’s comments: “I’ll tell you a secret. It actually started with the tablet first,” Jobs [...]
An interesting read over on Bart Busschots’ website: I’ve been saying for a long time that the iPad looks cool, but that I wouldn’t be buying this first incarnation of apple’s tablet … but I do now own [which he was given, not purchased] I absolutely hate to say this, but there really is something [...]
News coverage all over, but I liked this Bloomberg / Business week article: Apple IPad Outshines Mona Lisa Hundreds queued up at the Apple store in the Carrousel du Louvre shopping center in the museum complex … “I tried to buy one in Seattle when I was there, but they were sold out; so waited [...]
It sounds unlikely, but Apple Insider reports on a claim that Apple are selling loads of iPads – maybe to the detriment of Mac sales! Also claimed is a total of 8 MILLION iPad sales for the year; an amazing number if true, we will have to wait for official news from Apple to see [...]
With the iPad available in England and Europe in just a couple of weeks, a Guardian article discusses whether or not to buy, with an English twist: If you already own an iPhone or an iPod Touch and wish it had a much bigger screen, the answer is probably yes – if you can afford [...]
Not really, but some of the ideas put forward in TABLET: THE PERSONAL COMPUTER OF THE YEAR 2000 (via PC World) are surprisingly relevant to the iPad today: Any design represents a compromise between conflicting goals, and the design of the computer of the year 2000 is no exception. We seek something which fits comfortably [...]
A fascinating article at Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, reviewing the weird, wonderful and inconsistent ways that Apps are creating user interfaces – I hopes such articles are “heard” by App authors, and Apps to come work more obviously! In different apps, touching a picture could produce any of the following 5 results: Nothing, Enlarging the picture, [...]
A nice discussion at PC World as to how long 250MB of 3G data from AT&T actually lasts – the answer, if you use your iPad as usual, with WiFi disabled … 3 days! … even just Web browsing can eat up bandwidth fast … Facebook is usually 1 to 2MB … GelaSkins.com’s online store [...]
The first one million, I guess … “One million iPads in 28 days — that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in a statement released Monday. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into [...]
First thoughts coming in from various websites – of course basically it’s just a regular iPad but with the ability to get data when it’s away from WiFi. Gizmodo offers some comparison measurements – on 3G the iPad is of course slower than on WiFi, and about the same speed as an iPhone 3GS. Gizmodo [...]
While the iPad stop-motion disassembly is perhaps the best way to see inside your iPad, this X-ray image is pretty cool (from miya sei via TUAW) Other “inside the iPad” articles worth checking out include: Chipworks teardown iFixit teardown Electronic Design summary
From the Seattle Times: IDC estimates about 2.5 million e-readers were sold in 2009, and that number is expected to double to 5.1 million this year. Barnes & Noble said it plans to roll out a software update for the Nook that will let users surf the Web and play games. While the iPad is [...]
I’m a strong believer that the iPad will bring the Internet to a new group of people, that had no interest in dealing with the hassles of multiple box computers with their mysterious cabling, installation complexities, anti-virus, etc, etc … built on the capabilities of the iPhone OS and the App Store, the iPad eliminates [...]
I don’t buy into the iPad as a laptop replacement—not quite. But it is fantastic at tapping into your computers to access video and audio, documents, and even your full desktop, remotely. Here’s how. GIZMODO discusses Air Video, StreamToMe, GoodReader, Mocha VNC Lite and Desktop Connect. I’ve used VNC Lite, but it can’t handle the [...]
This Computerworld article closely echoes my own sentiments about the iPad, and it’s use by non-tech people: … When I got my iPad, I immediately installed several software packages on it … Each installation was simple: I ran the App Store application, found the tools I wanted, and clicked the purchase icon. Within moments, each [...]
Citing “heavy demand and swift sales after its launch in the United States“, Apple has announced that international availability of the iPad will be delayed another month, to the end of May! Visit Reuters for the full story.
You can head over to MacWorld, and read why the iPad is not for Ben Long, or for much more hilarious entertainment, listen to Ben reading the article! Note: Contrary to Ben’s opinions, this was written via the web interface of WordPress, on the iPad. It was easy to do, except that due to some [...]
Of course I’d say “yes”, but USA TODAY offers a well written cross-section of positive and negative opinions (although once again, the negatives come from folks who have not used an iPad): … The iPad will absolutely change the way people kill time in back seats, airports and 747s on their family vacations … … [...]
The big news today is Apple’s iPhone OS 4, which presumably will also be iPad OS 4 … but rolled in with those announcements (visit Engadget here for a live feed) is details of the first five days of iPad sales in USA: Update … oh, Apple has said now … iPad does not get [...]
I can’t understand why it is a surprise to some people, that the cost of the components in the Apple iPad is significantly less than the final product price … A Bloomberg report indicates that iSuppli Corp estimate the 16GB WiFi only iPad parts build cost at close to half the final price. Materials for [...]
A great read, from Gizmodo: To call the iPad a big iPhone is both truth and disservice, belying the simple fact that changing the screen size really does change everything … One of the ways it’s fundamentally different from the iPhone is that the interface and software are now truly designed to be used equally [...]
Whenever a new gadget appears, there’s always some need to post “unboxing”, showing pictures of the box, contents, gadget, etc. But this video (linked from TUAW), is a beautiful alternative – a stop-motion “self unboxing” created by Brian Stark: iPad – Unboxing Video from Brian Stark on Vimeo. (sadly it uses Flash, but iPhone/iPad users [...]
