When I first heard the story of the New iPad heating up excessively, my first thought was: another plant by Apple haters. But then I thought more about it, and actually there may be something to that story after all – but it’s not what the Apple haters want you to think.
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Christmas is all about tablets and e-readers
Everywhere you look these days, you see ads and reviews for the various tablets and e-readers available in the marketplace today. Several companies, such as Telus and Rogers, have even begun offering free tablets (Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1) with their services.
Way too early to write off post-Jobs Apple
In my latest column for The Prince Arthur Herald, I explain why it’s wrong to write off Apple after Steve Jobs’ passing away.
RIP Steve Jobs
I think therefore iPad.
Thank you, Steve! You’ll be missed.
Amazon, unlike Apple, disrespects Canadians
All the Canadian news sources have reported about Amazon’s new tablet, the Kindle Fire. But what all those reports fail to mention is that the tablet won’t be available to Canadians. In fact, it may never be released anywhere outside of the United States.
A brave new world for tablet and other tech consumers
When HP first announced its TouchPad, I was taken aback by how similar it looked to Apple’s iPad. I therefore quickly suggested that Apple should sue HP. Apple didn’t do that, because it became clear early enough that the TouchPad wouldn’t be real competition. It was, in fact, a very cheap and lousy knock-off, which HP has now pulled off the market.
A prediction about tablet computers in 2016? Really?
A few days ago, I noticed a story that made its rounds through all the various news outlets: Android tablets will outsell iPads in 2016, with the iPad seeing its market share reduced to around 30%. Honestly, no matter which system you favour, but this is one of the silliest predictions anyone could ever make. Even sillier: those who actually believe it.
The app wars have started
The e-book apps Kobo and Kindle both released new updated apps for the iPad over the last 24 hours. In each case, the biggest “innovation” was the removal of the integrated shop. Under new App Store rules, digital content, such as e-books, must be purchased through Apple’s App Store, and providers like Amazon or Kobo are therefore not allowed to offer users a shop that would allow them to purchase content from outside the App Store.
Financial Times attempting an end run around Apple
A day after the big Apple announcements coming out of San Francisco, one major newspaper publisher has decided to declare war on Apple and its app policy for the iPad.
Troubles for Google and Apple
After the fiasco Amazon recently went through when its cloud servers crashed and left many users and clients hanging, it now seems Google’s turn on the carousel of bad news.
Canadians should support RIM and its Playbook
The last year has seen some dramatic changes in the computing world. When Apple released its “magical” iPad last year, it started something much bigger than the company itself. Now a year later, consumers can choose from a proliferation of tablets, including the improved iPad2.
You want privacy? Stay off the grid entirely!
The sanctimonious crowd is after Apple again. Apparently, iPhone and iPad devices keep a log of users’ locations through what is known as “Location Services”. Calls have been issued, such as to the privacy commissioner in Canada, to investigate – as if we were dealing with a major crime of genocidal proportions.
Greenpeace gets it wrong
Greenpeace has provided proof again of the short-sigthtedness, and narrow-mindedness, of environmental organizations, most of which are driven by a kind of religious fervour, rather than common sense.
An Apple a day …
My father-in-law was at a hearing clinic recently to be fitted for new hearing aids, and what he encountered there, on two separate visits, was yet more testimony to the flawed nature of Windows-based computers. The computers at the clinic would repeatedly freeze up and fail, wasting everyone’s time and costing the clinic a fair amount in lost productivity.