Posts Tagged ‘Than’
Bill Gates says netbooks better than iPad
Apple device is a nice reader, but not good enough Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has called Apple’s iPad a “nice reader” but claims netbooks are the way forward. Speaking briefly to BNET’s Brent Schlender, the Microsoft Chairman, who had admittedto being in awe of the iPhone on first release, [...]
As a rumor, the Apple tablet can be anything to anyone. We’ve all latched on to the idea that it’s a symbol of hope for the struggling print media industry. We’ve also taken the lack of substantiation as free reign to imagine a device capable of the impossible. We can even dream that we’re a [...]
The Newton, like the forthcoming tablet, was introduced with expectations that it would revolutionize personal computing. Apple’s then-chairman noted, “It has been said that Apple either walks on water or it sinks.” That was after the Newton, well, sank.
This vintage NYTimes review, dated September 23, 1993, is remarkable for how forward-thinking it was—except it’s clear [...]
The Newton, like the forthcoming tablet, was introduced with expectations that it would revolutionize personal computing. Apple’s then-chairman noted, “It has been said that Apple either walks on water or it sinks.” That was after the Newton, well, sank.
This vintage NYTimes review, dated September 23, 1993, is remarkable for how forward-thinking it was—except it’s clear [...]
Apple’s forthcoming tablet is emerging as a much-anticipated competitor to Amazon’s Kindle. The tablet will likely have two competitive advantages over the Kindle when it comes to selling digital versions of newspapers and magazines:
Lower content delivery costs, which should enable Apple to cut deals with newspapers and magazines that are more favorable for the publishers [...]
Apple is plotting a “major new product” announcement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on January 27, not January 26, reports John Paczkowski of All Things Digital citing “sources in position to know.”
Phew! That gives the world one more day to pontificate on how the tablet will save old media, how much it [...]