Thought I’d post a quick summary of key remarks by Steve Jobs at D8, courtesy Engadget’s live coverage1. Regarding Foxconn Suicides: Steve: It’s a factory — but my gosh, they have restaurants and movie theaters… but it’s a factory. But they’ve had some suicides and attempted suicides — and they have 400,000 people there. The [...]
Tags: Apple, D8, Steve Jobs
On April 3rd I, along with many other Canadians made the trip down to the Walden Galleria Apple Store in Buffalo, New York. I was too excited about the iPad to care that I was waiting in line for the first version of a new technology product. I for one hate shopping in general, and [...]
Tags: Air Video, Apple, Apple Store, FileBrowser, iPad, Review, Walden Galleria
I was recently reading an article from LXer, entitled ‘Linux alternatives for the iPad – and the future of netbooks, tablets and smartbooks’. The author hypes up Linux on tablet devices, concluding that 2010 is the year of Linux on the tablet, most of which will be Android flavored. He attempts to put down the [...]
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPad, linux, Microsoft, OS, tablet
I’ve seen a number of folks excited about the possibility of getting Windows 7 on a tablet device, whether it be through Citrix on the iPad or natively on a PC tablet such as the ExoPC. I personally have no such desire. Windows 7 simply wasn’t designed for the sole purpose of touchscreen computing. The [...]
As most of you are aware, Apple announced their new Apple iPad yesterday. There have been the usual set of reactions to the announcement. Shills like Paul Thurrott providing their heavily biased negative perspective, and Apple fanboys proclaiming that this device meets all their needs perfectly, and that the device is perfect. Both sides offer [...]
As you’re probably aware, Apple released a slew of product updates this past week. There were a few notable surprises, and a few subtle ones as well. Surprisingly enough, the most interesting change was the change to the iMac lineup, not the Magic Mouse. The shift to a 16×9 aspect resolution instead of the past [...]
Tags: Apple, iMac, Magic Mouse, MultiTouch