“With a starting price tag of $500 [the iPad is] simply too expensive, twice the price of a better specification netbook and the same price as significantly better laptops. At this price it’s [sic] unique selling points of multi-touch and… erm… whatever the others are, are simply not enough to win hearts and minds.”
If current sales trends continue, the iPad will reach the $1B revenue mark faster than any other consumer product ever. Pre-orders for Australia, Italy, the UK and 6 other countries began today. International delivery will begin on May 28th. I’ve bookmarked this article to revisit at the end of the June quarter.
A great idea that I’ve used myself. When you’ve been away from your inbox for too long, it’s easiest to just delete everything, explain what happened to your contacts and ask them to re-send anything that was important. The last time I did it, less than 1/2 of the original mess came back.
“Microsoft execs informed the internal team that had been working on the tablet device that the project would no longer be supported. Courier had never been publicly announced or acknowledged as a Microsoft product.”
Too bad, it was a nice-looking concept. One can only assume that Apple’s low-cost tablet (the Courier’s dual displays would have put it in another price category) and the threat of a webOS-based Slate from HP hastened its demise.
I recently received a DODOcase for my iPad. It’s absolutely gorgeous. I’ll have a full review on TUAW next week. Until then, enjoy this video demonstrating how each one is hand made.
Yes, the video is spilling into the sidebar. I’m too lazy to fix it right now.
“My iPad has a lot of personal information on it: email, business documents, and financial data. When you pass it around, you’re giving everyone who touches it the opportunity to mess with your private life, whether intentionally or not. That makes me uneasy.
I can envision several ways to solve this problem: either with a traditional login screen or with something new like folders that require a passcode to open. I have no doubt that your designers can find something elegant that gives me peace of mind as I share my iPad with friends and family.”
I agree, and I’ll add that the iPhone needs a similar security feature. I occasionally hand my iPhone to my kids so that they can play one of the many games in the App Store intended for them. Unfortunately, there’s nothing to prevent them from navigating away from that app and availing themselves to anything else the iPhone can do. I’d love to see a pass code or something else that would keep them “locked” in that app.
“[Brian J. Hogan] says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner.”
This is actually a key point. California Code – Section 485 speaks to a “reasonable and just” effort to track down the owner. What effort did Mr. Hogan make?
“A friend of Hogan’s then offered to call Apple Care on Hogan’s behalf, according to Hogan’s lawyer. That apparently was the extent of Hogan’s efforts to return the phone.”
Hogan’s friend, not Hogan himself, offered to call Apple Care. We don’t know if s/he made that call. Also, they obviously knew who it belonged to.
“He made a mistake,’ [Hogan's lawyer] Bornstein added. ‘He should have just immediately turned that phone in.’”
Plus, he shouldn’t have taken money for something he clearly knew wasn’t his, and Gawker shouldn’t have offered money for something that wasn’t Hogan’s.
In a clip from The Daily Show, Jon Stewart takes Steve Jobs and Apple to task for invading Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s home. You’ll remember that Jason has found himself in hot water after he appeared in a video with a prototype of the unreleased 4th generation iPhone.
Jon glosses over much of the story, like how the phone came into Gizmodo’s possession and whether or not Gawker Media realized it was Apple’s property when they bought it. Not to mention that only the DA, not Apple, could order a search. But hey, it’s a comedy show, right?
After criticizing “Apple’s police” for not using an app to bash down Jason’s door and complimenting them on their cool tazers (“they only run on Apple’s electricity”), Jon makes a plea.
“Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one. But now you guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto while commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes.”
