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iPad haters: external keyboards are not cryptids.

August 11, 2011

Gary Arndt talks about using the iPad while traveling, and his review is perfectly reasonable until he mentions content creation. [The iPad] is fine for sending out tweets, replying to email or updating Facebook. I have never written a blog post nor have I edited a photo taken on my SLR with the iPad. I [...]

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eBooks still aren’t “cheap”.

July 14, 2011

Two years ago we addressed eBooks and the Kindle, pointing out how the $360 device required about 150 book purchases just to break even compared to the cost of buying paper books. Convenience aside, eBooks were no cheaper than paper books short-term, which is ridiculous considering the savings a publisher has by not having to [...]

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If eBooks are so successful, why the push-back?

May 20, 2011

Things have come a long way since we voiced our concerns on eBooks two years ago. Today, our primary medium for books is the iPad, as we alternate between iBooks and the Amazon Kindle app1. When a book isn’t out for either reader, we’re more likely to wait on a purchase. We don’t seem to [...]

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Enderle just wanted to write “JewJew.”

December 10, 2009

While we brought the Joo Joo up in passing, Rob Enderle proclaimed that the former CrunchPad could crush the market for tablet computing, thereby souring Apple’s entrance into the market altogether. The only problem with his assertion is that the Apple tablet isn’t the same beast as the Joo Joo, and to say that the [...]

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Point of the iTablet? Try these variants.

August 3, 2009

All this talk about the iTablet, and we’re still confused as to what the ultimate point is. Not about the talk itself, but about the reasoning to release an iTablet in the first place, novelty factor aside. The iPhone Blog was keen on pointing out the OS possibilities for the rumoured iTablet, and that consideration [...]

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More obstacles for eBook adoption.

May 8, 2009

By chance, shortly after writing our take on the status of eBooks and the Kindle movement, we hopped online to buy a bunch of books that we’ve been meaning to acquire. The books themselves aren’t specifically relevant to this discussion, but what is relevant is the type of books we were after. To clarify, the [...]

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