Orienting the iPad for use with a keyboard.

May 19, 2011

The iPhone Blog posted a poll today asking how people tend to use the iPhone’s virtual keyboard, and surprisingly, after 3k votes, portrait-based use is currently in the lead. We guess that this is based primarily on the amount of screen real-estate left after the virtual keyboard is displayed, as the landscape keyboard hides so [...]

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The iPad as post-PC device.

April 12, 2011

Michael Gartenberg clarifies Steve Jobs’ statement that the iPad is a post-PC device by pointing out that whether the iPad is tethered or not is missing the point: The iPad and other devices are not here to displace the PC (by which I mean all personal computers, whether they’re Macs or PCs running Windows). In [...]

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Why we probably won’t get an iPad 2.

March 11, 2011

We say “probably” because if Target doesn’t have a line at 17:00 today, we may be tempted to stop in and make an impulse buy against our better judgment. What’s this judgment based on? Lack of features and a question of hasty integration of those features. Who wants to carry the iPad around their neck? [...]

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The iPad can’t do work?

February 22, 2011

We’ve already written about our iPad serving as a Mac replacement for most tasks, but there’s still a misconception out there that the iPad can’t do work, which is akin to the iPad not being a suitable device for creating content. The latest perpetuation of this myth comes courtesy of TUAW. What the iPad does [...]

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iDevices to lose their home [buttons].

January 14, 2011

iDevice evolution may be headed in the direction of deprecating the “home” button, which to date is an integral part of the iOS experience. It’s really no surprise, however, seeing as Apple previously removed physical controls from the iPod too, moving to a touch-based interface even long before the release of the iPhone. Removing the [...]

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OnLive barely alive?

January 11, 2011

Twenty-one months ago, we expressed skepticism over OnLive, the gaming service offering streaming video games over the internet. In that time, OnLive has left beta, and recently offered it’s “microconsole” for $100. Still, OnLive’s growth has been slow, to say the least. After our article went live, it didn’t take long for someone (Darq) at [...]

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