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50% of facebook users have some college education (22% graduated).
76% of twitter users have some college education (28% graduated).
Whenever I see someone taking one of those damned facebook quizzes, it just validates this assertion.
Word on the street is that AT&T hasn’t enabled the higher speed HSDPA+ radios on the Androids but since Apple controls the iPhone firmware, AT&T can’t mess with it.
This is a critical flaw with the Android ecosystem. The carriers can still f*** with you any way they want.
And they will.
From Daring Fireball:
"ViewSonic’s own promotional image for the product shows it running, of all things, a slightly-disguised screenshot of Mac OS X."
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/08/viewsonic-viewpad
First off: Android 1.6 is not meant for tablets.
Second: Windows 7 is not meant for fingers. Despite the "touch-friendly" features built in, all UI controls are designed for mouse cursors.
Probably the the most ridiculous of all the problems with ViewSonic's release is that the screenshot (http://media.marketwire.com/attachments/201103/MOD-41377_ViewPad10frontscreen... shows it running Mac OS X, which it obviously can't and won't do.
These guys are hacks and frauds.
Hungary’s new constitution is being drafted on Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPad, Jozsef Szajer, a ruling party lawmaker in the European Parliament, said in a blog post.
Steve Jobs will surely be happy when he gets word that Hungary’s new constitution is being written on an iPad, actually my iPad,” Szajer said in a post, adding that it was the first constitution in the world to be written on the device. “The best is I don’t have to wait for minutes to turn it on, like with a normal laptop. I can open it anywhere and can take advantage of every minute. It’s a miracle!”
Apple's competitors (including RIM) keep positioning their tablets as "media consumption devices." The dirty little secret, though, is that with the iPad's form factor, it can actually be a productivity device and a damned good one too. That's just something a wide-screen tablet resists, especially the 7" models.
Decided to go back to an earlier photo I didn't post because I couldn't quite reproduce what I had in my mind's eye. Now, I think I got it.
People also said that Apple wasn’t very forthcoming with the specs of the iPad 2. Again, that’s true, but there’s a good reason for that—nobody cares.
Well, some people care. Those of us who are geeks care about specs. However, have you ever noticed that when you sit with your non-geek friends and start listing off specs their eyes glaze over and they rest their chin in their hand.
That’s because they couldn’t care less.
Jim Dalrymple educating the geeks and nerds at TechCrunch.
And then there's the Xoom. The Xoom isn't a netbook, or a netbook wanna-be. It's a computer. A big old honking computer. With a touch screen. It's what you get when you let engineers build something without designers and artists cracking the whip and instilling fear into them.
Truth
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