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So the very reasons which are driving developers to spread their bets across all and any new platforms should indicate the potential for new platforms and the sustainability of small platforms. The thesis that one dominant platform wins the mobile “war” is naive. The post-PC era will be a multi-platform era. Developers already understand this. Platform vendors know this. It’s time to unlearn the lessons of the PC era.
Thank goodness.
When looking at the guys comparing tablets, the iPad guy looks happy. The Android tablet guy looks like the typical angry OS-warrior....an all-too common trait of Android Fanboys that nowadays make Guy Kawasaki's troops look tame. They're all too-ready to piss in your Cheerios.
No comment on the annoyed guy in the middle stuck with his pen and paper.
Under casual use conditions, the PlayBook’s battery held up for close to eight hours, which is on par with both generations of the iPad. With heavy use of Flash-based sites (when they functioned) and 1080p video-watching, the PlayBook’s battery hung in there for an impressive 5½ hours.
Where do they find the retarded monkeys that write for Wired?
The iPad gets 10 hours and change of battery life. (The article is reviewing the WiFi-only Playbook) The Playbook gets "close to eight hours." This means that the iPad gives at least 25% more battery life than the Playbook. How is that even close to being "on par?"
Also, when actually USING the Playbook, he got an "impressive" 5½ hours. When actually USING the iPad (movies, games, etc.), you get 10+ hours of battery life.
All that makes me wonder, was the reviewer pulling for the Playbook despite its flaws?
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.
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.
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It's no surprise that the iPad and iPhone are the vectors for better apps. Apple has very well-thought-out human interface guidelines for iOS, and it enforces those principles in its app review -- developers are strongly discouraged from creating new approaches for what Apple has already figured out how to do well. There's some discipline that developers can't easily escape, as they can for in-house projects or when writing apps for "whatever you want to do is fine" OSes such as Windows, Linux, and Android.
This is seriously the most well thought-out article on Infoworld...EVER.
Developers of mobile, desktop and web apps should all read this....NOW.
I'm going to have to check this out in greater detail. Quite intriguing.
