I thought I knew how the new iPad would be treated in the marketplace, but as usual I underestimated its impact. The numbers are impressive, but even more telling is the response from Microsoft. Here's a company that knows how to sit on a lead, so they know just how... Read More »
A few days ago, stimulated by the level of recent noise on the internets about open and closed and apps and HTML5 and walled gardens and governance models and why someone hates
Apple’s barnburner sales of the new iPad (three million in the first three days of sales) are a clear indication that the latest iteration of the breakthrough device is connecting with more than just fanboys. And while I am sure that the vast majority of them are being picked up... Read More »
How much do you make? Have you ever contemplated suicide? Are you now or have you ever been…? Are you aware of the fact…? I have here before me… [...]information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community’s... Read More »
Cynics can easily dismiss Apple’s idea of a “Post-PC era” as self-aggrandizing marketing. After all, it has a large and growing share of the personal computer market, but the big contributors to growth are post-PC change agents like the iPhone and iPad. So I thought Gartner’s take on the trend... Read More »
Silicon Valley whipped itself into a nerd frenzy this week to a degree not seen since, um Sunday, when The Simpsons restyled their opening into a Game of Thrones spoof. The reason, the opening of the latest installment of our favorites series, iPad: The Third Coming. Jobs designed great products,... Read More »
Have you read Haydn Shaughnessy? If you’re interested in the social enterprise, you should. I haven’t yet read his recent book, The Elastic Enterprise, but I will: I intend to read it as I cross the Atlantic on my way to SXSW later this week. (I’m speaking there on the... Read More »
The fight for second place in the tablet market is getting interesting. First of all, clearly moving in the wrong direction is the poorly-reviewed Playbook software upgrade from RIM. Email, which seemed like a glaring omission from the first version, has now come to the Playbook. At CNET, Roger Cheng... Read More »
In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word... Read More »
I think it’s clear by now that I will do just about anything to work in a reference to the greatest film meme of all time, Planet of the Apes. Let’s just say that I have a very indulgent editor. You da man, John Taschek. [Ed. note: Planet of the... Read More »
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