I’m taking the rumor about a new Motorola tablet with a grain of salt for now, but I hope one day soon we will see this rumor be a rumor no more. It is rumored that this new tablet is 10″ big, and it will run Droid operating system. There is something else that I consider a thing of beauty, and I’m talking about the possibility that this tablet will have dual cameras. To top it off, Verizon’s FiOS will service this tablet!
FiOS wires your house with fiber optic cables, and your service will be blazing fast! 3G or Wi-Fi , it doesn’t matter, when things run over fiber optic cables, everything is faster! Unfortunately, it depends on the speed of the Internet connection’s package that you are willing to sign up with Verizon. FiOS provides everything, and that means you’ll have TV, telephone, and Internet.
Besides the Internet connection, I suspect that the new Motorola tablet will have FiOS’s TV service also! As of now, everything is only a rumor about this tablet, but why don’t we all hope it will become true? The other thing that we all hope for is that it will be even more affordable than the iPad! At least the rumor has had that the new Motorola tablet will have dual cameras, and this iPad doesn’t have! Unfortunately, iPad is not a rumor! Therefore, I’ll eat this grain of salt and hope fore the best! How about you? Source.
Everyone wants a bite of Apple! Researchers of Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Science in India are looking for a manufacturer that can produce their $35 tablet in abundance. They boast that the cheap tablet can do everything that an iPad can. The OS will be Linux. A $35 tablet will undercut all American tablet players! So far I have not heard any other tablet that has a price this inexpensive! India promises a cheap tablet, but can they keep the promise? If the $35 tablet becomes real, I sure hope American people can get some too! One thing for sure, nothing can go wrong with a Linux OS. Excuse me for being such a Linux fan! Source.
It’s not that difficult to imagine today has come as a testament whence in earlier time Kindle has what they call, the Opra effect. Amazon has came out with an amazing fact that it now has sold more Kindle ebooks than it has had with hardcover books. It is not a surprise to see physical books decline in sales not because buying ebooks is more hip. Instead, it’s all about the truth of a convenience.
Also, when you buy an ebook from Amazon’s Kindle Store, it’s forever your as long Amazon isn’t deleting it from your account. Got a broken Kindle, iPhone, Android smart phone, and the likes? Not a problem, because you can always get a new device to download what is rightfully your. Just make sure you have not forgot what your password is.
For insane folks like me who want to read ebooks on a huge HD TV for the sake of awesomeness and not for common sense, yes we can do it that way with little fuzz. How? All it takes a PC that is hooking up to a huge flat HD TV; using a Kindle for PC software is what makes reading Kindle ebooks on any monitor/TV possible.
Nothing could beat the truth of a convenience and the truth of $9.99 a book, I should say an ebook.
I’m not singing about the hardware price, because Kindle itself is $189. A Kindle is half of or much less cheaper than an iPad, but it has to be a lot cheaper for me to want it. Other people are sold on Kindle since they’re not me, half the price of an iPad is a deal for them. Not an offending point of view, it’s jut that other people are more generous than me when come to a price of a gadget such as a Kindle. I also believe there are a lot of folks would love to see a $99 Kindle. Yet, Amazon’s Kindle ebooks are outselling hardcover books!
Believe me folks, people without a Kindle are using numerous devices to digest Kindle ebooks all the time. Smart phones and similar ebook devices are tapping into Amazon’s huge ebook collection. TechCrunch writes Amazon has about 630,000 Kindle ebooks.
Let not forget $9.99 an ebook, because it is a testament to the pandemonium.
Some people prefer the old way when hardcover books rule the world, but the truth is the truth. This is only the beginning, and we shall see there’s a lot more to come. It’s not more of the same, but it’s a battle for the hills where information may only get cheaper — Amazon will be a lot happier too as quick, high turnover ebook inventory will be more of the norm. Source.
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher grilled Steve Jobs on Flash and more at D8 conference right after the jump. The irony is that this video plays in Flash (Steve Jobs hates Flash). When we’re talking about Steve Jobs, we cannot stop talking about his synonym which is iPhone. On Monday, Steve Jobs unveiled a latest iPhone model known as iPhone 4. Just right after iPad was sold in millions of units, iPhone 4 may not be as hot as iPad in term of units got sold since older iPhones are pretty much functional; not everyone has money to upgrade to a latest iPhone.
The prices of iPhone 4 are around $199 to $299 depending on the storage sizes. iPhone 4 had a controversy we probably all have heard by now which was about someone at Apple lost it at a public space couple months ago. Someone at Gizmodo got the hold of a lost prototype, but Apple had the authorities swamped the apartment of Jason Chen — an editor for Gizmodo.
Nonetheless, I don’t think that incident has any negative influence on iPhone 4 at all, besides some people think Apple is arrogant! In fact, the lost iPhone 4 prototype may have done many free ad services for the official iPhone 4 way before the launch date. As you can see I’m still talking about it now!
Then there was a euphoria when people caught off guard as Apple had surpassed Microsoft in the market capitalization. Moment before Steve Jobs reemployed at Apple, Apple was on life-support, years later, Steve Jobs had successfully turned around Apple’s fate; instead of bankruptcy on the loom, Apple is now dominated a sweet spot (smart phone) in the technology industry.
If you’re a fan of Apple, a user of iPhone or iPad, then you definitely want to watch what Steve Jobs got to say. Check what Steve Jobs talked about at D8 conference in the full length video interview right after the jump.
Definite forecast is an oxymoron, and the analogy that Steve Jobs made in the interview with Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher for Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference on Tuesday is also an oxymoron. Steve Jobs suggested an analogy of how cars replace trucks to iPads replace PCs, and then he said something of sort — one out of many people will need a PC! Ain’t this an oxymoron as in a definite forecast? We all know there is no such a thing as a definite forecast, because forecast is what lies in the future — nothing is definitely definite unless it’s right here and right in front of us, where we can listen, stare, taste, smell, and touch it.
Is the sixth sense even real? Some geeky people may think Steve Jobs has the sixth sense which may make his forecast of how iPads replace PCs as a definite forecast. So what am I trying to aim at? Nothing really! I think Steve Jobs is dead on about how iPads may replace PCs as in cars replace trucks as in oxymoron. Oxymoron doesn’t have to be wrong! Trucks aren’t really being replaced by cars, people just think cars are more useful than trucks in certain situations (more fashionable, maybe), oxymoron suggests that trucks are still around; people drive them trucks that I see every other day.
Steve Jobs is dead on about iPads, but I think it’s only a short-lived forecast, because Apple’s competitors may think even further out such as creating wearable PCs. Wearable PCs are fashionable and wearable; when these are available, i think iPads might be just as outdated as PCs. Oxymoron again, iPads won’t be dead, just not that popular as before. What about those futuristic iPads? What I’m talking about are those have shown in many science fiction movies, with a spread of an index finger and a thumb, and out, comes a 3D glass looking hologram to allow the manipulations of applications. Ya, that is pretty far out there, but the pasts have shown us that what can be imagined, all can be invented, and then some can be commercialized.
It’s an oxymoron for one to say cars replace trucks, but trucks can still be seen everywhere, just not every time; it’s the same for iPads and PCs. Oxymoron doesn’t have to be wrong! In this case, oxymoron is a popularity gauge for cars and iPads. Nonetheless, I like to make a definite forecast that iPad is a fluke to us all, because we always want something better even though it’s apparently that we do have something that’s pretty darn good. What is left to be said is that it’s not that iPads will replace PCs, but it’s that the tablet devices from Apple’s competitors will come out in abundance and flood the market — one can say the tablets may replace the PCs, and this is also an oxymoron. Source.
An interesting blog post with a title of “Did Steve Jobs Steal The iPad? Genius Inventor Alan Kay Reveals All” claims that iPad is a vision of the past. Back in the day, engineers were thinking of something like an iPad, but it was called as Dynabook. The post claims Steve Jobs isn’t stealing the idea of Dynabook, because the people behind Dynabook knew about what Steve Jobs was intended to do, to compile the best ideas from Dynabook into a marketable form which is iPad. In a way, Steve Jobs can’t claim iPad is his truly innovation, but it’s only an improvement over what could have been something else. The people behind Dynabook weren’t able to produce Dynabook, but their ideas for Dynabook were much different. Nonetheless, their vision for Dynabook was somewhat similar to iPad as both were intended to market as personal computational devices.
The iPad is hot, but the tablet market is only heating up. More tablets from various brands will come out to compete against iPad. New tablets from brands other than Apple will probably have cameras, USB ports, and extra features to belittle iPad. Even crazier, new tablets may have cheaper prices to make iPad a pricey device.
One of the most unusual decision that Apple made was not to add a camera onto iPad. Don’t you think it’s a mistake? iPad should have a camera that allowed people to do video conferencing, because the tablet is the ideal for that. The tablet has a screen size that is comfortable for projecting videos on the go, and it’s great for projecting video conferences.
It’s not science fiction nor exaggeration, within three or four years, we might see more people rely on the tablets for video conferences (video phone). People like you and I may find video conferencing is a cooler way to communicate at a distance. Video conference is not going to replace normal phone session where you and I cannot see each other, but it’s rather a choice, a preference that many people may find it is more appealing than without it. Video conferencing on a tablet might be a more common thing as we moving ahead. Don’t you think this might be the scenario?
How can one spend beyond the mean for an iPad? iPad accessories are not expensive when one takes a look at each item by itself, but people tend to batch a bunch of accessories together when they’re in the mood to pimp up their main gadgets. In this case, iPad accessories can be very expensive.
iPad is so hot that even CNN is talking about its potential to be sold out within few days, and Apple may have to refill its inventory as soon as possible! I think that is an overstatement, because not everyone is an Apple fan, but Apple has certainly done quite well with iPhone and iPod, and so we cannot rule out the possibility of a sale phenomenon for iPad.
Sadly to say, brand new iPad may not satisfy its owner, because after unwrapping the box to unveil iPad, a brand new gadget owner may want to go out to an Apple store for iPad’s accessories. Yahoo has published this article as a testimony to how potent iPad accessories can be as the article tells a story of a person who aimed to buy an iPad but overspent about $341.
Here is a tip from me, only buy what you need, and not what you think you want! iPad with 3G is going to cost you way more, and buying unimportant accessories leads you to unnecessary costs. If you’re not on the road a lot, then iPad can only be used within the house and at work, therefore you only need a lower end iPad where 3G isn’t necessary. Taking off 3G feature, you save $130. Buying the 16 GB model if you don’t want to save too much data in your iPad, and by doing this you save $100 for not buying the 32 GB model and $200 for not buying the 64 GB model.
Do you get your news by paying monthly for a subscription? Not too many people are going to say yes as free news are all over the web. There are few people who are willing to pay for a monthly subscription for various off the web and online magazines and news, but the contents have to be very professional and enticing. The Wall Street Journal has such contents, and Rupert Murdoch thinks people are willing to pay for their contents even though free news are everywhere. As Rupert Murdoch has promised, the Wall Street Journal rolls out a new application which runs on iPad, and this application allows people to read the Wall Street Journal fully with a catch that people have to cough up about $17.29 per month.
The Wall Street Journal is exploring the side that not too many newspapers and magazines and information web services think viable. It may be a good thing for web journalism if the Wall Street Journal succeeds in making huge revenue with this new business model over iPad and the web. Not too many people are so optimistic as Rupert Murdoch though, because there are more people who want to get news for free. People are so used to surf the web for free news, and they already have subscribed to cable and satellite in which they got various news channels; it’s not so tempting for people to pay even more monthly news subscriptions over iPad. Source.
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