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I stand corrected. I looked at the ESPN play-by-play to count IU's timeouts and they must have not i... |
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Hey Dan, thanks for being my only subscriber! Yeah I'll be rooting for Penn State (Memphis is a weir... |
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Thanks for the great articles this year Ken! I hope the Big 19 kicks ass in the bowl games. See you... |
Punditry | Friday, 2010 January 29 - 9:17 am |
I'm reading a lot of "the iPad will be a failure" articles and comments lately. It just brings to mind all the "iPhone will be a failure" comments in 2007, and the "iPod will be a failure" comments in 2001. John C. Dvorak famously argued that Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone and license it out as a reference design to Samsung. Samsung. Or there was this famous Slashdot comment on the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." How many people nowadays even remember what a NOMAD was? (It was a bulky, awkward MP3 player from Creative Labs.) It's true that not every Apple product has been a blockbuster success. Critics immediately point to the Newton and the AppleTV as examples of Apple failures. But the difference with those products is that Steve Jobs did not believe they'd be hits. The Newton was a product that Steve despised; he killed it as soon as he returned to Apple. He described the AppleTV as "hobby" for Apple, an experimental, a dip-your-toes-in-the-water kind of thing. But the things that Jobs predicted would be huge, the iPod and the iPhone, were huge. And here we've got the iPad. And just like the Nomad user back in 2001, there are people all over the Internet saying things like, "No Flash. Does less than my netbook. Lame." I wonder whose comment will be enshrined in the punditry hall of shame two years from now? |
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Apple iPad Thoughts | Wednesday, 2010 January 27 - 8:20 pm |
So it's here, the iPad. The essential specs: 9.7" diagonal 1024x768 IPS LCD display 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, and optional 3G 1 GHz Apple A4 Processor 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB Flash 10-hour battery life Microphone and speaker 30-pin dock connector Accelerometer and compass; in the 3G version, GPS iPhone OS 3.2; runs iPhone apps $499 for 16GB/WiFi model; $829 for top-end 64GB/WiFi+3G model I'll run through how I did with my predictions, and then give some more thoughts about the device. Read more... |
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Apple Tablet Coming Wednesday, According to Everyone | Monday, 2010 January 25 - 11:33 pm |
It seems like everyone except for Apple themselves has confirmed that a new tablet computing device will be unveiled at their media event this Wednesday. It's a lot like the days leading up to the iPhone announcement: a lot of hype, a lot of speculation, and a lot of pundits (with no actual knowledge of what the product will be) predicting that it will fail. So here's what I think about the tablet. Read more... |
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Apple Watch: 2010 Predictions | Friday, 2010 January 1 - 10:41 am |
Happy New Year, everyone. It's time for my annual rundown of Apple predictions. Read more... |
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