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Category: Opinion

  • Predicting tech announcements is easy

    In the days before Steve Jobs and the Apple crew paraded the iPad around the stage in San Fran­cisco, I wrote a couple of items about the (then named) Apple iSlate / iTab­let device. In one, I lis­ted the 6 things I wanted to see in an Apple Tab­let, the oth­er, more rel­ev­ant to this…

  • How the Apple Tablet can really succeed

    Giv­en that Apple isn’t really pay­ing atten­tion to my mus­ings, I’m rather free to go on about things I *think* they can do to make their products, and make them better. I’ve been fol­low­ing Apple’s tab­let designs since the New­ton Mes­sage pad. An inter­est­ing device, yet not very practical. I’m com­pletely smit­ten by my iPod…

  • Why I’m not recommending an eBook reader this Christmas

    This hol­i­day sea­son it seems that the eBook read­er is the must-have tech gift. I can under­stand why: Port­able — it’s easi­er to carry one eRead­er loaded with a few hun­dred (or thou­sand!) books Search­able — some of the eRead­ers can  scan and search for text pas­sages, let­ting you book­mark them for future reference Annota­tions — in…