iPad Fake-Outs, Malware Rising, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed...
Watch How Your iPad Really Gets Made
A lot has been said and written about the conditions under which Foxconn workers construct the millions of iPads that are sold each quarter. But strip all that away, focus on the process itsel...
Let’s Not Get Too Excited About Those New iPad Sales Numbers (Updated)
Did you hear? This past weekend set all kinds of iPad sales records. Tim Cook said it! AT&T said it! And while I'm sure the new iPad was a huge part of that, let's temper our applause. There ar...
The Biggest Mistake People Made About the iPad
The original iPad certainly had its detractors. But for all the myriad complaints about that big ol' bezel, the lack of cameras, the name, and so on, there was one refrain that echoed loudest a...
The New iPad in Just Five Minutes
See that? It's everything Apple thinks you should know about the iPad in just over five minutes. And while its spec highlights—retina display, a quad-core A5x chip—are impressive, ...
A Tale of Two iPads
There's a Wall Street Journal article you should know about, if you don't already. It's about Apple doubling one of its most popular product lines, introducing a smaller, more affordable versio...
Amazon Attacks iPad on Price, Doofusism
Amazon's Kindle ads have long gone after tablets over readability in sunlight. Which, fair! But now that its Kindle Fire is a glare-prone LCD turbo-tab itself, the company has chosen a new bat...
Apple Will Worry About iPad Competition When It Exists
When asked today about how Apple was handling the competition from lower-priced tablets—specifically the Kindle Fire—Apple CEO Tim Cook said, effectively, that it isn't a competitio...
This Cat Just Beat Your Fruit Ninja High Score
Of all the trends to close out 2011, I couldn't be happier with the emergence of Animals Playing Games On Gadgets. First came the agile bearded dragon, then the vicious African Bullfrog, and n...
The One Reason the iPad Can’t Lose
In the 1890s, King Camp Gillette had what was then novel business idea: sell durable razor handles cheaply to lock in lifelong customers of disposable blades. By trading short-term loss for lon...
WebOS Stalling, More Cement Implants, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed...
Castro Tweets, X-Ray Scotch, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed...
