January 30th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
It’s amazing how many people complain about the hardware specs, but forget about the software. The iPad has the most important feature of all: usability.
Remember mobile internet before the iPhone? Nobody used it. Then along came the iPhone: technically nothing new: touch screens existed before, mobile browsers existed before.
But only the usability of the iPhone [...]
January 27th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
The video on the iPad page more or less proofs it’s purpuse: it’s THE couch device. Even the basic version seems good enough for most purposes: internet surfing, watching video, reading books and magazines, looking at your pictures.
I bet soon every member of your family will have his or her own iPad: we want to [...]
January 27th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
Newspapers are looking to the ipad/islate/itablet to save their business, assuming that they can just copy their paper business to the tablet. Sell editions or subscription so customers can read their newspaper on the tablet.
However, every new technology starts with copying existing concepts. Initially on the web we saw copies of concepts that already existed: [...]
January 4th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
A lot has been written about tablets, iTablet, iSlate, etc, but most focus on if we need one (we’ll find a need), what name it will have (who cares) and what specs it will have (every year a bit better). Only a few articles seem to focus on the bigger picture. Today’s New York Time [...]
December 21st, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in tablet
Tablets will finally cause true media convergence. It’s been often discussed how books, magazines, web and TV will all merge. But so far this hasn’t really happened. Watching TV on the computer is inconvenient, reading books on computers is inconvenient, reading the internet on the TV is inconvenient.
At home, most people just want to lay [...]
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