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 [...]
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 [...]
