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“Bloomberg Businessweek +” for iPad is a real treat to the eye! Extremely friendly, simple, readable and, gush, you actually don’t have to be a rocket scientist to pay for it! I hope Murdoch will fire the guys doing The Daily’s UI and NYT will learn some product placement.
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Although it may look quite the opposite, Apple’s main task was not to make a popular, thus a visible device, but to make it fully transparent and even invisible, from user perspective. They managed to build a device that you can easily forget about, especially when you are using
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They suck mainly because of the following dialog: Competitor company CEO: “How come Apple makes so much money?” Competitor company Marketing Director: “They’re building innovative products and these products are very well marketed” CEO: “What’s the most innovative device they’ve built?” MD: “iPad” CEO: “Let’s make
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For some, having a better looking sticker on the windshield means having the better car. It also means dumb publicity. How else could you read a non-backlit display but under “direct bright light”?
Snappy Flipboard secrets If you look at this page you’ll see at a glance 2 previews: first upper band – Twitter’s 140 characters – 5 seconds read time, second preview – some 200 words in the mid band – 20 seconds to read. This is more than enough for the full web
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The update brings almost no improvement: the carousel still has its own ideas, the quick scroll spine is still lagging. I see dead people
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There are more and more reports about Apple’s push for placing iPads into schools. This one here says Apple also tries to maintain the price within 500$ for each student and to make available as much free educational content as possible. Why just pushing the device into a RIM
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I’ve done some thinking before writing about this article, but sometimes it can be useful to point dumb things out too. Gizmodo rants against iPad adoption in the classrooms in one of the most incoherent and un-documented way. Maybe I say that because I believe the opposite: iPads are
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I’ve just figured out: the “magic” of my iPad was never magic for my kid. For her it’s just a beautiful, natural and easy to handle thing she never knew before.
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I don’t think Apple will replace the home button with the multi touch pinch. It’s more probable they wanted to add the gesture as a supplementary home function in case you lose the orientation. It looks very important for Apple to minimize the friction.
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Gizmodo looked into The Register who looked into The Nielsen Comapany who published here, on October 21st, a report showing more than 30% of total iPad users have never downloaded any app in their iPad. Of course it looked funny, but hey, who knows how is Apple really counting its