“Three years ago, Steven P. Jobs compared personal computers to trucks and tablets to cars. PCs will still be around, he said, but more people will want tablets,” Brian X. Chen reports for The New York Times.
“Apple on Tuesday took another step toward making that prediction come true. It souped up its iPad tablets with faster processors and zippier Internet connections,” Chen reports. “The company upgraded its iPad Mini, the smaller tablet, with a higher-resolution display. The full-size iPad with a 9.7-inch screen was renamed the iPad Air, because it has a slimmer design and has lost some weight. [The iPad Air is about 20 percent thinner than the previous iPad and weighs one pound, down from 1.4 pounds.] The small iPad starts at $400 and the bigger iPad will cost $500. Both iPads will ship in November.”
“Mr. Jobs, who died in 2011, declared at a business conference in 2010 that the era of the personal computer was nearly over. He said that tablets, which are more portable and easier to use, would cut people’s ties to old-school computers, relegating PCs — like trucks — to carrying the heaviest loads. ‘When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm,’ Mr. Jobs said. As cars became faster and easier to use, trucks became passé, he said,” Chen reports. “Tablets are already devouring the PC market. About 120 million tablets were shipped in 2012, nearly seven times as many as in 2010, when the Apple iPad was first released, according to Gartner, a market research company. IDC, another research company, predicts that sales of tablets will surpass those of PCs in the fourth quarter of this year, and on an annual basis in 2015.”
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Yeah, and CBS News tonight was talking about the new iPads and how Google is now kicking Apple’s ass. Scott Pelley and CBS suck.
You got that right. Scott Pelley and CBS suck Google’s skin flute.
Try to fulfill your potential and rise above such thoughts and images. You are capable of great things.
Alas, I fear your campaign to regulate the unruly passions of our cowboys will continue to be met with indifference. Surely you realise that pure reason can’t persuade the victim of an insult to swallow it, to turn the other cheek, when the overwhelming, primordial impulse is to choke the upstart with your bare hands. Besides, CBS does suck.
Yeah, stop making jokes and having fun, we disapprove of that.
The CBS Evening Lies with Damn Blather.
er, whoever hosts that horseshit now.
Seriously? That’s hilarious.
These TechTard ‘journalists’ are begging to be booted out of their jobs by the younger techno cognoscenti. The embarrassment level of crap tech journalism compounds every day.
So embarrassing and ignominious that it makes one crave a different life, perhaps as an anthropologist working with the great apes, who inhabit a sensible ecosystem, practice meaningful rituals, communicate effectively, groom one another, and gaze at us humans as pathetic versions of themselves cursed with diseased brains
Yes Hannah. I actually have a story that is just about that. I’ll give you a vague quick plot. A study of humanity is discovered and no one knows where it came from. They read it and are appalled. When they find out what aliens actually wrote it, they are surprised to find it is their best friend species. More I cannot say.
Microsoft’s new logo should be a silhouette of a fat clown asleep at the wheel.
The new iPads should now be light and thin enough that the fat clown’s kids and wife could hide them easily at home…just don’t hide it where a fat clown could sit on it.
I was not at the helm … — Captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino
MS lost the first mover advantage in 2007 with iPhone and then again with iPad and now with free creative & productivity apps.
Der Fuhrer in Redmond simply wanted to believe his own bullshit.
Apple is so aggressive that I think MS has permanently lost critical mindshare that is needed to keep them in the OS & Apps market, except for marginal office uses as they slowly drift into irrelevance.
you forgot the mighty Zune.
You had to remind us. 😉
lol, sorry. I always think of that photo MDN used to run with a brown Zune in a toilet.
I have it in my nostalgia storage collection, good for a laugh on a rainy day. It’s a shame the Surface series is too large to flush. I still like the prospect of them paving the back garden path.
What did you think of the iPad ad introduced today…the one with the pencil at a distance? Best ad in years, I thought.
You’re perceptive and rational today, always a fine thing
every day, baby…I am not the shepherd for the human/ovine hybrid mutants that occasionally graze this site.
Actually MS were first in both smartphones and tablets, they just couldn’t get it right, even after Apple showed them.
So, if the new iPad is now the iPad Air, perhaps the rumours of an iPad Pro become more credible. Otherwise, why modify the name of your mainstream model?
“As Liet taught us” –
“the slow way always wins you young pup” –
“the man in a rush never sees the edge of the cliff” – well, Microsoft is still falling off that one. . . . .