Tag: Apple

Why a Google 8-inch Nexus Tablet will sell like hotcakes (or Cabbage Patch Kids or Furbys)

So, now at the end of 2013, we find ourselves at the beginning of the great tablet expansion. Expect a major proliferation of tablet sizes, prices, designs.

Are refreshed MacBooks, iPads enough for Apple?

Though I'm quite fond of the Surface, and Dell's Venue 8 Pro, there's no denying that the single best tablet on the market today is the iPad Mini. Hands down. Brilliant. Especially at the new price point of $299.

Apple and the Android Challenge

Tomorrow, Apple will assuredly release a fifth-gen iPad. Tim Cook and his team will also likely reveal new MacBooks and a few other goodies. But will it be enough to slow Android?

Google and the Nexus 5 naming challenge

Does Google need to rebrand the Nexus smartphones and tablets?

Is Apple ‘iWatch’ tech’s greatest head fake?

If true, arch-nemesis Samsung took the bait. They put hundreds of engineers onto the Gear project, and poured a bunch more into marketing the thing (with abysmal results to spare).

This is the new, flat Google logo

Comparing Android on my Nexus 4 side-by-side with iOS 7 on my iPad Mini, I began to understand why Apple faces the more monumental job in giving its OS design a refresh.

How Microsoft can fix Surface

Here's what Microsoft needs to do with the Surface 2 to right the ship, and take a serious run at Apple and Google in the tablet market.

Apple iOS 7 – Brought to you by a Lunatic with an Axe

Is Apple iOS 7 the worst design to ever come out of tech? "It appears to have been designed by a lunatic, and then hit with an axe."

Tablet surge continues

Analyst firm IDC says tablet shipments will top PC shipments in Q4 2013.

Apple, my friends, is dead

Yesterday's announcement, featuring one slightly upgraded iPhone (5S) and one slightly discounted iPhone (5C), did little to demonstrate that the company can compete in a post-Jobs world.