This week was a busy one in the news as Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s iPad on the same day President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address – two events with significant impacts on startups and entrepreneurs. In this week’s ReadWriteSta…
According to a hearsay report in Wired, Apple CEO Steve Jobs allegedly said the following at an internal town hall meeting for Apple employees coinciding with the launch of the iPad:We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the p…
While a lot happened this week, it can be argued that two events captured the most attention: 1) the unveiling of the Apple iPad and 2) President Obama’s State of the Union. Funny enough, both of these events occurred this past Wednesday.We …
“We don’t know how to build a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk.”"Netbooks aren’t better at anything.”Those two quotes are both from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The first was during an earnings call in late 2008 when Jobs fielded a question about w…
While the iPad sports a lot of features, one of them isn’t Flash. The Adobe plug-in is nowhere to be found on Apple’s device, meaning that many online games and video sites (such as Hulu) aren’t usable on Apple’s tablet devi…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a sleek tablet that it called the iPad, pitching the new gadget at a surprisingly low price to bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops.
When I woke up today, it took me about half an hour to get up to speed with the iPad. After I’ve read a couple of articles, I already knew everything there was to know about it (and more): its advantages, its flaws, and its potential.But hidde…
Now that we know what the Apple iPad does do, and the lingering effects of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field are starting to wear off a bit, let’s take a closer look at exactly what the iPad doesn’t do.It does usher in a new comput…
The iPad is not the transformational device so many Apple enthusiasts were hoping for. It won’t turn all the content industries upside down, it won’t be your primary computing device, and it’s not even a bigger, better iPhone.Apple…
Last updated: January 27th, 2010After months of speculation and rumors, it’s official: The Apple iPad is real. The device, announced earlier today by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, is designed to fill the perceived gap between the smartphone and the l…