Michael Scott, first CEO of Apple, regarding Steve Jobs:
The Apple II case came, it had a beige and a green, so for all the standard colors of beige available in the world, of which there are thousands, none was exactly proper for him. So we actually had to create “Apple beige” and get that registered.
CrunchGear: I like this concise table. Looks like the Kobo is smaller, lighter, and to my eyes better looking. But the All-New NOOK has the potential to be hacked into a full-blown Android tablet.
The Loop: The 11-inch MacBook Air, and all three MacBook Pros took the top spots. That’s what you call Number One Plus.
Coretronic is said to now be looking to expand into the tablet market, specifically by supplying backlights for Apple’s iPad. The company is reportedly working with Chimei innolux to provide backlight modules, but Chimei was only certified by Apple this month.
Somehow Chimei Innolux (CMI) has acquired the necessary IPs and know-how to manufacture IPS (In-Plane Switching) LCDs for Apple’s iPad. Let’s hope Apple improves its display quality requirements so we don’t experience problems like light bleeding on an otherwise wonderful display.
Cult of Mac: The BookBook leather folio for the Apple MacBook Air notebooks (both 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch versions) by TwelveSouth is priced at $80 and gorgeous.
A refurbished 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab that works on Sprint was going for a steal at $260 on Woot. Unfortunately, it has been sold out. I’m certain there will be more deals like this to come since new Galaxy Tabs will be available soon, making the older ones prime target for price cutting.
4:3 is a good balance for a device that’s meant to be used in either orientation.
In iPad 2.0: A More Perfect iPad I explore the idea of an iPad that’s a bit taller (or narrower):
Putting all of this together, a more per fect iPad 2.0 would sport roughly a 10-inch display with a 1.4 aspect ratio. It is just a bit wider in landscape and a little skinnier in portrait than the current iPad and should be better at displaying all three media: documents, photographs, moving pictures while making it easier to touch-type with all ten fingers in landscape mode.
Dell via Guardian:
Finally, the power you crave in the thinnest 15″ PC on the planet*.
The small print:
* Based on Dell internal analysis as at February 2011. Based on a thickness comparison (front and rear measurements) of other 15″ laptop PCs manufactured by HP, Acer, Toshiba, Asus, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, MSI. No comparison made with Apple or other manufacturers not listed.
The bottom line: Dell lied.
Many consumers are starting to use non-traditional mediums for viewing TV or video programing, mostly via the Internet. PCs, both desktops and notebooks, were the primary devices used for watching video content aside from the TV. This was the case for at least 40% of consumers in every country, but substantially higher in some countries, like urban China, Indonesia, Russia and Turkey.
My TV watching is 100% via Hulu on a computer.
Eric Cador, HP’s European head:
In the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP’s products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world we’re going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus.
Better than number one?
The strategy by which you become the largest supplier of PCs today is simple: build everything from the cheapest to the most expensive and serve every market. You don’t need differentiation, you need size.
At the end of the day shipment market share counts for very little. Profits do.
Number One Plus? CrunchGear reader haromaster:
It will be better than no. 1, it will be Zero
Without a shipping product the TouchPad is currently at zero.
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