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Apple extends the app paradigm

January 17, 2011

In their quest to app-ify the world, Apple has now release apps for the Mac. Several notes of interest here indeed not the least of which being the ability for Apple to further entrench its users in adopting an “app-only” lifestyle. In other words, if it ain’t an app, I ain’t using it. Not for nothing, this isn’t far off from how many of our clients currently view the app experience. This is clearly evidenced by the amount of times in a day I hear the phrase “there should be an app for that”. Several of the usual suspects

Steve Jobs taking medical leave

January 17, 2011

Announcements today of Jobs’ medical leave of absence are everywhere. Cook will once again take over for Steve while he is gone. There is no argument that Jobs has been at the helm through an incredible growth period of Apple. With a slew of new things on the horizon, deal with Verizon, iPad 2, iPhone 5, etc, it will be an interesting time to see if the momentum will keep up in his absence. It is unlikely that it won’t. With the tablet wars fully in progress and Android taking off more by the day, 2011 will almost certainly

Apps to control your world

January 13, 2011

As mentioned here before, apps are playing an increasing role in the world around us. Recently the Wall Street Journal had a wonderful article about this phenomenon. This is not only interesting to a company like ours in terms of sheer interest in gadgetizing our worlds, but it is significant in where the world is rapidly heading. Perhaps the most noteworthy line in the article is as follows: “It’s going to get to a point where the hardware is worthless without the app,”. Wow. In terms of what this means it should be an indication that to even hang

CES trends to watch

January 11, 2011

There is a plethora of CES related news out there but the top line stuff that is of extreme interest is pretty simple. One, tablets. Oh my goodness tablets. Literally everywhere. Everyone under the sun is making a tablet. It would seem the folks who previously panned this as a big iPod Touch were indeed off. Namely, PC World here. Second is internet TV’s. It sounds reasonable seeing as it is in the top spots for time-sucking in our lives. If I can look up anything, anytime on my phone, why not my TV. Third is apps. Again, we

Apple TV hits 1 million mark

January 6, 2011

Seems as though 2011 will no doubt be a year of tremendous technological growth. As mentioned before, the tablet market is on fire, Apple can’t sell enough iPhones, and the Android market is continuing their amazing growth across multiple carriers. What’s left? The merger of internet and TV. Apple has had a hat in the ring here for a while and we are now seeing the first signs that it is officially in motion. This holiday season Apple’s Apple TV sales crested a million units. This is significant in what it says about how people are using their devices.

PalmPad – the latest iPad killer

January 4, 2011

Trade shows are always interesting. Regardless of industry each trade show has hundreds of booths from companies you know and companies you don’t. All of them however typically share a theme each year. As you walk from one booth to the next you hear hundreds of variations on that theme; how they do it better, how they do it faster, what makes them the best. This year’s CES is absolutely going to be about tablets. It would seem that Palm is coming out with one that appears to be pretty cool. The PalmPad is going to run their WebOS

KNO Tablet set to launch

January 3, 2011

With the tablet market literally ablaze these days we are sure to have numerous posts about this in 2011. It seems fair then to kick the year off with a tablet that appears to be the first to draw a line in the sand and make their device a one-trick pony; work. The tablet is being sold as a student device that focuses on work and nothing but. In other words, no apps, no fart machines, no GPS to the nearest bar, just class work, homework, and in general learning. The general idea here is to provide a tablet