During Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took a brief moment to explain the companies own views on touchscreen technology in the desktop computing environment. Most notably, this quote was, and still is a pretty good fire starter: “We’ve done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives great demo but after a short period of time, you start to...
Foxconn has been in the news quite a bit this past year, though not in the way that I’m sure the executives would like. First it was for poor working conditions. Then it was for mass suicides occurring on a daily basis attributed to the poor living/working conditions. And now some more less than stellar news for the consumer electronic manufacturering giant. Truth be told, it’s not really another “bad” story per say. Just a handful of pictures...
Back in 2007 and the iPhone’s early days, finding an actual brick and mortar store that sold one was extremely hard seeing as how Apple Stores and were the only places that really had any. AT&T carried them too, but they had far less iPhone’s on hand to actually keep up with demand. It was basically a lost cause for many weeks after the iPhone was officially launched. But now in 2010, things are very different. Joining the masses, Target is the next...
Following several other concessions on Apple’s old iron grip, another awesome iOS app has finally broken though — Skyfire. For those unfamiliar with Skyfire, it’s a pretty awesome mobile web browser that’s been around on Android for several months now. The way it works is that it helps navigate Flash-heavy websites by stripping said content and then sending it back to Skyfire’s servers to compress and convert to HTML 5 video. From there,...
Strategy Analytics released a study recently highlighting the more or less obvious — the iPad is killing it in the tablet arena to the tune of 95%. However, the firm is quick to note that while the iPad is on top now, the building wave of manufacturer and developer support for cheaper Android tablets is growing, and that by later next year, the tables could be turned pretty substantially. The outlook isn’t hard to believe. The iPad while finally branching out...
