Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo, Bella and Jacob, Apple and RIM. What do these pairs all have in common? They’re locked in relationships that are beautiful to imagine, but doomed from the start. For different reasons each pair has so much potential, but can never realize it.
The iPhone and the BlackBerry are two [...]
Now Apple has always been a follower, never being the first to market with a new product. Instead they study the market and figure out what it is we want, instead of telling us what we need. Since the advent of computing, MP3 players, and the like, Apple’s foundation is built on doing [...]
Read
E-Ink, the hot new technology that’s in all of today’s latest e-readers is actually more than 10 years old. The E-Ink Corporation started manufacturing the stuff in 1997 based on work from MIT’s media lab. In the time since, we’ve seen it go into a number of e-reader devices from Sony, Amazon, and [...]
Read
Despite my best efforts to stay away from the dedicated e-reader market, Amazon has piqued my interest with the international edition of the Kindle 2. Back when it was a US exclusive, I could turn up my nose and say “I wasn’t interested anyways”. But now that it’s just a few mouse clicks [...]
Read
Magazines companies are taking a preemptive strike at building an interactive magazine prototype for tablet computing. As you already know, the publishing industry smells trouble. As content continually migrates from the paper pages to the Internet, magazines and newspapers subscriptions are facing extinction. Profits are dwindling as people trade the paper medium for the [...]
Read