Sony Tablet PC Concepts
I particularly like the silver one because the back of it bends to create a stand. Sweet.
Actually Looked at the Apple Patent? They Could Stop ANYONE from Building a Tablet
Back in 2010 Apple filed for a design patent for a screen with a bezel and a back…a tablet. They called it the handheld computer. … Take a look at the above design and tell me that doesn’t look like EVERY TABLET on the market. Apple has just chosen the most competitive Android tablet on the market and taken it down. This Community Design patent by Apple has only been around since 2010 so clearly Apple didn’t invent the tablet, Bert Keely, in 2000 at Comdex in Las Vegas the showed off Microsoft’s vision for the Tablet PC. Look familiar? Kind of looks like the images above, how can Apple patent an entire product category?
The Fallacy of Mobile App vs Web.
The problem I have is that the entire argument is stupid. Most of the apps I use on a regular basis are just front-faces for the web anyway. Use Facebook app, a Twitter client, maps or weather? They are all just front ends to web apps. Even email clients are just a front face on data and information from the web. So where do you draw the line?
(A hint: there isn’t one. This is just another fabricated argument to give us tech nerds something to argue about.)
I will disagree, but only slightly.
My most-used apps are those that do more than just front the web for me, they also give me access to data even when the web is not available. Developers have been lax in creating really useful caching abilities in many apps because there’s this idea that people are only using their devices at home on the couch or maybe at work. Well, yes, because they’re not terribly useful on the go.
Unless you have mobile connectivity, but even then that won’t help you on a plane, in a subway, or out where the 3G don’t shine. Plus, given that Wi-Fi only tablets are much less expensive than their 3G/4G counterparts and don’t come with an expensive data plan (which you may be locked into for 2 years), a huge chunk of the audience isn’t going to be always connected.
I think mobile App vs. Web is a good discussion to have when you think about the advantages mobile apps have int hat they can serve up data even when there’s no connection. How to convince developers that this is something they need to think about? That I can’t answer.
Tablets Will Be All Paper and Stone Again in 2018
After forecasts of several global catastrophes brought about by war, climate change, pestilence, economic turmoil and essentially mankind’s insistence on being stupid that would leave the world without the capacity to generate electricity or any other source of power except through the use of fire, analysts are now predicting that today’s supposedly burgeoning Tablet market, currently led by Apple, would be reduced once again to consumers (the ones that will be left) using paper and stone to both consume and create content.
The Mega Android Tablet Matrix
specs, pricing, pictures, and other details laid out all grid-like for your perusal.
