1. The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product attempting broad acceptance). They could honestly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open system. … They want things to work most of the time, and be easy to fix when they don’t. And if the process by which it happens is “magic” they are totally cool with that.
    Mike Monteiro, via Gruber

    Thursday February 4th, 2010 (1 note)

  2. Today’s tablet market is akin to the pre-iPod MP3 player market. Some public interest, huge potential, no good products, no actual success.
    Lukas Mathis, via Twitter

    Saturday January 23rd, 2010 (1 note)

  3. ZOMG! This is what the Apple Tablet UI will feel like! Julian Prokaza, via Twitter
    ZOMG! This is what the Apple Tablet UI will feel like!

    Julian Prokaza, via Twitter

    Monday January 11th, 2010 (4 notes)

  4. The UI has a good bit of new sexy to it.
    Silicon Alley Insider’s “industry sources” help prove that the media will print anything about this damn tablet (via Mac Rumors).

    Thursday January 7th, 2010 (1 note)

  5. How do you keep the rising sun behind your little ninja head all day? - Anonymous

    I pondered a couple of highly-unlikely answers to this awesome question:

    1. That I pay a child-slave to carry the scenery behind me all day (I mean, they’re non-unionised and happy to work for a small bag of sweets).
    2. That I actually never move, and the sunrise is fixed behind me.

    However, the answer is much more mundane: I’ve been testing a touch-based tablet from a certain Cupertino company. As well as curing cancer, it has this awesome hover feature that means you don’t actually have to hold it to use it Minority Report-style with two hands - and best of all, it’ll hover behind you to show a sunrise background. I can’t say too much about the device - other than it’s going to rock. Or at least that’s what I was told by the friend of a friend of a friend who used to work at Google….

    If you’ve got a question you want to ask, fire away. All previous questions are tagged Ask for your viewing pleasure.

    Thursday January 7th, 2010 (4 notes)

  6. The Joy of Tech

    The Joy of Tech

    Saturday January 2nd, 2010 (42 notes)

  7. ➶ The CrunchPad – the greatest tablet there never was?

    Charles Arthur, Technology editor at The Guardian, takes a look at what proved to be the demise of Michael Arrington’s pet project.

    Friday December 4th, 2009 (2 notes)

  8. ➶ Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC

    Another former Apple executive who was there at the time [of certain tablet prototype presentations] said the tablets kept getting shelved at Apple because Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often memorable, asked, in essence, what they were good for besides surfing the Web in the bathroom.

    Steve clearly wouldn’t be entertained by this T-shirt, via lowindustrial

    Monday October 5th, 2009 (16 notes)