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Six amazing iPad stories…

Hat tip to The Verge for finding this new page on Apple’s site. It highlights the stories of six people using the iPad in ways even Apple never imagined. They may not be “all iPad all the time” but they’re … Continue reading

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T-Mobile to offer 200MB of FREE data every month for iPad Air and Mini with Retina

This is pretty great, and more than enough data for the inevitable times you want to check email or do some light surfing but don’t want to go through the hassle of enabling tethering from your phone. Very cool TMo! … Continue reading

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iTunes Radio so far…underwhelming

Given how great Spotify, Pandora and other streaming services are, iTunes Radio has to be more than good to carve itself a niche at this point. It has to be great. Apple great. The kind of great that makes you … Continue reading

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iOS 7: we finally search ALL emailboxes!

As a big email archiver, using folders, sub-folder, etc. the ability to search across multiple email folders was a feature whose absence on my iPad often annoyed the heck out of me. I installed iOS 7 on my iPhone 5 … Continue reading

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TouchID’s (AWESOME!!) future

Interesting iPhone 5s presentation today. I know that some people are inevitably disappointed by these announcements since almost nothing is unknown by the time of the actual presentation, TouchID hardware included. I’m actually really excited about this feature though. While … Continue reading

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First Seven iPad-Only ‘Steve Jobs Schools’ Open in the Netherlands – Mac Rumors

Wow! We should trade notes… http://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/21/first-seven-ipad-only-steve-jobs-schools-open-in-the-netherlands/

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Mobile Devices Overtake PC Sales at Lenovo

The largest PC maker in the world now gets more revenue from phones and tablets than from PCs. Remarkable. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/business/global/smartphones-and-tablets-outsell-pcs-at-lenovo.html

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PC Industry Fights to Adapt as Tablets Muscle In – NYTimes.com

“Still, there is a strong view among many longtime tech executives that the PC’s relevance will steadily diminish.” Amazing that what I thought the moment I first saw an iPad is now conventional wisdom. Scary that it’s happening faster than … Continue reading

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IDC Forecasts Worldwide Tablet Shipments to Surpass Portable PC Shipments in 2013, Total PC Shipments in 2015 – prUS24129713

Yeah I know that the Tablet market includes more than just the iPad, but the iPad is pretty much ubiquitous and obviously the primary driver here in terms of looking at any single product. These estimates are incredible. http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24129713

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ZDNet says Windows is Dead

Wow. ZDNet usually sides with Microsoft, as Slashdot points out. This is pretty interesting. http://m.slashdot.org/story/184811

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