Initial thoughts on the iPad.

January 27, 2010

We weren’t exactly surprised with Apple’s revealing of the iPad today. Aside from our dislike of “iPad,” the device does look pretty good, though it’s clearly not as revolutionary as many people hoped. While usage reports are sure to trickle in soon, we’ll take this time to look back at the post we made last [...]

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mendax.iphone v3.0.

January 27, 2010

With word-on-the-street that the iTablet will emerge from the Pandora’s Box that is Apple’s campus later today, and with all signs pointing towards the iTablet leveraging the iPhone’s version of OS X (and with it, the AppStore), it makes sense to identify apps that no iPhone user should be without. That is to say, must-have [...]

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Three iTablet needs, three need-nots, and three things that’d be nice to have.

January 21, 2010

The reason we’re so enthused about Apple’s rumoured tablet computer is because its proposed mobility suits our lifestyle. Simply put, our MacBook Pro is too big to comfortably cart across the country often, and our iPhone doesn’t offer key functionality that we need in our road-warrior lifestyle. While there’s already some middle ground in the [...]

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WoW’s easy-mode is what makes the new LFG system win.

January 12, 2010

In a reply to SynCaine over at Hardcore Casual, commenter Mig borrows from Palahniuk’s Fight Club by acutely noting how World of Warcraft’s (WoW’s) glorified new looking-for-group (LFG) system does little more than create “single-serving friends.” The lack of difficulty in most instance encounters, combined with the ease of being able to quickly enter such [...]

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iTablet AppStore has its downsides.

January 11, 2010

By now, the rumour-wagon has settled on the idea that Apple’s purported tablet device, to be unveiled on the 27th, will run a mobile version of OS X (possibly the same OS as iPhone 4.0). The logical follow-up is that this tablet will also acquire its applications from iTunes, just like the iPhone does with [...]

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