February 2011
Motorola Bashes Apple in ‘1984′ Superbowl Ad
(via)Apple, not “Big Brother,” is watching you.
At least, that’s what Motorola wants you to think.
Motorola Compares Apple To Big Brother In New Superbowl Ad
(via)Back in 1984, Apple introduced the Mac with its famous 1984 Superbowl ad. Now Motorola is invoking some of the same ideas to promote its Xoom tablet, but this time, Apple is Big Brother.
December 2010
Blackberry Playbook
(via)Another fruity brand is fighting for pole position. The Blackberry line decides to stomp its foot on the tablet arena and joins the fray with the Playbook.
November 2010
Analyst: iPad Takes 95 Percent of Market
(via)More confirmation of what most already assumed: Apple’s iPad dominates the tablet market. Earlier, we reported 80 percent of people considering a tablet plan to buy an iPad.
May 2010
Bill Gates: Pen-Based Tablets Will Beat the iPad, At Least With Students
(via)Apple’s iPad might have sold one million units in just a month, but that’s not impressing Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who thinks that the iPad’s touch-only input approach will ultimately lose to pen-based tablets… at least with students:
April 2010
Apple’s iPad: One Small Step for Tablets, One Giant Leap for Personal Computers
(via)On the eve of the launch of Apple’s iPad, I am thinking of Ed Roberts. He never became a household name, but as the man behind the Altair computer — a kit for lunatic tech hobbyists released in 1975 — he was responsible for launching the microcomputer era.
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