tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56334472024-02-08T10:35:03.583-06:00The Leibman TheoryAlways Sincere. Often Lucid.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633447.post-32097656400292982042012-12-20T21:18:00.000-06:002012-12-21T12:44:51.988-06:00Small is Beautiful: The iPad Mini
A month ago, I sold my 3rd-generation, Retina-screen
iPad and bought an iPad Mini. It was inevitable, given my taste in equipment: I
never owned an iPod before the Nano. My favorite pre-Intel Mac was the 12” PowerBook.
Before 2009, I never even considered a MacBook Pro because they started at 15”.
The day the 11” MacBook Air was announced I told my wife it was my next
computer. And since Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633447.post-73343485772563053142012-12-13T14:40:00.001-06:002012-12-13T16:05:53.317-06:00Not a Mac, Not a PC: Is the iPad a computer?Even
the staunchest tablet computing skeptics will probably concede that yes, in
the literal sense, the iPad is a computer. It has a processor, memory, storage, and
runs software. But
I suspect many would still cling to the notion that in some fundamental
respects, the
iPad is something different. Certainly we see this played out in market share statistics, which often count the iPad and other Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633447.post-12700239689532754092012-12-06T16:02:00.000-06:002012-12-13T10:41:15.641-06:00No, Compromises: The Microsoft Surface “Oh, my God, we have
so, so many of them.”
The exasperation in the associate’s voice told me all I
needed to know about Surface sales—this was not a supply chain success story.
No, the Microsoft store had a lot of Surface tablets, and it wasn’t supposed
to. Digitimes reports Microsoft cut component orders by half, Piper Jaffray recorded zero sales in a two-hour observation period on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com