Things you should know about the iPad
Ok, things you should know before you buy the ipad:
1.It sucks, complete censorship and it also is the first time apple has failed to deliver. Apple’s censorship of applications is worse than China’s google censorship
2.Launch on April 1 definately means that you will be fooled to believe that it is an ipad but it is actually a fujitsu ipad.
3.Steve ballmer will pull put a toshiba tablet in full public view and celebrate free application installations and multitasking on windows 7.
4.It has too much bezel and it sucks in it’s appearence
5.Walt Mossberg’s comment: “It is Abou the software, stupid!!” totally rules
6.Way too costly… Next time around maybe apple should stick to selling unicorns and fairies. Not tablets.
7.Epic fail projections, 5 million ipads within this year end is totally crazy.
8.”Money, money money, must be funny in a rich mans world”
9.Litigations galore
10.Please jailbreak for suitable use
“Thou shall not touch the iPad!”
iPad: Initial thoughts
Sheer disappointment I say! Are the first thoughts that come to my mind when I think of ipad…
Ipad is a Tablet made by apple Inc. It was unvield 2 days back at an invitation only event. Apple usually fails to disappoint. This time around, they did.
A few observations:
1)It still runs iPhone os even though it is a tablet. IMHO, iPhone os is nice on a 3″ touchscreen. Not on a 9.7″!
2)It is still micromanaged by apple. People have to still go through the app store for any approval. Being a tablet, it should freely allow 3rd party to flow through, not approve of what apps are supposed to come or go. I want to see chrome on the ipad…
3)3 revisions later, apple has still not realized that multitasking is the need of the hour. I want to talk to my friend on facebook while I am typing out a mail!!
4) It runs a good custom made AppleA4 chip of 1GHz.
5) Apple in no way has revolutionized the book world. Alright, you have a good books application, but, nah, not really worth it.
5) $699 for 64gb!? WTH!?(sorry, but that is too costly!!)
Nah. I want iPhone os 4.0 to have multitasking or else apple will fail!
ZOMG! IS THIS APPLE TABLET!?
APPLE TABLET!? !!!
(Image Courtesy: http://engadget.com)
ZOMG! What timing! What an Image!? So awesome! Officially codenamed at apple as “K48″, This could very well be the new apple tablet! As Engadget notes, this image was recieved from the same tipster who gave them the 3Gs tip! If we were to go by the guy there, he even mentions that iPhone will move over to Verizon and the Tablet will also land up there!
My Comment on the photo would be: It is a MEGA sized iPod touch, which has a network(Judging by the tip and the “No Service” on top!). This machine IMO would be connected on the go like the Kindle. It is worth a staggering $800! But that is a part of the Apple tax we pay for their beautiful products! 
For Verizon, so far, it has been an awesome beginning for the new year, the WebOS Platform and the Android land up there, now maybe, iPhone’s turn! The Tipster states, it will be a 10″ iPhone with a MacBook-esque casing. And disappointingly, no MacBook upgrades apparently! When will common mortals like me and you get the SD card slot on the MacBook!? 
. Let us just wait and watch for the results.
Of iSlate, Touch-Screen iMac & Super-Sized iPod Touches.
My Dear, and indeed Lovely, Marketing guy from Apple!
You pwnt the net! You have indeed managed to make Apple Tablet a huge *want* product, even before, people took a look at it!
Here are a few rumors going round…
1) The Device is a Multi-Touch Book Reader running the iPhone OS and it will be a wonderfully gesture based device.
My Take: Ofcourse Multi-touch! iPhone OS is a light OS, and can be a possibility, because, the current Snow Leopard Build is large, and
has small buttons and cannot be *Really* pressed unless you are using a resistive touch screen. You may land up pressing minimize when
you are trying to maximize…
2) The OS is meant only for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3Gs…
My Take: Hmm… Tough one… Phasing out support for the 1st gen iPhone or iPhone 2G will certainly hit ‘em hard! Even though, the contracts
for the iPhone 2G ran out last year, does not imply, the user may not extend his contract… Yeah, you mentioning that “hardware limitations are possible”,
I’d say, yeah, iPhone 2G, still, even NOW cannot receive MMSes and do lots of things that a 3G or 3Gs can… But bottomline: It is all a possibility…
3) The Device is gonna run on LED screens like the new MacBook and iMac and will have a discreet GPU
My Take: Yes. Apple seems to have fallen in Love with LED screens, and MacBooks, iMacs, come with LED displays, with the exception of the iPhone and iPod
Line up. LED’s consume less power and stay on for longer… <3 LED!
4) The Device is gonna have a Barnes and Nobles Book Store…
My take: What is the point of the NOOK!? 
Wait for tomorrows result!
iMac and the new MacBooks, worth it?
Ok, iMac and macbooks released, but here is the question: Are they well worth it?
Look at it this way:
MacBook:
- The MacBook is now a SOLID machine, but a bit hard to maintain. It is just as powerful as the 13″ MBP, just cheaper
- The MacBook has lost FireWire and lacks a SD Card slot, something even a 2002 lappy from sony had. $200 for Aluminum, firewire, SD card.
- At the same $999 price point, it just doesn’t go down well with me. When will you compete with Laptop Hunter ads!?
iMac:
- 16:9 aspect ratio is awesome, needed long ago, never the less, “better late than never”.
- The screen is gorgeous. It looks much better and increases the want to buy factor. And THIS imac comes with the built in SD Card slot.
- $1199, 3.06 GHz standard. Very competitive for a all in one I must add.
And Apple also gave some spec bumps to the MacMini and Time Capsule, releasing Mac Mini server edition with out a superdrive and comes with Snow Leopard Server edition and 2×500 GB hdds, and 2 TB time capsules. Apple also released the Magic Mouse, without buttons and does a few multi-touch gestures.
My Advice:
Go for the iMac, and not for the MacBook. MacBook can be bought next year perhaps when the give us the basic SD Card facility and the Firewire.
iMac is RECOMMENDED
Dear Apple, get up!
Dear Apple,
Apple is not the same as it was like 2-3 years back. They have underperformed consistently over the last year. Even Zune HD decodes 720p videos better than the iPod Touch! Apple wake up! HTC Hero and Palm can do something that your phone can’t even do! It can multi task and have push notifications, push notifications are nice, but then, not the same as multi-tasking, you people claimed that multi-tasking reduces the battery life, but here is the bad news, It doesn’t, Android and WebOS have just proved that, Multi-tasking does NOT drain battery life. Better include it in 4.0 or you people are pretty much in trouble in the consumers eyes, Because a lot of them including me are considering a shift to HTC Hero, cause it is awesome, and does things you cannot, and more over, it comes with a much better camera than what 3GS offers.
People like me and the general public are quite disappointed that you haven’t made us stand in lines just for the sake of buying a phone, it would have been much better if you release SOMETHING revolutionary. I remember the lines which you had for the iPhone 2G and 3G in the USA and all places alike. The people made a killing by selling their spot for thousands of dollars. Look at 3GS, it lacked the same power. All these years, you released mind blowing phones and mind blowing high tech lappys. Today it is not the same, you have competitors, beat them. It is not just enough that you beat Dell in share prices, you must beat them even in manufacturing. And coming to your iTunes policy, can’t you people be competitive enough to accept applications that better your own? Like Google Voice for example, you must remember that when you know someone is better than you, you must train well enough to be better than them, not to assassinate them. Google Voice, I believe was assassinated without any reason, no cause whatsoever, and the general Public is of the opinion that At&T is responsible for all this mess, cause Google Voice can do free SMSes and VoIP, which At&T sees as a threat. Irrespective of which AT&T’s network coverage sucks.
P.S:Move away from AT&T, as the video says, “It’s a revolutionary device crippled by poor service…”
And support the campaign! Improve service and make our lives better!
Your Loving fan,
Ashvala
What is HTC upto now!? It is down!!
HD2 is releasing!
OMG! Another Windoze phone! Cant you release an Andriod already!?
Achievements for the blog! Yipee!
We are now breaking into one of the top blogs! Searches like “iPwn” “Ubuntu 9.04 macbook 2,1″ shows the blog on the first page on google! This pwns!
YAy!!!!!!
HTC Touch2 released. Rather, via the HTC India page.
http://www.htc.com/in/product/touch2/overview.html
Hmm! Htc touch2 is out!
HTC Touch2
Comes with winmo 6.5(*Immediately throws out the idea of getting the phone!*).
I recommend not to buy this cause it runs WinDoze (im)mobile.
MacBook Air Review.
MacBook Air, “the world’s thinnest and most functional notebook (for its size)” is all i can say in short.
MacBook Air was unvield at the MacWorld 2008. It was hailed as the thinnest notebook ever made. And now it has a graphics chip(nVidia 9400m), 120 GB standard HDD. I will give my 5 + points and 5 – points as follows:
Positives:
- The device by itself is very thin.
- The device is very functional for its size
- The screen is just awesome, very bright and very usable
- The light sensors pwn.
- The discrete GPU(nVidia 9400m).
Negatives:
- The device is too costly.
- The device has only 1 USB port. 2 would be better.
- The device has no changable HDD or Battery, you need to return the device to apple incase anything goes bad on your machine
- The lack of superdrive is worrysome. You need to buy that $99 superdrive that you should plug in as the CD drive. I can understand it lacks it because of the thinness.
- The device has no ethernet. It should be built in. Yea, but it increases the size, putting Dell XPS Adamo at first, it is likely apple wont do it cause Dell is their arch rival(considered “sinister fiend”).
Final Word:
It is a good travel lappy, and a very portable one(as opposed to the MacBook & MacBook Pro’s). I recommend you buy it IF you have the money and are willing to spend the extra buck for this cool machine.
