January 2010
2 posts
iPad versus e-ink
Real e-readers have e-ink on their side because I will never read a book that is blasting light at my face.
Unfortunately, latency is still a crippling problem with e-ink, and full color would be nice to have, but once these issues are resolved I’ll be a happy reader of e-books. That said, let’s see an LCD device that has e-ink on the backside!*
* Yes, the idea is that obvious,...
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iPad is neat, unremarkable
To me, iPad is unremarkable. Since I have a smartphone and a laptop, it’s as useful to me as Microsoft Surface. The plain merger of the two devices isn’t appealing, but I’ll concede and rebut the usual Apple points:
The display probably makes up for the lack of camera(s).
The UI probably makes up for the lack of 3rd party background apps.
The cool probably makes up for...