Archive : Opinion

A report from JPMorgan Chase notes that companies hoping to compete with the Apple iPad have gotten a lukewarm reception with consumers. As a result, production output has been reduced. View article: IPad Rivals Tablets Fail to Gain Customer Traction – NYTimes.com  Read More »

A Chinese teenager recently broke his mother’s heart when he revealed that he’d undergone a risky surgery to remove and sell his kidney — in order to purchase an iPad 2. The Telegraph reports that the 17-year-old decided … Visit site: Digital Life – Boy sells kidney for iPad 2  Read More »

Despite previously killing a tablet PC initiative, Microsoft is reportedly feverishly working with its partners on Windows 7-powered tablets. Some think this is an attempt to catch up to Apple by creating an iPad killer. While I think there may be a place for a Windows-powered tablet, I definitely don’t think Microsoft can produce an iPad killer.... Read More »

Mobclix, a mobile ad exchange network for devices like the iPhone and iPad, released on Monday new statistics on iOS devices for the month of July. Unsurprisingly, games are the largest category of software on the iPad App Store, representing 20 percent of all options. Within that category, users spend far more time using their iPad than on the iPhone.... Read More »

Fortune reports on a new research report from Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore, which shows that if the iPad were to be categorized as a portable computer along with netbooks and notebooks, Apple would have held the third highest share of global portable computer sales for the second quarter of this year behind HP and Lenovo. Apple’s jump... Read More »

It might be high summer but Apple’s iPad is already tipped to be this Christmas’s best-selling gadget, the UK’s largest electrical retailer said last Thursday. The iPad has been available since late May but DSG International (DSGi) – which owns 670 Currys and PC World stores in the UK – backed Apple’s tablet computer... Read More »