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iPad and File Systems: Failure of Empathy

February 24, 2013 – 8:59 pm

Tweet  The iPad placed a clear bet on simplicity — and was criticized for it. The bet won. But now, can the iPad evolve toward more business applications without sacrificing its simplicity, without becoming a “fridge-toaster”? Three years ago, the iPad came out. The device was an immediate hit with customers and (most) critics. Steve [...]

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iPad Pro: The Missing Workflow

February 3, 2013 – 8:43 pm

Tweet  The iPad started simple, one window at a time, putting it in the “media consumption” category as a result. Over time, such category proved too narrow, the iPad did well in some content creation activities. Can the new 128 GB iPad continue the trend and acquire better workflow capabilities? Last week, without great fanfare, [...]

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iPad publishing: time to switch to v2.0

January 2, 2011 – 7:07 pm

TweetThere is no way around this fact: the first batch of magazines adapted to the iPad failed to deliver. Six months after the initial excitement, the mood has turned turned sour. See the figures below, they show the downturn in circulation for the much publicized iPad versions of a few American magazines: – Wired: 100,000 [...]

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Apple’s Next Macintosh OS

October 31, 2010 – 6:37 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Operating systems don’t age well. Some have better genes than others or they have more competent caretakers, but sooner or later they are stricken by a cancer of bug fixes upon bug fixes, upgrades upon upgrades. I know, I lived inside two OS sausage factories, Apple and Be, and was closely associated [...]

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iPad Media Apps: can do better

June 13, 2010 – 9:01 pm

TweetIt’s time for a first assessment of a few iPad media applications. To sum up: a) most are disappointing;  b) no need to worry. Instead of subjectively pointing fingers at hits and misses, let’s rise to a bird’s eye view and see if we can understand why some apps work and why others don’t. Then [...]

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Catching The iPad Wave: Seven Thoughts

April 5, 2010 – 8:32 am

Tweet1. Design The iPad is all about design, and interface expectations. From a graphic design standpoint, with the iPad, the quantum leap is its ability to render layouts, typefaces, page structure. No more web HTML lowest common denominator, here. What comes out from an art director gets WYSIWYGed on the iPad — if the implementation [...]

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Wanna see my Japanese etchings — on my iPad?

April 5, 2010 – 8:31 am

TweetThe frenzy surrounding Apple’s new product, the iPad, could give a new life to the old pickup line. I just got mine, that thing is an equal opportunity guy and chick magnet. Better than the proverbial (and fake) Ferrari car keys negligently dropped on the counter in a bar. Here, with the iPad, you can [...]

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iPad: Publishers look for the winning formula

February 21, 2010 – 10:49 pm

TweetAmong Australian media executives, like everywhere else, the talk of the town is the iPad. I was in Sydney this week, giving a talk at the Media 2010 conference. This gave rise to vibrant discussions of the ways in which the Apple device could transform our industry. Among the group of speakers, the most enthusiastic [...]

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Crowdsourcing Propaganda

February 14, 2010 – 11:45 pm

TweetOnce again, Apple, or, getting to the point, Steve Jobs defies common wisdom. This time it’s about communication, positioning, propaganda. Never let others take control of the story, don’t let anything go unanswered, ever. (Well, almost anything, there is the ‘When did you stop beating your wife’ exception.) The recent and still on-going –raging might [...]

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