To those running around with older iPads, don’t bother to open your wallet for Apple’s new iPad launched yesterday. The new iPad Air is not worth the extra $599 (32GB), $699 (64GB) or more if you want higher storage. Apple CEP Tim Cook with iPad Air (Pix: WSJ) Except for a new A7 64-bit processor […]
For those keeping track of the iPad or other digital media devices, here are a bunch of tables that reveal how quickly the Apple iPad has become a market-leading tablet and the darling of consumers. Microsoft, Asus, Google, Dell, Acer, Motorola, Blackberry and dozens of other vendors developed iPad envy seeing the wild success of […]
Nokia today released its first tablet, the Lumia 2520. The 10.1-inch Lumia 2520 competes with Nokia’s soon-to-be-parent Microsoft’s Surface 2 tablet. The Windows RT 8.1 based Lumia tablet has no hopes of success in the marketplace. But it has one big plus – the tablet offers both WiFi and cellular data connectivity (requires extra monthly […]
Some companies, like some people, are bizarrely stupid – They refuse to heed the lessons of past errors. Microsoft’s first generation Surface tablets (both the Surface RT and Surface Pro) were a mega-disaster. So big a disaster that Microsoft incurred a loss of nearly a billion dollars in its last quarter to account for unsold […]
HP CEO and failed governor candidate Meg Whitman must be one crazy woman! Why else would HP announce FIVE new Android and Windows tablets when most vendors of these tablets are struggling to sell their devices and not lose too much money. Android tablet vendors are in a price war to the bottom while Windows […]
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Surface tablets have few takers. To account for the huge inventory piling up in warehouses and on shelves of its stores, Microsoft took a charge of $900 million in its last quarter. Now Microsoft’s desperation to sell its Surface tablets has reached a new high that it’s plumbing new depths […]