Tputh

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New site curating tech and design news. I dig it.

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Bill Gates: iPad will struggle without pen and
keyboard

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 10 February 2010 09:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

The iPad needs to be more like the Tablet PC to be successful, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argue...

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HoudahGeo 2.4 add support for compass and speed
readings

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Houdah Software today announces the immediate availability of HoudahGeo 2.4, the premiere photo[...]

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HoudahGeo 2.4 reinvents iPhone geocoding

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Houdah Software today announces the immediate availability of HoudahGeo 2.4, the premiere photo[...]

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Kingston adds TRIM support, ups speed of 2nd-gen
SSDs

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 10 February 2010 08:35:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Memory maker Kingston on Wednesday outlined the changes it has made to its upcoming second-generatio...

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Pentax teases 645D camera for next month

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Pentax Japan has added a teaser on its main page that indicates the digital version of the Pentax 64...

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In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Microsofts
Profit Comes From

post from Daring Fireball on 10 February 2010 07:44:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nice chart from Alley Insider, showing Microsoft’s operating profit by division.

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Im Too Late

post from Daring Fireball on 10 February 2010 07:26:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

I missed this last month. Ends up a financial analyst last month really did issue a pre-preliminary estimate of how much it’s costing Apple to manufacture the iPad — three weeks before Apple announced it. Jiminy. (Via Louis Gerbarg.)

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Apple to sell TV shows for $1 at iPad launch

Apple could surprise iPad buyers by halving the price of TV shows on iTunes by the time the tablet i...

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WSJ Op-Ed Piece by Holman W. Jenkins Jr. Argues
Apple Is Getting All Microsofty

Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on the iPad:

And what about Apple’s decision to exclude Flash? Apple and its supporters stake out aesthetic and philosophical grounds: Flash is buggy. Flash is a power hog. Flash is “proprietary” (horrors). Flash is used to create those annoying Web ads (never mind that advertising is what pays for most of the Web).

Uh huh. Flash would also allow iPhone and iPad users to consume video and other entertainment without going through iTunes. Flash would let users freely obtain the kinds of features they can only get now at the Apple App Store.

So his argument is that no matter how bad Flash is technically and experience-wise, Apple should add it to the iPad so people can watch Hulu. And that there’s no other way to obtain video for the iPad other than stuff you buy from iTunes. Jiminy.

I suppose that if you really miss things like Hulu and animated web ads, it makes sense to argue that Apple should support Flash on iPhone OS not matter what. I honestly don’t see how anything regarding the iPad, the iTunes Store, or Apple’s policy toward Flash is in any way reminiscent of Microsoft, though. I’d say the iPad only serves to bring into relief just how different the two companies have become. Perhaps what Jenkins is getting at is Apple’s willingness to impose its will, to make decisions rather than offer choices.

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