random thoughts

it is interesting to read all of the comments about the ipad that have been posted on blogs across the web. there are those that complain about missing features (like the missing camera or missing multi-tasking) and they are certainly the ones in the majority of the complainers — interestingly this is also the group [...]

i don’t know if this story is true:
Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT, is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15.
but if it is, i have to say that amazon and bezos is really stupid. [...]

in all of the ipad coverage one thing comes up a lot and that is that this new apple device is not all that new … that there have been tablets before, just take a look at the microsoft tablets. but that is like telling the inventor of the car that there are already modes [...]

so my first thought on the apple ipad is that corporate IT departments have 60 days to ready their organizations for the ipad because the key market for the device will be corporate white collar workers.

ok so the first site was npr, a clean site with fairly static information that only changes when necessary, focusing on the big stories. reuters obviously is a news agency and its job is to provide all the news. but over the years they have also increased their footprint in more in-depth story telling and [...]