Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet – Some Quick Thoughts
Image Source: The Verge Yesterday evening Microsoft held a special event to announce their new tablet / PC called Surface. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer described it as being a PC and a tablet – and...
View ArticleOh Good, Now There’s a Head-to-Head Review of iPad vs. The Tablet That...
I’ve got great news for you if you’re a fan of apples to watermelons type comparisons. There’s a wonderful iPad 3 vs. Surface head-to-head style review at a site called Trusted Reviews. Maybe it’s...
View ArticleSurface Sales Estimates Are Bleak, Microsoft Thinks Better Marketing Will...
Predictions and estimates offered last week for the early sales numbers for Microsoft’s Surface tablet line don’t paint a very pretty picture. They’re pretty bleak in fact – especially considering how...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Surface Tablets ‘Officially a Flop’
Lots more bad news for Microsoft and their Surface tablets this week. Microsoft’s most recent financial results filing (for their fiscal year that ended June 30 of this year) show a total of $853...
View ArticleNow Microsoft Lowers Price on Surface Pro Too
Following its big recent price cuts on the Surface RT tablet line, Microsoft has now dropped the price for its Surface Pro tablets by $100. As The Verge reports, Microsoft has confirmed that customers...
View ArticleThe Challenging State of the Tablet Market
Before Apple’s stock price soared to even greater heights this week thanks to strong iPhone sales, growing services revenues, and rumors of spectacular devices to come, we got the bad news about iPad...
View ArticleMy Pixelbook Experiment Was a Bit of a False Start
So I ended up returning the Pixelbook that I picked up to review and wrote about a couple of weeks ago. This was more of a false start than a failure, though. I hit day 14 (BestBuy’s last day to...
View ArticleA Month with the Surface Go: Hardware Design and Build Quality
As I mentioned in a previous post, I picked up the higher end of the two Surface Go models right after release, along with a Type Cover and a Surface Pen. I’ve taken my time with the device, and used...
View ArticleReview: UAG Metropolis Series Case for the Microsoft Surface Go
I know what some of you are thinking. Why am I reviewing an accessory for the Surface Go on an Apple and iPad-centric site? Well, in case you haven’t seen, I have already written about the fact that I...
View ArticleDespite Straw Man Arguments to the Contrary, the Post-PC Era is Very Real
And it’s a good thing for ALL of us The iPad has been with us for almost 10 years now and the personal computer hasn’t died. If anything, Windows PC and Mac sales have recovered from past swoons....
View ArticleWhy Apple Hasn’t Admitted a Thing to Microsoft or Tom Warren
Earlier today I read an article by Tom Warren at The Verge entitled Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets. I wasn’t especially surprised considering that Warren has always been...
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