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Bill Gates: iPad users are frustrated because they "can't type, can't create documents"

by Yoni Heisler (May 6th, 2013)

A long-time champion of tablet computing, one has to wonder how former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates feels given that Apple seemingly swooped in out of nowhere and quickly claimed the tablet market as its own in 2010. Indeed, the latest data from IDC indicates that the iPad amassed a 39.6 percent market ...

iPad commands lion's share of tablet market despite Samsung's gains

by Yoni Heisler (May 2nd, 2013)

The latest Q1 2013 research data from IDC shows that the market for tablets is absolutely booming, growing 142.4 percent year over year. To put that into context, IDC notes that the 49.2 million tablets shipped during the first three months of 2013 is greater than the number of tablets shipped ...

iPad tops J.D. Power's customer satisfaction survey for second year in a row

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 29th, 2013)

Once again, Apple's iPad has topped the J.D. Power and Associates ranking of tablets as it pertains to customer satisfaction. In its most recent survey, J.D. Power surveyed 1,857 tablet users who have owned a tablet for at least one year. The survey measured satisfaction across five factors; ...

Tabular for Mac makes reading and writing tab music easy

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 18th, 2013)

Chromatic Lab's Tabular (US$19.99) is an all-in-one application for reading, editing and writing tablature music with a Mac. If you're a musician, music teacher or composer of music, on a percussive or stringed instrument, and you use tablature instead of music notation, Tabular has got all the ...

New Prince of Persia on the way to iOS this summer

by Mike Schramm (Apr 12th, 2013)

Here's a nice blast from the past: Ubisoft has announced new Prince of Persia game, which is a remake of the second title in the series, made specifically for smartphones and tablets. Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame is being remade as a 2.5D action title -- it seems to feature the ...

Alleged Office roadmap says Office for iOS possibly not until 2014

by Mike Schramm (Apr 10th, 2013)

The rumor mill had previously stated that Office for iOS might be coming as soon as last month, but obviously that never happened. Now, an alleged roadmap for the Office family of products from Microsoft says we may not see Office for iOS this year at all. ZDNet reports that it has obtained a ...

Alan Kay has some choice criticisms about the iPad

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 4th, 2013)

To call Alan Kay brilliant is an understatement. Kay, in case you're unfamiliar with his work, is a Turing Award winner who played an integral role in the development of object-oriented programming. A highly respected computer scientist, Kay worked for many years at Xerox's famed Palo Alto ...

Injustice: Gods Among Us gets an original iOS version

by Mike Schramm (Apr 3rd, 2013)

Injustice: Gods Among Us is a game that's been coming to consoles for a while now -- it's a fighting game, made by the same team behind Mortal Kombat, that features DC Universe superheroes battling it out against each other. The team has released an iOS version of the game, and while it's not ...

Chitika: iPad usage still far outweighs tablet competitors

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2012)

Mobile ad network Chitika has released a report that says the iPad is still far, far ahead in terms of web usage over any other tablets out there. All you need to really know here is that the iPad isn't even on the chart above -- the chart above shows average impressions on tablets per 100 ...

New tablet owners share Christmas tweets, iPad on top

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 26th, 2012)

Anecdotal evidence from Twitter suggests there were a lot of new iPads under the Christmas tree. According to a graphic spotted by Andy Baio, the number of people proclaiming this is my "First tweet from my iPad" eclipses those tweeting for the first time from their Kindle Fire, Nexus 7 or ...

Morgan Stanley: iPad mini cannibalization "overblown"

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2012)

A survey of over 1,000 U.S. consumers was published today by Morgan Stanley and AlphaWise, showing that although sales of the iPad mini are cannibalizing sales of some of the full-size iPads, concerns over the trend are "overblown." That was the opinion of Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, ...

Stands du jour: TwoHands & MonkeyDo iPad stands impress

by Erica Sadun (Dec 10th, 2012)

When it comes to iPad stands, there are more options out there in the market than you can shake a stick at. If you're just looking for utility, you needn't look farther than a used roll of duct tape. Ugly but it works. Today's market is about combining utility with beautiful design and I found ...

Fourth generation iPad bests Playstation Vita in graphics power

by Mike Wehner (Nov 7th, 2012)

Portable gaming has come a long way in recent years, but in many ways the biggest push for gaming on the go has come from smartphone and tablet makers, rather than video game hardware manufacturers. Nowhere is this more apparent than a recent GPU throwdown test by AnandTech that shows the new ...

Microsoft: Surface display superior to iPad display

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 17th, 2012)

The iPad 3 is known for its gorgeous, high-resolution Retina display, but it is not the best tablet display, said a Microsoft engineer during a Reddit IAmA event on Tuesday. Though its display is a lower resolution, Microsoft claims the screen on its upcoming Surface tablet is even better than ...

iPad tops JD Power's tablet survey

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 17th, 2012)

A recent study by J.D. Power and Associates suggests iPad owners are overwhelmingly happy with their tablet purchase. The survey of 1,900 tablet owners found that the iPad ranks the highest for owner satisfaction. Respondents gave the iPad high marks for its performance, ease of operation, styling ...