SXSW, Nonsensical Drama, and my Penguin Football Jersey
How about we start focusing more on the important stuff?
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The New Sleekness
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Tag: ebooks
August 13, 2010
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April 9, 2010
Kobo on iPad: The Dark Horse
I thought Blio would be the coming-up-from-behind candidate (maybe it’s because I’ve got a soft spot for Ray “the singularity is coming” Kurzweil), but so far, it’s Kobo. I’d never paid too much attention to Kobo (neé Shortcovers) before, since their ebook downloads insisted on the use of Adobe Digital Editions desktop software for reading [...]
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April 8, 2010
Kindle on iPad: The Incumbent
The Kindle on iPad app is an impressive improvement over the previous Kindle app for iPhone (Amazon seems to have updated the Kindle on iPhone app to match features with their iPad version. Good on them). Amazon has a lot riding on the strategy of being everywhere—considering that it’s inevitable that compared to devices like [...]
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April 7, 2010
iBooks on iPad: Home Field Advantage
By all accounts, iBooks is a beautiful app; a slick app, but almost too slick for its own good. In developing its iPad-native apps, Apple seems to have followed a relatively unified design paradigm: where apps have physical counterparts, they’ve designed the app to mimic the look of the physical object they’re intended to replace. [...]
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April 6, 2010
The iPad cometh. Kneel before Zod.
So like a good little fanboy, I spent my early Saturday morning exactly where the people who know me best expected me to be (going by the number of emails and txt messages I’ve received): standing in line at the Apple store in SoHo, waiting to get my hands on an iPad. So I’ve got [...]
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