Apple made the arguments today to U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal in federal court in San Jose. Apple’s bid to expand the lawsuit follows Samsung’s Oct. 1 move to add patent- infringement claims against the iPhone 5 in the same case.
Here we go.
Farhad Manjoo:
But it didn’t take me a week and a half to decide whether the Surface is better than the iPad. At most it took a couple days, and that’s being generous. You’d likely arrive at the same conclusion after playing with the Surface for just a few minutes in a Microsoft Store. That’s because the new tablet’s flaws are glaring.
Farhad is definitely not a fan.
The best-selling ‘David Gilmour In Concert’ full-length show, originally released on DVD, is now available as an App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
It’s being released November 19.
Harry Marks corrects Dan Lyons.
Google is so much faster. […]
Thomas Verschoren gives his thoughts based on resolution and dpi.
Microsoft has revealed exactly how much free space new Surface owners are left with after taking into account Windows RT and system-related files. For the 32GB version of the new tablet, users have access to only 16GB of storage, with the remaining half taken up by Windows recovery tools, Windows RT, Microsoft Office, and built-in apps.
Seriously Microsoft, WTF?
The first paragraph alone is worth the read. Great article from Crosby Churchil.
First the mainstream media pointed out how nobody was standing in line for the new iPads and sales were going to suck. Then when Apple announced this morning that they sold 3 million iPads in three days, the conspiracy theories started. […]
Apple today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March.
So much for the people that said it wasn’t going to sell.
Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White is also at the Fifth Avenue store and has been monitoring availability of the various models. According to White, all three models of the white Wi-Fi iPad mini sold out in a little over an hour, with the black models following suit after about two hours. No additional shipments are expected at the store today.
Not bad at all.
But shortly before 8 a.m., when the store usually opens for a new launch, I had a headcount of 550. According to the records Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster has been keeping since 2008 (see below), that’s more customers than turned out for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S.And by 9:56 a.m. — four minutes before the doors finally opened — I counted 801 men, women and children. Only the iPhone 4 (1,300) and iPad 2 (1,190) drew bigger crowds.
I love how the iPad can instantly change the way we do things.
I figured the least I could do is to explain my decision in full – I like to think it might help protect you from nasty break-ups like this in the future.
This is the longest, most boring break-up letter in history. Please Ed, just go.
“Apple’s innovation is sputtering,” [Trip] Chowdhry wrote in a research note to clients. “Why is that Apple, the company that brought touch to phones and tablets, stopped just there and did not bring touch to notebooks and iMacs? Why is it that Apple brought high-resolution screens to…some MacBooks and not to all devices? High-resolution screens are a commodity today.”
Well Trip, people tend to use computers in a different way than they use tablets and phones. It makes no sense to push out touch enabled displays on products that people expect to use a keyboard and mouse.
Apple does use high-resolution displays, but Retina displays are not a commodity. With a price conscious customer in mind, Apple has to balance its products to offer the best it can for a reasonable price.
I hope that answered your question Trip.
I tried this today out of necessity because I was carrying too many things. The iPad mini easily fit into my back pocket and was comfortable to walk with it in there. […]
Jim and Dan talk about Jim’s review of the new iPad mini with comparisons to other 7 and 8-inch tablets, Jim’s new Retina MacBook Pro 13-inch, the recent Apple executive restructuring, and more.
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I picked up my iPad mini and iPad 4 from Apple just after the special event ended last week in San Jose and have been using them ever since. I haven’t used the mini to the exclusion of my iPad, but I wanted to see where this new device would fit into my lifestyle without being forced. […]
Steve Ballmer’s response when asked how the reception for the Surface was in the first few days:
Numerically there’s not really much that’s interesting to report.
Well that is interesting. After the first three days on the market Apple announced the iPad 3 sold three million units.
“In every category Apple competes, it’s the low-volume player, except in tablets.’
Oh, and that iPhone thing that’s as big as your entire company. Stay classy Ballmer.
Conan is having fun with this.
“Wednesday was the $199 Kindle Fire HD’s biggest day of sales since launch and up 3x week over week.”
Does that mean they sold 20 Kindles? Could be, who knows. Without the numbers, Amazon’s word means nothing.
This is what their canceled press conference was all about.
Other companies could only wish for this kind of success.
Rene Ritchie copyedited Amazon’s Kindle ad comparing it against the iPad mini.
Exactly.
John Kirk pulls them all together.
Simple and to the point. […]
A new Surface ad shows a guy jumping into a pool with his guitar. I’d throw every surface ever made into the water before I harmed a single guitar.
Late night show host Conan O’Brien took a swipe at Apple’s new iPad mini in Wednesday night’s monologue with a spoof on the new TV ad.