Each week, Bowdoin Chief Information Officer Mitch Davis offers a look at news and trends in technology, gadgets, inventions, or just something worth checking out. It’s called “One Cool Thing.”
The best new gadget has to be the iPad. Google, Microsoft, HTC, and HP are all trying to come out with something like the iPad before Apple owns the market. Apple will be wildly successful with this new device because of all the iPhone apps that port right over. I can’t figure out who the typical iPad buyer is from the people I know buying them. From 3 yr. olds, to grandmothers, to programmers, the iPad seems to have a very wide market.
Eric Chown a professor in Computer Science is using the iPad and iTouch to teach programming this semester. Ben Johnson, a Bowdoin student has already started his own company to build iPhone applications. He built the Bowdoin Dining App after winning a Gibbons grant to work over the summer on the project. Meanwhile, Bowdoin IT’s Jason Pelletier offers a review of the iPad from a user’s perspective…
Apple may have created a juggernaut with an iPad/iPhone “one, two punch” that will be difficult for other companies to match any time soon. The battle brewing between Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and Apple will be fun to watch. Palm is the first casualty. Who’s next?
Another iPad casualty.
Microsoft has cancelled Courier, the folding, two-screen prototype tablet that was first uncovered by Gizmodo.
I think Palm just got bought by HP. Curious to see what kind of product they produce to try to compete.
HP Slate is now dead. The iPad challengers are being dropped faster than a hot potato.
HP terminated the HP Slate project. Since Steve Ballmer unveiled the HP Slate prototype at CES–an attempt to steal the thunder from the impending announcement of the Apple iPad–the Slate has been the poster child and champion for everything the iPad isn’t.
An early review of an HP Slate prototype revealed what many already suspected–the Slate is more like a slow, handicapped PC forced into a flat-panel form factor than a tablet device. Essentially, it is in fact a touchscreen netbook without a keyboard.
Palm is dead.
This will only delay it for awhile.
HP will try to resuscitate a product that is already technically lagging behind its peers.