Steve Jobs' handpicked reviewers have tested his latest creation and pronounced it a winner
Photo: Apple Inc.
The first three reviews of Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer were posted Wednesday night -- each, coincidentally, from newspapers that are developing their own iPad apps.
The verdicts are strikingly similar, although each writer reaches it by a different path.
Walt Mossberg, writing for the Wall Street Journal, starts with the assumption that to succeed the iPad MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2010 10:55 PM ET
Don't expect a deluge of new apps like the one that flooded the iPhone App Store in 2008
Source: Appcelerator
"It's going to be a slow burn," says Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, speaking about the arrival of original apps for the iPad tablet computer that goes on sale this Saturday.
Decrem has a unique perspective on such things. He's co-creator of the Tap Tap music game, one of the thousands of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2010 7:02 PM ET
In this episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael compare Apple's (AAPL) closed-system strategy to Google's (GOOG) more open approach.
Mason Cohn, Producer - Mar 31, 2010 1:04 PM ET
While demand for BlackBerries and Palm Pres is drying up, according to ChangeWave
Source: ChangeWave Research
Take this with the usual grain of salt, based, as it is, on a survey of early adopters who have already decided to buy a smartphone in the next three months.
But in a ChangeWave report released Wednesday, 30% of respondents said they would prefer to have a phone running Google's (GOOG) Android operating system -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2010 11:53 AM ET
With its market cap at $213.9 billion, only two U.S. companies are bigger than Apple
Here's one way to measure Apple's (AAPL) progress in March, a month in which its stock price set 11 all-time highs.
On March 9, a few days after the company announced the iPad's ship date, Apple's market capitalization (share price times shares outstanding) was $198.5 billion, making it one of the five most valuable U.S. companies, right MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2010 6:34 AM ET
Self-branding fatigue is hitting surfers. Who wants to be accountable all the time?
The great breakthrough of the social web is that you can be known. That tangle of relationships that ties you to your identity offline is increasingly approximated online, and web sites from Amazon (AMZN) to Zynga invite users to log on with social networking handles in order to interact with their real-life friends and colleagues. So it's curious MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Mar 31, 2010 6:00 AM ET
The iPhone will probably go to Verizon eventually. But in the short term, that may not be where it's headed. Photo: Apple.
People tend to talk about the iPhone going to Verizon as if it would be all upside for Apple and Verizon, and all downside for AT&T. That's not quite correct.
It would be a big deal, however. Since its debut three years ago, AT&T (T) has been the exclusive MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 30, 2010 7:45 PM ET
Biotech companies argue that a judge's ruling against DNA patents will slow their life-saving work. Instead they should move quickly to come up with a better, more collaborative way to protect and share findings. Time to get creative.
By David Ewing Duncan, contributor
Who owns our DNA -- those long sequences of As, Gs, Ts, and Cs that make us who we are and contain hidden clues to diseases MORE
Mar 30, 2010 4:11 PM ET
Fortune contributor Michal Lev-Ram talks to AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega about the carrier's efforts to strengthen its wireless network.
Mason Cohn, Producer - Mar 30, 2010 12:27 PM ET
With a new fake Apple news site, two TBWA\Chiat\Day veterans bite the hand that fed them
Source: Scoopertino
A sampling of the headlines from Scoopertino, the "insanely funny" fake news site that launched Tuesday:
Steve Jobs set to explode: Apple CEO to use iPhone app to demolish historic Jackling house following legal victory
Apple board fractures in Steve Jobs salary spat: Angry CEO demands pay boost to $1.05 per year
Pentagon licenses Reality Distortion MORE
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