Steve Jobs' handpicked reviewers have tested his latest creation and pronounced it a winner
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 must be a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2010 10:55 PM ET
The PBS talk show devotes 23 minutes to singing the praises of Steve Jobs' latest creation
In a segment that aired Thursday night, the Charlie Rose Show invited three A-list tech commentators -- the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, the New York Times' David Carr and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington -- to gush about (and find a few faults with) Apple's (AAPL) iPad.
[UPDATE: A YouTube version of the video has become available MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 6, 2010 6:15 AM ET
Cornered by a reporter, he lets slip a few more details about the iPad
All Things Digital's Kara Swisher, who carried a digital camcorder to Apple's (AAPL) iPad event for her BoomTown blog, has posted some rare footage of Steve Jobs in the crush of reporters at the foot of the stage after his presentation Wednesday.
It's framed as a kind of Walt Mossberg sandwich, with slices of the Wall Street Journal's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 29, 2010 12:07 PM ET
Reading between the lines of Walt Mossberg and David Pogue's reviews
It's a given that Windows 7, scheduled for release Thursday, is an improvement over Vista. But how does it stack up against Apple's (AAPL) Snow Leopard?
At moments like this we look to the well-compensated deans of tech journalism: The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and the New York Times' David Pogue.
The caveats in Mossberg's review were summarized here two weeks MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 8, 2009 6:18 AM ET