Just a Big iTouch – Questions Mere Days Til iPad D-Day
April 2, 2010 by joe.bustillos
Filed under JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Media Buzz, featured
“Let me know how you like the ipad. It looks like a jumbo iphone to me 
,” I’ve gotten this question more than a few times in the past few months. And most of us have seen variations of the following Doritos ad, punking the idea that the iPad is just a big iPod/iTouch. Funny AND stupid.
So on April 1st many of the A-List reviewers released their reviews of the iPad. WSJ’s Walt Mosberg mused, Apple iPad Review: Laptop Killer? Pretty Close. NY Times columnist David Pogue doubled downed his review for the geeks and the non-geeks. One of the best video reviews I’ve seen was by Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Andy Ihnatko (see below).
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Interactive IKEA Catalog – Apple iPad?
January 7, 2010 by joe.bustillos
Filed under JBB's Digital Fiefdom, Past Featured Media, featured
Apple reserved presentation space for the end of January and the rumor mills is cranking up around the Apple netbook-thingy… At CES2010 everyone and their brother is announcing all sorts of tablet/slate/netbook/e-book readers devices, all trying to fight against the buzz of a device that hasn’t been announced yet. Amazing.
RollTop Laptop – Answering Yesterday’s Laptop Design Shortcomings
November 1, 2009 by joe.bustillos
Filed under JBB's Digital Fiefdom, featured
What could we do if we had flexible display materials? As advanced as the tech seems, it still might not fly because the rolled up size still seem too big when one thinks about how small and thin and light-weight the Apple Macbook Air, the Sony Vaio X- and P-series and the various netbooks already are. Flexible display materials are just beginning to show up, but there’s something in this design that’s answering problems from when the smallest usable laptops were the 15-inch/6-pound devices. Rolling up said 15-inch devices is still going to be at least 13-inches long and a rolled up girth of four-inches diameter. That’s awfully big when one considers that a lot of people are happy using an iPhone-sized device to do a lot of their communication/computer tasks.
