July 2011
Family ties earn this Smart Cover knock-off a Samsung certification and a place on their store shelves
(via)Apple is suing “the copyist” Samsung because they “imitate the appearance of Apple’s products to capitalize on Apple’s success”. Be that as it may, the similarities between the two tech giant’s gadgets are nothing compared to what other Asian knockoffs are doing for a living. Like Anymode Corp., which is in the business of designing, manufacturing and selling a blatant Smart Cover rip-off, pictured above and below.
February 2011
Motorola Bashes Apple in ‘1984′ Superbowl Ad
(via)Apple, not “Big Brother,” is watching you.
At least, that’s what Motorola wants you to think.
Motorola Compares Apple To Big Brother In New Superbowl Ad
(via)Back in 1984, Apple introduced the Mac with its famous 1984 Superbowl ad. Now Motorola is invoking some of the same ideas to promote its Xoom tablet, but this time, Apple is Big Brother.
November 2010
Analyst: iPad Takes 95 Percent of Market
(via)More confirmation of what most already assumed: Apple’s iPad dominates the tablet market. Earlier, we reported 80 percent of people considering a tablet plan to buy an iPad.
April 2010
Apple’s iPad: One Small Step for Tablets, One Giant Leap for Personal Computers
(via)On the eve of the launch of Apple’s iPad, I am thinking of Ed Roberts. He never became a household name, but as the man behind the Altair computer — a kit for lunatic tech hobbyists released in 1975 — he was responsible for launching the microcomputer era.
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