Analysis

Is Android shutting up shop?

by Kenny Hemphill on 15 April 2011 in Analysis

You may have noticed that the iPad 2 became available outside the US recently. Apparently there were one or two people milling around outside Apple retail stores waiting for it to go on sale at 5pm one Friday afternoon. Despite the huge, pent-up demand for Apple’s latest tablet, however, it enters a world very different [...]

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What’s with the teenage kicks?

by Kenny Hemphill on 1 April 2011 in Analysis

When Steve Jobs took the stage to announce the new iPad on 2 March, the online Apple Store had already been offline for several hours, just as it had been when Apple launched the new MacBook Pros a week earlier. In fact, every time Apple launches new hardware, the store goes offline for hours. It’s [...]

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Three cheers for Intel inside

by Kenny Hemphill on 18 March 2011 in Analysis

It’s five years, give or take a few weeks, since Apple first shipped Macs with Intel processors. The transition to Intel, which was hugely controversial when Steve Jobs first announced it at WWDC in 2005, was remarkably smooth and, in retrospect, probably the only move Apple could have made in order to carry on making [...]

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Taking on the TouchPad

by Kenny Hemphill on 4 March 2011 in Analysis

As we go to press, credible rumours point to the announcement of a new iPad, shipping within weeks. The first iPad is coming up to a year old, yet so quickly has it embedded itself in our lives, it feels like it’s been around a great deal longer. It has done nothing less than create [...]

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iPad 2: the same, but different

by Adam Banks on 3 March 2011 in Analysis

More than the specifications of the device itself, one question preoccupied the 600 attendees crammed into a curtained-off studio at BBC Television Centre for Apple’s launch of the iPad 2. Would Steve be on stage? And, after a prompt 6pm start, he was. Still painfully thin – the belt around his trademark blue jeans appeared [...]

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Up close and personal with Lion

by Kenny Hemphill on 25 February 2011 in Analysis
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The release of a Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion may have been obscured by Thunderbolt and the new MacBook Pros, but it was exciting nonetheless. Until yesterday, we knew very little about the next version of the Mac OS. The initial unveiling in October only hinted at what was to come.

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