I’ve updated movemarket.ie to reflect this.

Cheers!

This blog attacted a lot of attention in the papers over the last few days…

Just because the footage “released” thus far has a vertical hinge design, doesn’t mean to say that a single screen compact version couldn’t come out in the future.

Gottalove that implementation of copy and paste. Straight out of the Newton UI.

This could be the spiritual descendant of the Newton we’ve been keeping an eye out for.

But for people with patience and half a brain, this will be a great tool for many PRACTICAL everyday uses. not just watching fucking movies, reading magazines, and playing video games.

I find this far from the case. How do you watch video on it? Oh, you watch it on a screen the size of an iPhone or with a quarter inch bar in the middle of it. Any application which is not ideal for 2 screens/2 panes sucks. Anything you want “full screen” no longer works: games, video, anything that isn’t “two pages” or two interfaces, etc… doesn’t work as well.

We keep seeing the digital journal, address book, etc. because that’s what it does best. If other apps/interfaces were also developed and kicked ass, they would show them too.

never underestimate microsoft. microsoft, google and possibly apple have some of the best talents in the world. and microsoft does spend a lot on research.

microsoft may not get it right the first time but they eventually get it right. history is littered with examples of this: IE, Windows 7, Bing, MS Office, Zune HD.

courier is opening up a completely different market so microsoft will be able to get second dibs even if they fail the first time without loosing bragging rights as the innovator of this segment.

lets face it all apple wants to do with the iPad is sell you a platform that permits you to buy apps from apple and ONLY from apple. I prefer choice.

You say ‘but they don’t really seem to work as well or with the same degree of interconnection as the Courier’s software promises to. ‘

These videos are beautiful vapourware distractions. You are looking at idealised visualisations of wonderfully functional, seamlessly interconnected apps dreamed up by a design studio, not by MS. Your naivete is astounding. Like the HP Slate ads, these are pure fiction. Based on CE6? Give me a big break. This Ballmer’s latest wet dream recreated by artful animators. I’ve got an antique bridge across the river Thames for sale yeah. You want to buy it? We’ll do the shipping free ok?
You are living in a daydream. Wake up and …….

MS challenging Apple is good for competition, and they can actually both succeed in different ways. I think you are slightly off though on Apple’s approach. Apple is extremely conservative in that it doesn’t announce ANYTHING until the actual media launch of the product. Any leaks and buzz are usually people finding out something because they are excited, or possibly tiny unofficial leaks that the thing actually exists. I appreciate this method, as they so what they so they are going to do — nothing less, maybe more.

As far as I know, Windows 7 is the only actual in use product that people can use that is making money and quality — the rest is just buzz.

They should steal a page from Jesus, “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’”

Apple isn’t the only one that can create buzz over a product.