Microsoft has revealed exactly how much free space new Surface owners are left with after taking into account Windows RT and system-related files. For the 32GB version of the new tablet, users have access to only 16GB of storage, with the remaining half taken up by Windows recovery tools, Windows RT, Microsoft Office, and built-in apps.
Seriously Microsoft, WTF?
The first paragraph alone is worth the read. Great article from Crosby Churchil.
There are two sides to every story. This Microsoft retail experience wasn’t so bad.
The moral of the story is that you should go to a store and try out a Surface if it is something that interests you. Don’t listen to other people’s views and opinions. You might hate it. You might like it. Everyone’s needs and expectations are different. I came away impressed and pleased with the experience and the Surface.
I do agree with this completely. You should try out everything and use what is best for you.
Interesting thoughts. Tim remains Tim and Jony sort of takes Steve’s role, restoring the balance.
Some things just don’t make sense.
Just announced: Doxie One, the easy new way to go paperless for just $149.
Doxie One scans your paper – simply, automatically, and with no computer required. To scan, just push the button and insert your sheet. Doxie scans anywhere with a simple, elegant design.
When you’re ready to organize, sync scans to your Mac or iPad, just like a digital camera. Doxie’s elegant Mac app creates multi-page searchable PDFs you can save or send to Evernote, Dropbox, or via iMessage. Doxie even works with your iPad with both Apple’s Lightning and 30-pin SD Card Reader accessories.
Michael B. Farrell for the Boston Globe (via Gameindustry.biz): Despite the recent setbacks, the video game industry in Massachusetts is growing fast. The sector directly employs at least 2,041 people at 112 companies, according to a September survey by Massachusetts … Continued
New benchmarks reveal how badly the Microsoft Surface sucks at Web browsing.
First the mainstream media pointed out how nobody was standing in line for the new iPads and sales were going to suck. Then when Apple announced this morning that they sold 3 million iPads in three days, the conspiracy theories started. […]
Forbes profiles Khan Academy, the nonprofit online learning institution.
Jason Perlow speaks in favor of Apple’s new Lightning connector, and talks about connector problems in the Android space.
A new AP article says Apple pays 1.9 percent in its offshore earnings. Is that wrong?
Apple today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March.
So much for the people that said it wasn’t going to sell.
Wired:
Buckyballs are officially discontinued. If you don’t have any Buckyballs or Buckycubes and don’t get some soon, you never will.There are more than a billion of these magnets in consumers’ hands and only 24 reported incidents of children under 14 ingesting them. Skateboarding is statistically 890 times more dangerous than having Buckyballs.
As the story points out, you can still buy Buckyballs for a limited time and the company will continue to make other “Bucky-like” products.
Looking for the best listening experience for your iTunes Library? Look no further than LouderLogic – the Advanced Audio Player, featuring audio enhancement technology, crossfading, a 4-band parametric EQ, Spectrum Animation Mode, and dynamic Play Queues for interacting with your iTunes library on the fly.
LouderLogic brings the fullness you crave out of every song, using patent pending Audio Level eXtension (ALX) technology by McDSP. With the push of one button, LouderLogic minimizes volume fluctuations between songs while maximizing all the musical details the artist intended you to enjoy. Simply put, you’ll get more from your music!
The Verge:
From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, Omni published dispatches from the world of science and some of the most iconic science fiction stories of the late twentieth century, including William Gibson’s “Johnny Mnemonic” (May 1981), Ted Chiang’s “Tower of Babylon” (November 1990), and Terry Bisson’s “They’re Made Out of Meat” (April 1991). The print magazine folded in 1995 — though an internet version lasted somewhat longer. Now, as of earlier this fall, the Internet Archive has a near-complete run of Omni, free for download or viewing online.
If you are “of a certain age”, you’ll remember Omni. It was kind of a precursor to Wired but much more out there.
This may be the most wonderfully demented and funniest thing you watch all day.
io9:
If you didn’t catch Pixar’s latest feature Brave in the theaters, you may have missed out on La Luna, Enrico Casarosa’s stellar short about the moon’s custodians: a young boy, his father, and his grandfather. Hit play and let yourself be transported to a magical world where you can sweep up the stars and a child must learn to find his own way.
I like it.
Intial reports said that about 90,000 smartphones users were infected with a virus lurking in applications they downloaded, But later they found that developers stole more than 10 million pieces of personal information from users mobile.
Android is just so awesome, being all open and such.
Kudos to Josh on the review, especially for calling out the lack of LTE.
Wreck-It Ralph is the latest movie featuring video games as a central plot point. Peter Cohen and the TechHive crew listed out some of their other favorites (and least favorites).
Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White is also at the Fifth Avenue store and has been monitoring availability of the various models. According to White, all three models of the white Wi-Fi iPad mini sold out in a little over an hour, with the black models following suit after about two hours. No additional shipments are expected at the store today.
Not bad at all.
Aaron Mahnke released a new e-book that he says will help take the friction out of doing your freelancing work. Sounds like something we could all use.
But shortly before 8 a.m., when the store usually opens for a new launch, I had a headcount of 550. According to the records Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster has been keeping since 2008 (see below), that’s more customers than turned out for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S.And by 9:56 a.m. — four minutes before the doors finally opened — I counted 801 men, women and children. Only the iPhone 4 (1,300) and iPad 2 (1,190) drew bigger crowds.
Think about how this could eat away at Google’s business, especially considering newspapers in Brazil only saw a 5% drop in traffic.
Hilarious. […]
I love how the iPad can instantly change the way we do things.
I figured the least I could do is to explain my decision in full – I like to think it might help protect you from nasty break-ups like this in the future.
This is the longest, most boring break-up letter in history. Please Ed, just go.
In an order filed on Thursday, it was revealed that Samsung will be able to question Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller for up to three hours, with the deposition expected to cover matters associated with Apple’s request to ban products a jury found to be in violation of its patents.
Schiller can handle himself.