Mobile Dad

Mornings are always hard. Kids making beds, taking showers and just getting ready is a routine we enjoy stretching out when the weekends arrive.  Though weekdays demand that we stay on track, nuggets of casual and interesting conversation still flutters in the mist of chaos.

As my daughter ate her morning breakfast, she ask me to tell her some more about the iPad. After telling her my feelings of how Apple missed a great opportunity, she asked me something intriguing.

“We have Apple computers at school, will I get to use this iPad there too?”

I put my spoon down and thought for a second, did I miss the point of why Apple created the iPad? continue reading…

This morning, my son and daughter were both excited.  It will be a half day at school, which mean they will have a bit of free time to play before evening duties kick in.  The other thing that made my son jump for joy was the fact that he would be out of school in time for the official announcement on Apple’s latest product, the strangely named iPad.  I had to break my son’s spirit a bit as I will not be home to pick him up at the time of the announcement, however he will get a different bedtime story tonight. A story filled with confusion and lost opportunities. continue reading…

Financial Times is reporting about Apple’s desire to release a Tablet version of the iPod Touch by Christmas.  Not sure how Apple will succeed where so many had failed but I would not bet against them.  Apple always had great marketing sense to create demand where there seems to be none.  No official hardware specs have been released so rumors of this being wi-fi only to Verizon’s next big thing is all good at this point. One rumor, if true, about the software based on the iPhone/iPod Touch OS would be a great move by Apple.  With all the developer support and the 10,000+ apps, the tablet would hit the market running.  Thank goodness Amazon has a Kindle app on the iPhone as I see this device destroying the ebook devices currently out there.  I wonder how Microsoft feels as they are always first to market with such concepts but lack the coolness and seamless integration to pull it off.  Any way, here is a snippet from FT:

The talks come as Apple is separately racing to offer a portable, full-featured, tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution. The device could be launched alongside the new content deals, including those aimed at stimulating sales of CD-length music, according to people briefed on the project.