http://www.thepunch.com.au/tags/apple-tablet/ Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-vaguely-intelligent-overview-of-the-new-ipad/ OK, big bro. You know the drill. Tell me some techo stuff and make me sound intelligent. It’ll take more than a few technical pointers to make you sound half smart, donkey breath. Yeah yeah, and your football team sucks more than mine. Look, just tell me about the new iPad. It’s the third one. So why isn’t it called iPad3? Why does Apple do anything? It’s a company with a history of slight weird. I mean, “Think Different”. What was that about? The blurb says the new iPad features a stunning new Retina™ display. Should I be excited? It basically just means it has a really, really good screen with more pixels per inch. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-vaguely-intelligent-overview-of-the-new-ipad/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-vaguely-intelligent-overview-of-the-new-ipad/#item8012 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 As entertaining as the game was, the best action in yesterday’s Super Bowl was off the field. In the second quarter, Motorola ran a one minute ad which parodied Ridley Scott’s bold, apocalyptic 1984 Apple ad. In Scott’s ad, Apple seemed to be implying that the world of personal computing, circa the actual year 1984, was dominated by a Big Brother-like power (IBM, anyone?) more reminiscent of Orwell’s fictional 1984. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/motorola-taunts-apple-whos-big-brother-now/ As entertaining as the game was, the best action in yesterday’s Super Bowl was off the field. In the second quarter, Motorola ran a one minute ad which parodied Ridley Scott’s bold, apocalyptic 1984 Apple ad. In Scott’s ad, Apple seemed to be implying that the world of personal computing, circa the actual year 1984, was dominated by a Big Brother-like power (IBM, anyone?) more reminiscent of Orwell’s fictional 1984. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/motorola-taunts-apple-whos-big-brother-now/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/motorola-taunts-apple-whos-big-brother-now/#item5076 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 As entertaining as the game was, the best action in yesterday’s Super Bowl was off the field. In the second quarter, Motorola ran a one minute ad which parodied Ridley Scott’s bold, apocalyptic 1984 Apple ad. In Scott’s ad, Apple seemed to be implying that the world of personal computing, circa the actual year 1984, was dominated by a Big Brother-like power (IBM, anyone?) more reminiscent of Orwell’s fictional 1984. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-future-of-media-is-a-comically-oversized-iphone/ The first thing that came to mind on seeing pictures of Apple boss Steve Jobs with his new iPad device this morning was Trigger Happy TV, the British skit show whose signature sketch involved the star taking hysterically loud phone calls at inappropriate times on a three-foot telephone. “Hello?” he’d suddenly shout in a full cinema, brandishing the prop. “No, I’m at a movie. It’s rubbish.” Let’s not kid ourselves. The iPad is a laptop computer that doesn’t fold. But its appeal – or potential – lies in the content you’ll be able to access from it at a touch, once you hand over your $560 for the basic model when it ships worldwide two months from now. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-future-of-media-is-a-comically-oversized-iphone/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-future-of-media-is-a-comically-oversized-iphone/#item2252 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 As entertaining as the game was, the best action in yesterday’s Super Bowl was off the field. In the second quarter, Motorola ran a one minute ad which parodied Ridley Scott’s bold, apocalyptic 1984 Apple ad. In Scott’s ad, Apple seemed to be implying that the world of personal computing, circa the actual year 1984, was dominated by a Big Brother-like power (IBM, anyone?) more reminiscent of Orwell’s fictional 1984.