Thomas Bøhm´s blog about convergent technology, design and æsthetics, lifehacking, and the occasional maniacal rant.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Tablet devices that are just for viewing magazines have an audience the size of Darlington Football Club. The iPhone has typified a trend towards convergence of devices: my iPhone is my mp3 player, phone, camera, portable computer, and on the very rare occasion gaming device. So why would I buy a piece of chunky hardware to view magazines now-and-again?
/by @andjdavies: Tablets. So hot right now…
I so agree about the current tsunami of pure “e-readers”.
What Will the Apple Tablet Mean for the Smarthome?
If the tablet was to be used to control multiple smart home sub-systems from unique apps this would result in a great deal of repeated opening and closing of each application. One potential way around this would be to have a common web interface to all devices - perhaps using something like HomeSeer and xAP / xPL. Or perhaps the larger form factor of the tablet will allow for a battery big enough to cope with the power-sapping nature of running multiple concurrent apps?
Yes, oh god, please let it multitask. If not for anything else just to shut up all the complainers of missing multitasking on the iPhone.
