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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.

“Consumers didn’t ask for tablets” - Forrester Research

When I read a piece of “research” like this from the so-called experts (eg Gartner, Forrester, and the like) I am just reminded how disconnected these research houses are from reality.

They remind me of academics telling business people just “how things are in business”…

So back to this article. They’re saying it’s impossible for Apple to sell any more than a total of 3.5 million iPads because, “consumers didn’t ask for tablets”. Seriously. Did we ask for iPhones? Or iPods? Or iAnything? Anyway because we didn’t ask for such new tech innovations, somehow magically we just won’t buy them. Hello?! What planet are you “researchers” on?

Luckily Apple or Google or even Microsoft for that matter are probably not listening too carefully to your predictions. Especially Apple, since they have already sold 3 million iPads in the last 80 days. Yep Forrester, only 500,000 more will be sold for the rest of the year. Oh wait, you probably didn’t tell us consumers not to buy them.

Article here: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/18/forrester-ipad-sales-will-plummet/

Tags: Apple iPad tech research Forrester

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June 17

iReading in the bath is now possible

I knew sooner or later someone would design this. Reading in the bath is one of life’s sacred pleasures. But the prospect of dosing off and letting your $500 iPad slip out of your fingers while you’re reading eTolstoy isn’t something most people would risk. TuneWear to the rescue!

via TuneWear Lets You Use Your iPad In The Bath

Tags: iPad Apple design gadgets products

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June 2

Wired Sells 24,000 iPad Apps in One Day

So, this is the geeks mag. Now without trees involved.

Only problem is the 500meg download each month. That’s half a gig folks. Never mind the download cost and time, what about the “disk” space each edition will take up on my iPad!? It’s just too big to make it a viable option each month, methinks. Plan B?