Born Weird

I’m writing this post on my brand-new 11″ Macbook Air. While it’s not exactly the laptop I’ve been hoping Apple would make for years now (basically since they dropped the 12″ iBook), it’s damn close. I find it positively mind-boggling that a functioning computer can weigh so little and be so small. Of course, that [...]

Overlooked, I think, in today’s arrival of the iPad 3G (as differentiated from its non-3G brethren) is its unique potential to act as a disruptive technology — that is, an innovation that reorganizes the operation of the marketplace. In the run-up to the release of the iPhone in 2007, many analysts and enthusiasts (myself included) [...]