Erica Ogg for Gigaom:
Where is Android’s Angry Birds? Or its Instagram?
Yes, obviously the game and the photo app are both on Android now. But where’s Android’s killer, break-out (non-Google, for obvious reasons) app that explodes on the platform and leaves iOS users clamoring for it? Vine, for instance, is the buzzy mobile app of the moment, and as is par for the course for these things, it’s iOS only.
This is exactly why the iPhone rocks
Walt Mossberg, reviewing the Microsoft Surface Pro:
It’s too hefty and costly and power-hungry to best the leading tablet, Apple’s full-size iPad. It is also too difficult to use in your lap. It’s something of a tweener — a compromised tablet and a compromised laptop.
“Our goal was a no compromise design,” said Steven Sinofsky, back in August. Microsoft execs repeatedly used the words “no compromises” to describe the tablet Laptop hybrid they envisioned, and the result: a hefty, bulky, pricy device powered by a half-baked, confusing, dual-layer OS.
Life is full of compromises. what matters is what you are willing to compromise on.
Electronista:
The company claims that Apple has not contacted the Brazilian manufacturer regarding the trademark. “We’re open to a dialogue for anything, anytime,” IGB Chairman Emilio Staub said of the ruling. “We’re not radicals.”
OK we got it, they want money
Bloomberg:
Dell Inc. is going private in a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout that signals the waning of the personal-computer industry it once dominated.
undertaking the biggest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis. Chief Executive Officer and founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management LLC will pay $13.65 a share, the companies said today in a statement. Microsoft Corp. is contributing $2 billion.
What goes around comes around. In 1997, when Dell founder Michael Dell was asked about what a struggling Apple should do, he notably said: “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
And now after nearly two decades, Dell is doing so!