Linked List: August 28, 2011

Sunday, 28 August 2011

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 

Big meeting at Samsung headquarters:

“We tried 7 inches and it didn’t sell. We tried 10 inches and it didn’t sell. What can we do to make the Galaxy Tab popular?”

“Let’s try 8.9 inches.”

“Genius!”

(Also, regarding the new Galaxy S II phone, I like how they changed the Home button to an actual hardware button, rectangular with rounded corners, centered in the front face under the display. Haven’t seen that before.)

Some Match 

Brooke Crothers, in a piece headlined “iPad Met Its Match in the TouchPad”:

On Friday, August 19, Apple’s iPad finally met its marketing match. That’s when Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad went on sale for as little as $99 and triggered the kind of buying frenzy that had been reserved exclusively for products from Apple.

Over the last year and a half, no other tablet had been able to come as close as the TouchPad to eclipsing the fixation that consumers have had on the iPad.

Let me get this clear. The iPad “met its match” in a device that sold so poorly that after just 49 days on the market, HP decided to discontinue the product, abandon the WebOS hardware business entirely, and dump the existing stock at a significant loss. OK.

‘If You See a Stylus, They Blew It.’ 

New Sony Reader T1 leaked.

The Talk Show, Episode 56: ‘That Day Has Come’ 

Yours truly and Dan Benjamin, discussing Steve Jobs’s resignation, his succession, and Apple’s future.

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