Now that the dust has settled a bit on the iPad launch (unlike that from the Icelandic volcano which is keeping me in Europe for a few days longer than planned), it is time for a round-up of initial impressions.
And while everyone has predictably been falling all over themselves to get in a lot of [...]

The iPad is set to finally get into the hands of the public Saturday, April 3, after another 2.5 months of additional waiting and speculating. This after the many months of waiting and speculating that had built up before the official iPad announcement in January…
Predictably orchestrated with Apple’s ingenious Archetype Branding, the secrecy has continued [...]

Stop Whining About How Elitist And Expensive TED Is [Just Because] You Didn’t Get Invited Feb. 15, 2010, 9:17 AM
>> Too bad you missed it! Larry Page gave everyone a free Nexus One.
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via Silicon Alley Insider.

(Minor edit for colorful language.)
What is amazing about this (the subhead sentence after the headline), is not what it says [...]

Chances are that unless you have been living under an Internet-free rock, you have gotten a dose of the rumor mill surrounding Apple’s likely new product, the Apple Tablet computer (by whatever name it will eventually appear on Wednesday, unless it won’t, that is).
iPad/iSlate/iTablet/etc., heir to the iPhone, destroyer of lesser technology gadgets?!
The name is [...]

Apple launched a completely refreshed line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros last week, to the by now predictable fanfare and guessing-game imbroglio in the blogosphere. I have written previously how this is a deliberate, well-designed Archetype Branding strategy on Apple’s part, using aspects of "The Enigma" archetype among other things.
The MacBooks’ launch did contain the [...]

Apple unveiled it’s new renditions of both the iPod Touch and the iPod Nano on Tuesday, along with several other software upgrades. And at first I was surprised by some of the price-point decisions:
1) I had thought the Nano might go to $99 from $149 in line with Apple’s new, more populist "recession pricing" ideas [...]