There's a tug - of -
war over the tablet market today.
Not exact matches
The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for
over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The
Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a
war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»
HP's acquisition of Palm means the mobile
wars extend to slate
tablets: iPhone vs. Android vs. Palm, all
over again.
The
tablet «
war» has been raging for
over a year now, and despite a flood of «iPad beaters»
over the past twelve months, it remains one of the most hilariously one - sided contests since that time when General Custer decided that it would be a good idea to annoy some Native Americans.
Ultimately an HP Pavillion DM1Z for $ 450 is probably the heaviest competition for iPad or any
tablet but if you are going to have a
tablet that you want to use for any kind of productivity then this and the rest of the Honeycomb devices are going to take
over once the apps start flowing and the price
wars begin.
The Surface is finally a mature device, users are beginning to come around to it, and this commercial is just the latest indication that the
tablet wars are far from
over.
Doubts were cast
over the future of Star
Wars 1313 when Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Lucasfilm will focus on mobile and
tablet games as opposed to console projects.