Posts by commoncents

"call me in a couple years when a few respected universities' schools of education have time to do a full random sample study with lots of controls and continued progress metrics...then I will buy it...a vendor white paper is just a...

The really depressing thing is that this idiot can get business people to listen to this quarter-witted crap. Don't be depressed. 1) Enjoy the superiority of Apple products, as a consumer. 2) Enjoy the returns of Apple as an...

Actually, when I posted my previous reply, I was just focused on the manner in which the tablet will revolutionize education. But then I realized what an amazing opportunity this is for Apple. If the iPad does in fact become the...

Regardless of the limitations of this "experiment", it is obvious that the tablet will be far, far more than simply a lighter, electronic version of the historical textbook. If that's all it had to offer, it would still be...

The critical factor missing in this "analysis" is the ecosystem that has grown up around iOS (and, to a lesser extent, Android). All those prior, failed mobile operating systems did not have hundreds of thousands of apps...