When it comes to installing apps, the Kindle Fire sucks!

It’s pretty damn obvious there are more apps NOT in the Amazon store than available for purchase. Google’s Android Market has plenty more to offer, not to mention sales, but good luck getting in on that action. Even though it’s Android based, Amazon has gone out of their way to prevent us from shopping anywhere else. Games like Cut the Rope and Flick Quarterback are on sale for $0.49 over at Google, but the damn Kindle can’t hook in. After spending hours searching for workarounds, gimmicks, quick fixes, hacks and backdoors, I’ve walked away realizing the only thing you can do is root the device and install a bunch of hacks, of which nobody seems to agree on the method and success isn’t guaranteed. What a load of crap! I complained before that the Amazon Marketplace is woefully inadequate when it comes to apps and games for the Kindle and this just seals the deal. If Amazon doesn’t have it, […]

Demo of Windows 7 on HP Slate

I checked out this video of Windows 7 on the HP Slate device and while the hardware itself looks pretty good, the OS experience looks terrible. Its standard Windows shoved into a tablet. It doesn’t seem convenient for touch control at all. It looks like you use the same Start button in the lower corner and pick apps from a list. That is horrible! If that’s really the way this thing is going to work, picking which app to run is going to be a mess. Is MS going to force you to make shortcuts all over the desktop for each app you want to run? They couldn’t just do that in the first place? If that’s what the user can expect, then the Windows 7 tablet is doomed. Quite frankly you would have to be a masochist to buy this. As the article states, I think this proves why Windows 7 will never be a success on a tablet. […]

Apple will charge for the iOS4 update for the iPad?

I’m reading rumors that Apple is going to charge for the next update to the iPad. Wow, that’s going to piss some people off. I remember when I got my 2nd Gen iPod Touch and that same week iOS3 came out and Apple wanted to charge me $10 for it. I was furious. I actually held off and then had to send that Touch in to be repaired and ended up getting the 32GB 3rd Gen model because BestBuy messed everything up so badly. I would have been even more pissed off had I just thrown that $10 away. Now, $5 really isn’t all that much to upgrade an OS, but everyone else got it for free, so it seems wrong to charge the iPad folks If this does turn out to be real, I sense a backlash coming.   Apple to charge for iPad iOS 4 upgrade