Phileas #21 – Podcastus Interruptus

On this episode, your hosts:

• Patrick Beja from France (notpatrick on Twitter)
• Turki from Saudi Arabia (saudi on Twitter)
• Tom Merrit from the US (acedtect on Twitter)

Talk about:

• Haiti
• the iPad

And other things, and then get rudely interrupted by a technical mishap that ate the second half of the show. It was really good too, with a great discussion about the Burka, among other things. Very sorry about this folks, we’ll be back next month.

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And to find out more about our wonderful hosts, go here:

Turki : A Saudi Life
Tom : Tom Merritt .com

Apple’s New Concept: Easy Computing

So Apple announced its long awaited tablet this week, and many have commented, analysed, cried in despair and praised the oversized iPod. One thing that I have seen yet though is a deeper look at what it means for the computer world and computer users going forward. I’ll take a stab at it.

What Aunt Edna Needs

It seems that at least half the tech world is disappointed that they won’t be able to code C# or run photoshop on their iPad. I humbly believe that this is due to a very deep misunderstanding of the concept that Apple introduced this past Wednesday. Indeed, more than just a new device, they have created a new kind of machine, that many of their competitors will try to replicate in the coming months and years:

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