I arrived home Friday night from my camping trip. Too late to go get the new Apple iPhone 4. Though it did cross my mind but the thought of my wife's response as I headed out the door and she was left with unpacking and putting the kids to bed, was enough to kill that idea.

This is an email I sent to a friend in response to an article by CNET titled Free apps install spyware on Macs.

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It is Friday May 28th, 2010. My iPad is supposed to be delivered today by 12pm.

Here is a chat I was just having with my buddy:


Me:
May 28, 2010 7:58 AM — At local FedEx facility — ST LAURENT, PQ

that was at 7:58am. It has to be out for delivery then right?

Come on say I am right?

Should I call?

I hope the doorbell is working

Do you think he will knock?

What time is it?

They said by 12pm

10:45 Should I eat now because I know I won't once it arrives?

I think I hear a truck

No, it drove by

Friend: LOLOL

I know it is what people say they want, video chat. Some people seem to love it. But in my experience, most people I come across are not comfortable with it. The technology has been around for a long time, yet it has never really caught on. Is that because the devices have not been good enough or because people are too vain and don't want to look bad on screen with the other party? Or both?

What is the future of American education and how will technology affect it? You may have read about recent events in Austin, Texas regarding the School board's curriculum decisions. Based on their conservative views, the board made some rather controversial decisions concerning what should or should not be included in their textbooks.

By Carmi Levy, independent technology analyst and journalist. Posted on itbusiness.ca

The clock is now ticking. Apple’s iPad hits U.S. retailers April 3rd and migrates north of the border sometime before the end of the month. The gamechanger in all of this isn’t the device, however. It’s the pricing model for 3G service that AT&T will follow – and how it could potentially push Canadian carriers to follow suit.

There is an internal struggle at the New York Times about the pricing for the their subscription on the iPad. The print division wants to charge somewhere around $20 - $30 a month. The digital division thinks this is crazy and is arguing for a much lower price of about $10.

Well, Apple announced it's iPad yesterday. In the last 19 hours I have been reading and listening to many different people giving their opinions about the device. Here is my take.

In years past when Apple participated in MacWorld Expos every six months, you could always count on a few things. New product announcements and stock manipulation. Well, they no longer attend the Expo (do they still exist?) but APPL stock manipulation still exists. It never fails. Whenever Apple is about to have an "event", especially a new product launch, stories begin coming out 2-3 weeks prior about their earnings past and projected. Some analyst will set the share's target price at an unrealistic price. Predictably the price slowly climbs over the following 2 weeks.

Back in April of this year Apple began its three tiered pricing structure of 69 cents, 99 cents & $1.29. I was skeptical. I suspected that this was really a back door way of increasing the price of a song from 99 cents to $1.29. I am hard pressed to find a 69 cents song that I like. And the majority of new songs are $1.29. I have not purchased music in quite a while. In today's economically tough times, a $1.29 is too high. What do you think?