Are these designs FAILS or are they just part of the journey. I’m showing this to my students so they can see how curiousity and imagination are a journey - they don’t just birth new ideas and make them happen, sometimes you have to throw an idea out there and it leads to another and another. This is a great graphic at fast design of different Apple designs that never happened. I particularly like the flat screen workstation from 1982 - image #10  (and #14 & #27) which really shows how they were thinking about ipads in the 1980’s ALREADY before the PC revolution even happened.

Are these designs FAILS or are they just part of the journey. I’m showing this to my students so they can see how curiousity and imagination are a journey - they don’t just birth new ideas and make them happen, sometimes you have to throw an idea out there and it leads to another and another. This is a great graphic at fast design of different Apple designs that never happened. I particularly like the flat screen workstation from 1982 - image #10  (and #14) which really shows how they were thinking about ipads in the 1980’s ALREADY before the PC revolution even happened.

Are these designs FAILS or are they just part of the journey. I’m showing this to my students so they can see how curiousity and imagination are a journey - they don’t just birth new ideas and make them happen, sometimes you have to throw an idea out there and it leads to another and another. This is a great graphic at fast design of different Apple designs that never happened. I particularly like the flat screen workstation from 1982 - image #2 which really shows how they were thinking about ipads in the 1980’s ALREADY before the PC revolution even happened.

Are these designs FAILS or are they just part of the journey. I’m showing this to my students so they can see how curiousity and imagination are a journey - they don’t just birth new ideas and make them happen, sometimes you have to throw an idea out there and it leads to another and another. This is a great graphic at fast design of different Apple designs that never happened.

So, you don’t understand why 2 screens are necessary and why the iphone/ ipad would need to be connected to a large TV. I have an Apple TV and beginning to use it with my ipad and the possibilities are revolutionary. I first heard of the Apple TV, most of the teachers who have 1:1 ipads in their school are using the Apple TV to wirelessly send content to their projectors.

This article from mashable thoroughly covers what the dual screen revolution means to the classroom and your family room.

“Dual-screen apps change all of that by shifting the software and user experience model from one user to potentially many, and from one screen (PC/phone/tablet) to two screens (phone/tablet and TV monitor). From a software development and user-experience perspective, the large monitor (which is the true second screen — versus the standard concept that considers the tablet as the second screen) becomes an open computing surface where one can render any form of application functionality, information, data and content.”

In a huge turn of irony, at least if one considers how Bill Gates began his programming career, a spat over Office 365 coming to the ipad and Apple’s desire to get 30% commissions for anyone signing up for the service if it originates on the ipad, may mean that office 365 won’t come to the ipad at all. The evolution of the platform to tablet devices is critical to software companies and yet, many balk at the steep cut some like Apple take. It is interesting to watch, but there is a bigger issue here. Microsoft continues to have the best Office suite, but, as with Google Drive, many move because of a lack of ubiquity and collaborative ability driven by the walls erected by Microsoft in their traditional, but understandable proprietary system. I have to think that there are bigger issues at stake for Microsoft here. These are interesting times, to say the least, as I sit here watching Batman on my Apple TV streaming via the wifi and read this article on my ipad as I blog in the den using a bluetooth logitech keyboard.

Apple will recycle 25 or more of any type of computer or electronic. Great program and environmentally safe.

“Disruption doesn’t care about legagies” says this article discussing the major disruption hitting the “wintel” market as the computing industry is becoming forever changed by the new preferences in computing devices and how we use them since the inception of broadband. An important article to read, the graphic in this article says it all about the size of businesses.

Education would do well to read and understand that a similar disruption is coming to education and indeed, is already here. “Disruption doesn’t care about legacy.” From the school on the corner to the pristine ivory tower down the road, read these words and know that in 10 years someone is going to be doing a similar chart on education. The parallels are ground shaking.