Why is there a mouse pointer?!
Why is there a mouse pointer on the screen? Is someone playing powerpoint games with the demo?
Do computer companies never learn from history? Clearly not, if Toshiba is anything to go by. Today, it launched its Android tablet, revealing the gadget is called Folio. Does Toshiba not recall the Palm Foleo, quickly re-christened the Faileo by pundits? Toshiba Folio 100 Still, the Tosh offering has an impressive non-fail …
They make these things look a very uncomfortable shape when you're in portrait orientation. I think the point of widescreens is that wider feels more natural to a point; as soon as you rotate it 90 degrees all you've achieved is extremely uncomfortable thinness.
Any news on a 4:3 Android tablet?
Come on, you have to at least let the companies milk the fail for a little while longer! The sensible 4:3 ratio will début in a few generations time and be heralded as the must-have new feature. Bit like the way matt laptop screens are back in vogue and marketed as being easier to read (who'd have thought it, eh?)
"Does Toshiba not recall the Palm Foleo, quickly re-christened the Faileo by pundits?"
Yes, by idiot pundits who didn't see the whole netbook segment coming because it's all about "my ultra-spec mega-laptop costing $2000, and running [Microsoft Office Expensive Edition/Overclocked GPU-thrashing First Person Shooter, Episode 27] - why would anyone need anything else?"
The lesson: don't listen to idiot pundits; identify and listen to customer demand.
A company I worked for standardised on Tosh laptops but they all had a problem in common.
Some of the rubber feet would always fall off the computers - usually so that they rocked when the keyboards were used. Getting replacement feet from Toshiba was impossible.
They no longer buy Tosh products of any type.