Apple’s Answer to the PC tablet: the iPAD is here!
For almost a year of secrecy, Apple reveals what it calls a revolutionary creation for handling emails, web browsing, viewing movie videos etc, etc.
The iPAD is just an example of a product repackaged, and will probably be a success because of PR hype it is getting from Apple. Just like the iPhone, which essentially a pocket pc made by Apple, and has been out for at least a decade.
It is rumored that the iPAD will cost between 300-400 pounds. It costs significantly more that Sony’s e-book reader which you can get for around 140 pounds, and obviously the iPAD can do much more than allowing you to read e-books. So I can see that Sony’s e-book reader is a dying breed. I don’t think that the iPAD will mark the decline in laptop sales, and I am not suggesting that it is meant to be a direct rivaling technology to laptops.
I don’t think that the iPAD is a bad idea, as it will become a valuable tool as the technology improves in the a couple of years time, and would be something I would carry around in my bag as a substitute to a laptop on the way to work.
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If the Bank Can’t Keep to Appointments
I found a savings product that I am interested in and so I go into the bank to book an appointment about 3 hours from the present time. I go out of the Santander bank branch to have my lunch at PizzaHut, and come back about ten minutes prior to my book appointment and ‘check in’ at the reception desk and then consequently get ask to wait.
As I wait in the sitting area, I observe how the branch staff operates. I could see that the receptionist chatting away at a customer about their holiday preference, this is ok under other circumstances were no other person in the queue. Ten minutes go by and I see who the queue is growing longer and longer, witnessing how the other customers are getting agitated but being all calm about the business unrelated conversation that’s holding everything up.
Anyway,50 minutes go by and I am not being serve so I decided to take my money elsewhere.
After the banking crisis, what choices do I really have, I really hope the UK decides to follow President Obama’s example by breaking up the banks, as this will allow us consumers more choices on whom to bank with. Santander, the Spanish banking giant has swallowed up a good
Chunk on the UK banning sector and in the last round the HSBC group gobbled up a few banks. What happened to the monopoly and merger’s commission or the competition commission, they should have blocked most of the mergers.
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