John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
2011: The Year of the Tablet-Apple’s Tablet (And Analyst Notes About It) — Much as they were in 2010, tablet sales will be a high point of 2011-but even more so. According to Caris & Co. analyst Robert Cihra, tablet sales will more than triple, rising 226 percent to 54 million units.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Emotional Rescue — There was an interesting thread of iOS-vs.-Android news and punditry over the weekend, starting with this report by Seth Weintraub for Fortune: … In other words, $100 Android phones within the next year. — I’m not sure how this qualifies as news, though.
John Resig / jQuery Mobile:
jQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released — Today we’re pleased to announce the first alpha release of the jQuery Mobile project. jQuery Mobile is a user interface framework, built on top of jQuery, designed to simplify the process of building applications that target mobile devices.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Einstein Would Have Used a Mac. John Lennon, Too. — Steve Jobs in a turtleneck and shorts? — What a great bit of history this is, and a nice Friday diversion. In the video embedded below, the Apple (AAPL) CEO introduces the company’s 1997 Think Different campaign.