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Remains of the Day: Sleep is for the weak

23.03.2012
Looks like you can't teach a new iPad old Smart Covers. Elsewhere, HP shareholders want to know why everything it can do Apple can do better, BlackBerry lets the homefront slip through its fingers, and the iPhone might soon get all the G's. The remainders for Thursday, March 22, 2012 will sleep when they're dead.

(Mark's Hangout)

It seems that some Smart Covers, as well as some third-party cases with embedded magnets, aren't playing nicely with the new iPad's built-in magnets. The answer? Looks like Apple slightly tweaked the magnets in the new tablets, requiring a cover with a specific polarity. Man, I knew if I kept suggesting "reverse the polarity" as an answer that it would eventually pay off.

(AppleInsider)

A) Insistence that printers are the future.B) Repeated poor business decisions.C) Not making enough money.D) HP stands for "Harry Potter," right? E) All of the above.

(Bloomberg)