Chris and I watched the iPad mini event today on our departmental Apple TV.  It only occurred to us belatedly that we should have made it an open event for anyone wishing to attend in room LL-111.  But then, you never know.  Sometimes the events are chock full of meaningful new products and insights into Apple’s ongoing strategies, and other times they are a lot of noise about not much.  Today’s event was more the former.  The big news was the iPad Mini—about which more below—but there were significant announcements related to the iBook app and store, Macbook, iMac, and a surprise...

There are three products in the B&N nook line now:  the Nook Simple Touch, for $99 (which David reviewed here); the Nook Color, for $169 (which I reviewed here); and the latest Nook Tablet, which comes in 8GB and 16GB flavors, for $199 and $249.  I am reviewing the 16GB Tablet in this post.  The Tablet is the device intended by B&N to go head to head with the Amazon Fire. First, a word on that storage:  when B&N says 16GB storage, what they really mean is 12.75GB for B&N purchased storage, 1.07 of “other storage” (your documents and non-B&N purchased content), and the...