[net-gold] TECHNOLOGY : COMPUTER : ELECTRONICS : SOFTWARE: Apple's iPad: Tool, Toy or Trap?
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- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:11:10 -0400 (EDT)
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TECHNOLOGY :
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Apple's iPad: Tool, Toy or Trap?
Apple's iPad: Tool, Toy or Trap?
Faster Forward
Rob Pegoraro
Washington Post
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/
2010/04/apples_ipad_tool_toy_or_trap.html>
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<http://tinyurl.com/y3ddl9r>
If you'd like to get people to talk to you at a crowded event, bring an
iPad. You'll be holding forth before new friends in no time. And why not?
The iPad is the closest thing I've ever seen to the Newspad of Arthur C.
Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- or the tablet computer Jean-Luc Picard
toted around in "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
If, however, you're just looking for a simpler, cheaper way to tackle your
digital duties, the case for Apple's new device is not so clear.
<snip>
But the most serious criticism of the iPad goes much further -- the
argument that Apple's tight control of the App Store unforgivably
infringes on your computing liberties. This gets its harshest expression
in Cory Doctorow's denunciation of the device on the Boing Boing blog, but
you can find many more moderate versions of it from the likes of Freedom
to Tinker blogger Ed Felten and media critic Jeff Jarvis.
I appreciate simplicity and stability as much as the next tech writer, but
I think Apple is way out of line in its stewardship of the App Store and
have repeatedly said so here.
Last night, news surfaced about yet another move by Apple to limit what
software you can install on the iPhone and the iPad: a new clause in its
developer agreement that forbids programmers from rewriting converting an
application first coded for another platform. This is an extraordinarily
arrogant sort of control-freakery: First Apple has asserted the right to
veto developers' iPhone software for any reason, and now it won't let them
cover their bets by starting with a cross-platform code base.
This betrays a fair amount of contempt, and not just toward programmers.
Does Apple not think iPhone users can discern the difference between a
carefully crafted application and one sloppily recoded from some Adobe
Flash widget?
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These were Cited in this article:
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)
Cory Doctorow at 5:23 AM April 2, 2010
Boing Boing
<http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/02/
why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either.html>
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iPad: The Disneyland of Computers
By Ed Felten
Posted on April 8th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Freedom to Tinker
<http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/ipad-disneyland-computers>
iPad danger: app v. web, consumer v. creator
Buzz Machine
Jeff Jarvis
<http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/04/04/
ipad-danger-app-v-web-consumer-v-creator/>
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<http://tinyurl.com/ya5t34j>
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