The iPad is an attack on freedom.
It's replacing an open system with a closed system, it's creating a monopoly, it's an attack on the idea of user-crerated content, it's essentially making electronic communication a one-way street.
Of course no-one is forced to have one, the internet will contnue to exist, but I don't like the idea of a closed system anyway.
The "book" is an attack on freedom. It's replacing an open system with a closed system, it's creating a monopoly, it's an attack on the idea of user-created content, it's essentially making published communication a one-way street. Actually, I insist on only reading Open Source Books. I doubt you are going to find the "Cantorion sheet music collection" on the iPad any time soon! Open Source Books: http://www.archive.org/details/ But seriously. Here is a different perspective on the iPad: "Why My Mom’s Next Computer Is Going To Be An iPad" "The iPad is a computer for people who don’t like computers. People who don’t like the idea of upgrading their 3D drivers, or adjusting their screen resolution, or installing new memory. Who don’t understand why their computer gets slower and slower the longer they own it, who have 25 icons in their system tray and have to wait ten minutes for their system to boot up every day." "For what most of these people need a computer for, the iPad is perfect. It doesn’t do as many things as a “real” computer does, but the things it does do it does in a way even non-tech-savvy people can figure out, and there are far fewer ways to screw it up. So if you have managed to convince yourself that the iPad is a useless, locked-up DRM-laden failure of a ‘computer’ before even touching one, I have two words for you:" "My mom." see the rest of the article at the link. 1
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