January 31, 2010
My deputy-nemesis Danny O’Brien on the iPad, openness, and hacking stuff: “It’s easy to see the iPad as the final tragedy in a long history of openness and tinkerability in general purpose computing. But the truth is, the cyclical fight against locked-in systems has been the recurring theme of computing since the mainframes. Our open [...]
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January 28, 2010
There’s a million posts around about the iPad today, and there will be a million more tomorrow. My reaction is simply that I’ll be buying one, because I’m a geek, and that’s what I do. As for whether it’s good or bad, game-breaking or Apple-breaker, that I’ve yet to learn. I learned with the iPhone [...]
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