06th Apr 2010
Link for today
Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) – Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow on the iPad and Apple’s stifling of creativity:
[C]learly there’s a lot of thoughtfulness and smarts that went into the design. But there’s also a palpable contempt for the owner. I believe — really believe — in the stirring words of the Maker Manifesto: if you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Screws not glue.
(…)
The way you improve your iPad isn’t to figure out how it works and making it better. The way you improve the iPad is to buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn’t a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it’s a way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals.
Yeah, I won’t be getting one.
Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) – Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow on the iPad and Apple’s stifling of creativity:
[C]learly there’s a lot of thoughtfulness and smarts that went into the design. But there’s also a palpable contempt for the owner. I believe — really believe — in the stirring words of the Maker Manifesto: if you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Screws not glue.
(…)
The way you improve your iPad isn’t to figure out how it works and making it better. The way you improve the iPad is to buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn’t a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it’s a way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals.
Yeah, I won’t be getting one.
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