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I'm glad CmdrTaco never created a '-1: Wrong' mod; replying AC instead.

Anyway, you're wrong.

Bruce Schneier linked to this post on iPads just a few days ago....

There is no single answer. Many things work well for some people and not for others. And as with many things in education, it is NOT the tool (laptop/iPad/smart board/fancy new books) but the teachers and the structure that makes the difference. Bad teachers = no learning. Good teachers, hamstrung by a bad system = no learning. I know some people who have done horribly with nontraditional education and some people who have thrived.

That said, this guy has had great successes with iPad deployments.

1) Start reading here and then check out the rest of his blog.

I can give you are some practical anecdotes which, I hope, will give you a flavour of the change.

• Last week, we couldn't get the Primary 3 pupils to stop doing maths and go for lunch.
• My daughter April asked me if I could install the educational apps from school on my iPad so she could use them at home.
• We're seeing a reduction in the amount of homework forgotten or not done.
• "Forgetting your folder" for a subject is now a thing of the past.

2) a) You're a douche. b) You know Apple LOVES multi-ethnics in their ads. :-)

If devices like iPad are the future of computing, then I guess we can kiss a lot of languages goodbye unless they come from Cupertino and are blessed by Jobs, since even developers don't like jailbreaking(it's illegal according to Apple).

Ah, a slippery slope argument. The fact is that Apple does NOT have a monopoly of the market, and people who want to develop in some other language has got plenty of choices to do so. And there's not even the merest hint of a suggestion that Apple is going to be the monopoly vendor of computing devices.

What about this scary scenario, Both Apple and MS hold ~50% of the market(mobile or otherwise), and hence are not a monopoly and can trample on developer's rights. Don't tell me that's unlikely, just look at Windows Phone 7 Series.

The iPhone is (one of?) the first general computing devices to ban other languages, and others are learning from their success.

Also, you don't need Apple to be a monopoly, just a big player is enough to affect software development.

What about articles such as:

http://gizmodo.com/5506692/ipad-is-the-future

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/ipad/

http://speirs.org/blog/2010/1/29/future-shock.html

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175600/The_iPad_is_the_future_for_home_computing

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/04/02/ipad-the-destroyer-19-things-it-will-kill/

Surely they are more than a merest hint of a suggestion?

You can write shitty apps in ObjC and people do it all the time. The App store is chock full of shitty apps like Fart apps.

There are a lot of shitty apps, and a lot of excellent apps. As I said, if Flash and their ilk were allowed there would be MORE shitty apps. It's a favour to consumers to keep the signal to noise ratio on the App Store as high as possible, and not allowing Flash apps helps that ratio.

So, lets kill a ton of good Flash Apps and content on the Web just because there will be some more shitty apps to sift and search through? And here I thought storage, bandwidth and power of servers on the internet was dirt cheap for a company wallowing in cash like Apple.

99.9% of Slashdot are not Apple's target audience. I'm looking at you Freegan Penguinista Android fanbois.

The rest of the world, you know, the ones that bathe regularly, don't go "shopping" for their groceries out of trash bins, have managed to move out of their parents houses?

It's for them. Most people don't want to waste time farting around with their computers. They want to get whatever it is they're trying to get done, done.

Try reading this. It was written by someone who actually develops software for a living, and is apparently confident enough about their appearance to show a picture of their face on their blog.

http://speirs.org/blog/2010/1/29/future-shock.html

Many people have noticed this is a nasty problem when you're on OS X and are working with documents which are NeXT Bundles, a class that includes all applications and most productivity formats (excluding MSs). If I checkout a Numbers or Pages or RTF document with images from a repository, SVN will put it on my system with a .svn dir inside the document's bundle. If you open the document and then save it, the app will overwrite the whole of the previous document, which was in fact a directory, deleting the .svn directory inside, and having the effect of removing the document from revision control. Xcode uses bundles too, but Apple appears to have coded Xcode's saving behavior to allow the .svn directory to persist inside its project document bundle (though this is a one-off behavior; this doesn't happen if you use the standard file wrapper APIs to save a bundle.)

Many OS X developers are looking seriously at git, since it's doesn't do this (we just need some better integration with XCode's UI).

The version of KHTML that Safari relies on is part of OSX now. There are a couple of "alternative browsers" that rely on this for their rendering, but more interesting are other apps:

• xJournal, the LiveJournal client I use, provides a live web preview for very little code.
• Adium, a multi-protocol IM client, uses this for its message windows.
• Most every coder's editor offers live web previews. I think SubEthaEdit was the first. It's addictive to tweak your HTML/CSS in realtime.

the Xjournal LJ client has been able to do this since shortly after iTunes added the little arrow links to the iTMS