History Repeats Itself — Mac & the iPad

Keith found an interesting story telling a bit about how Steve Jobs operates. It involves small teams of young engineers willing to work 90-hour weeks in total secrecy, and a complete willingness to throw away bad ideas without flowery language. The iPad is surprisingly similar to the Mac."

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Re:the ipad isn't a computer

[macs4all]

Because it is designed to railroad people into only using it in that manner, as dictated by Apple. Why should Apple decide how I use an iPad? What if I want to use it for something it does not do well -- is that an unreasonable thing for me to want to do, or is it unreasonable of Apple to actively work against me doing so? Maybe you have a different outlook on the world, but when Apple starts actively working to restrict what I can do, I call foul.

Um, with something like 170,000 apps in the App Store, any argument that Apple is truly "railroading people into only use it [solely for content consumption]" is laughable, and completely lame.

Seriously, have you even taken a glance at the breadth of offerings at the App Store? Pretty much everything (but ridiculously puerile "booby" apps) that the iPhone/iPad hardware is even slightly capable of in any fashion (not just things it does "well") is represented there; usually with multiple apps to choose from.

So just keep on Trolling, fucktard. I'm sure some other lame loser agrees with you.