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Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision
harrymcc writes "Over at TIME.com, we've published David Greelish's interview with Alan Kay, the famously quotable visionary whose Dynabook proposal has provided much of the inspiration for advances in mobile computing for over 40 years now. Kay talks about his work, laments that the computer has failed to live up to its potential as an educational tool, and says that the iPad betrays the vision that he and others created at Xerox PARC and elsewhere in the 1970s."
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As I understand it, it's not $99 per year per device, as Microsoft tried with Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, but $99 per year for the entire set of devices under your provisioning quota. So your friend with the Mac would be paying for the developer license, not you.