BTW, not even Linux can claim such a track record, and it has FAR less market-share than OS X. So, it ain't totally a matter of market-share, or lack thereof.
As an embedded developer for the past 30 years, and an Apple user since 1976, I can assure you that your statement is utter rubbish. I use Macs because I don't WANT to fuck around inside my computer. I got all that out of my system about 20 years ago with my Apple ][s, which lived perpetually with their lids off, so that I could tinker. But don't ever mistake "don't want to" with "don't know how".
If last time you tinkered with a computer was 20 years ago than Apple is definitely for you...
No. Rather, for the past 20 years, I simply have been too busy building embedded computers from scratch.
All ANYONE who doesn't build their own motherboards, Hard Drives, Printers, Video Cards, not to mention entire "roll-your-own" purpose-built OSes and Applications, etc. can claim to be is a "Systems Integrator", not a "Computer designer".
So, which are you? Computer systems designer, like me, or "Systems Integrator", like most of the Linux-punk poseurs here on/.
Granted, the systems I build are generally not as complex as your typical Personal Computer; but every single concept is the same.
So, I would rather my TOOL (Personal Computer) that I use to BUILD my custom-built systems "Just Work".
Of course he is a little stuck if you do in fact lose the installation disks, as many of us absent-minded folks do.
No he isn't. Nearly any OS X "retail" version CD/DVD will do. If he doesn't have a copy of a few of those laying around, then he has no business doing Mac support.
But that was painfully obvious by his original post...
All the times I've had to manually edit a plist because some part of OSX was failing to start up tell me that you're a bullshit apologist.
And what you are writing tells me that you are one of those people who doesn't do any RESEARCH before blasting through config files and System directories in a mad-bull-rush to make it SEEM like you are a "Computer Priest".
I have been using OS X since it was called Rhapsody, and I have NEVER had to "edit a.plist" to fix a startup issue.
Methinks you just have a habit of breaking things, because you really DON'T know what you're doing; but rather simply THINK you do.
When I had to recover the password on an OSX system, and had to figure out how to get to single user, then start several critical services without which I could not even log in a real user or change a password, I knew that all that stuff about macs being trouble-free was horseshit.
Wow! Did you ever make work for yourself!
Boot from an OS X install CD/DVD, ANY OS X install CD/DVD, even one that is for a completely different version than is installed on the machine, and on the first "screen", there is a "Reset Password" utility. Select that, and VOILA!
Too bad you couldn't be bothered to spend 30 seconds on Google or Apple's support site, because you simply ASSUMED it would be hard.
Enough metaphors. If you don't know how to use a computer, Apple is for you. If you know how, you don't need the crap that they're trying to sell you
As an embedded developer for the past 30 years, and an Apple user since 1976, I can assure you that your statement is utter rubbish.
I use Macs because I don't WANT to fuck around inside my computer. I got all that out of my system about 20 years ago with my Apple ][s, which lived perpetually with their lids off, so that I could tinker.
Now, I'd prefer my computers to be as APPLIANCE-LIKE as possible. Not because I "don't know how"; but rather, because I have better things to do. Apple (mostly) achieves that goal. I guess I can understand why others don't feel like I do, which is more than I can say for most of the people commenting here.
But don't ever mistake "don't want to" with "don't know how".
Waitaminute. Apple-bitching aside, WTF else is better? "iP*" looks weird and may really confuse people, iPhone/iPod/iPad is long and cumbersome. You got something better? iThing? iNintendo?
Since there seems to be precedent for calling mobile devices by their OS names (e.g. Android, WinMo 7, Symbian), I would submit that a good, generic, and proper name for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad class of products would be to call them Cocoa Touch devices.
Besides, you and I both know that you meant the term 'iDevice' in a derisive manner, right?
Now, on to evil.
If I fire up Safari on my work-issued testing iPod, at no time for any hyperlink do I see any sort of "download and install" option for executables. Nor is there any equivalent of editing/etc/apt/sources.list so that I can apt-get install from some other repository.
Why? Because Apple wanted it that way. They wanted to damage the software market for that device, in a way that would flabbergast any Apple IIe or iMac user. There's the evil, pal.
Whatchoo smokin' Jackson???
I love a good Conspiracy as much as the next Paranoid-Schizophrenic; but WTF would 99.9997% of the iPod-using population want or need with using apt-get-install on that device???
I'd wager that you can't get to that directory nor use apt-get-install on your damned DVD player neither; but what's the point? Is Samsung evil, too?
Apple has finally done, through evil acts, what a lot of good sensible people have wanted to do for a long time: fuck Adobe hard.
What "evil acts"? Making it impossible to run sucky Flash apps on "iDevices" (as you immaturely call them) is not "evil". No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an "iDevice".
Don't like the feature set? Don't buy the "iDevice".
. If any informed reader took the time to examine Steve's six reasons for abandoning Flash, they'd find that Jobs has clearly fallen off the deep end. His logic is filled with holes that only the Apple cool-aide drinkers will overlook.
And yet, you fail to mention even one "hole" in Jobs' logic.
*Why* do people think apple dictates what's going out of style? Don't you think that the fact that anything relevant would have require dozens of floppy disks to carry around?
Because Apple is the ONLY manufacturer who is bold enough to draw a line in the sand and say "No more", to legacy tech.
The prime example is USB ports. Wintel motherboards had USB ports on them for YEARS, but there were almost ZERO USB PERIPHERALS UNTIL THE iMac debuted with ONLY USB ports.
Within a YEAR of the iMac's introduction there were USB printers, USB scanners, USB hubs, USB speakers, and USB EVERYTHING.
I submit that, if the original iMac had had serial and SCSI ports (like ALL Macs had sported for the 14 years prior to 1999) instead of USB, we would STILL be rockin' 115200-N-8-1 to our printers, and LUN 5 (did you remember to set the terminator switch?) to our scanners.
And, of course, let's not forget the greatest example of Jobs' clever vision, the Apple Lisa.
Let's see: The Lisa brought to the party (that is, made an actual PRODUCT out of) the following technologies/concepts/system features:
1. The world's first personal computer with a GUI Interface (it was started at PARC; but made USEFUL by some pretty brilliant people at Apple)
2. The world's first personal computer with a built-in screensaver (there was a dedicated COPS microcontroller to manage dimming the screen).
3. The world's first personal computer with a pointing device (mouse). Yes, it kind of goes with the GUI, but this was the first implementation that would last long enough without breaking to be useful in an actual "product".
4. The world's first personal computer with over 1MB of RAM. IIRC, I believe you could max out the Lisa at an unheard-of 2MB of RAM.
5. The world's first personal computer with a "modular" hardware design. The entire guts could be replaced literally in seconds by swapping out one of (3, IIRC) sub-chassis assemblies. Not so critical for home use; but the Lisa was aimed at office/small business use.
6. The world's first integrated, WYSIWYG, "Office" suite (Lisa 7/7), long before anyone in Redmond even thought of Microsoft Office.
7. The world's first personal computer with a "soft power" switch that worked with the Lisa's OS and the active applications to automatically save/restore your operating state, so when you powered the Lisa back on, your applications and documents were opened and cursors returned to exactly the place you were when you powered off the computer. To this day, that concept was never fully realized on any other computer (other than some portables, like the Tandy Model 100).
8. The world's first personal computer with an OS based on Object-Oriented software architecture.
So, it wasn't a lack of innovation that made the Lisa unsuccessful. Instead, it was a combination of truly stratospheric price (around $10k), and "too far ahead of its time" product design. The Lisa was a "spare-no-expense" hardware design (still the most gorgeous B&W monitor ever!), that was launched at a time when the economy was in a deep recession. Hardly the best time to ask companies to put $10k systems on every secretary's desk!
But don't EVER denigrate the Lisa, or its design team (which included BOTH Steve Wozniak AND Steve Jobs, among many other brilliant and forward-thinking hardware and software engineers). The Lisa is truly one of the most innovative and well-engineered products ever.
It IS capable of "general computing tasks" (whatever THOSE are...). And the iPad versions of iWork apps prove that nicely.
However, it obviously isn't really OPTIMIZED for that task.
My comments were actually more directed at MULTIMEDIA content creation (where Non-Linear Editing IS important!). I realize that I didn't clarify my statement correctly, sorry.
And, for the record, I do a lot more than NLE on my computer, and I have never even SEEN Crysis. It's a game IIRC, and I don't play games often.
it's pretty close to what Apple's selling right now with only slightly less battery life
A LOT less battery life! THREE HOURS in Tablet mode!
Here's what I recently said about the Touchbook (an idea I thought I'd love, but not in THIS incarnation!) to a friend of mine, recently:
"Touch Book: Oh yeah. I love the idea; but that thing that holds the display/tablet looks REAL sturdy (NOT!)... Failure prone. Also, isn't that the thing that runs some completely different OS when the screen is detached? 600MHz ARM (OMAP) microcontroller. That means it will be about as fast as an iPhone (maybe). iPad is not only a 1GHz MCU, but the iPad's A4 MCU uses an ARM Cortex A8 core (which is as badass as it gets in ARM town). BIG difference. Oh, and have you seen that touchscreen? It is EXTREMELY unresponsive. And not multitouch. THREE hour battery life in Tablet mode. How much? Next."
You DO note that not only is the TouchBook vaporware, but that it doesn't even have a price yet. How can that be compared in any reasonable manner to a device that:
If your TV were fully capable of creating TV shows, but artificially restricted because your television's manufacturer was run by a control freak, then you would be perfectly within your right to be upset.
First, how is the iPad capable of doing much content creation? Have you looked at the actual "computer" specs? 1GHz single-core ARM (probably) CPU, with a whopping 256MB of RAM, and at max a 64GB hard drive. That sounds to me like a consumer electronics device, not a viable computer for "content creation", especially not of the sort (TV shows) that you are using as your example. Where is the outrage that you can't do Non-Linear-Editing on your TiVO? I'll bet it has "computer" specs equal to, or better than, the iPad!
Just like your TV (probably) has a "computer" in it; but it only has enough processing power and system resources to get done what it needs to get done (which does NOT include running Eclipse, Photoshop or Final Cut). But I'll just bet you haven't posted on here about how someone has "artificially restricted" you from compiling a Linux kernel on your FUCKING TELEVISION.
Bottom line: You are simply inventing uses for which the hardware is incapable of running IN ANY REASONABLE FASHION, and then calling it "artificially restricted".
Come back when you have finished that iPad port of Final Cut, and THEN you can complain about "artificial restrictions".
Also, ADULTS vote with their feet. Being "upset" about a product's "artificial restrictions" is simply childish. Don't like the iPad? DON'T BUY ONE!
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.
The iPad has everything that any other computer has...so who is to say that it is not a computer? Apple can market it as a "media device" all they want, but if people want to use their iPads in other ways, they should be allowed to do so. Nobody, not Apple, and certainly not Steve Jobs, should be dictating what people are allowed to use their iPads for (except perhaps as a deadly weapon).
I can't believe all this whining about "Apple won't ALLOW me to..." bullshit from the very same community of 'dotters that think nothing of "jailbreaking" everything from iPods to toaster ovens just to "boot Linux" on them!
With the iPad and iPhone, NO ONE stops you from getting a dev. license, downloading the tools, and START DEVELOPING! So just WHO is "preventing" you from doing stuff with your iPhone/iPad? You can develop for your own use (and for 4 of your loser friends) without involving the App Store.
Oh, and if your app (that you've been SO prevented from developing) just happens to be even SLIGHTLY useful to others, THEN you can submit it to Apple for approval, then sit back and collect 70% of the sales (not 70% of the profits, but of the gross sales), while Apple foots the bill for advertising, distribution, webpage design, hosting, bandwidth, and, oh, PROVIDING A SINGLE PLACE WHERE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS CAN FIND YOUR PRODUCT
So, pray tell, just how is it that Apple is doing a disservice to the developer community?
And just how is it that Jobs has not allowed me to use my iPad as a deadly weapon? If someone walked up to me and started to attack me, you can be SURE I'd be quickly figuring out how to use my iPad in just that manner!
And the method I chose wouldn't require App-Store approval, neither!
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I am eagerly awaiting the first big trojan or worm that attacks the macs... It will be glorious to watch the PR machine trying to explain it away!
Better eat that popcorn before it turns moldy...
At 10 years and counting (since the OS X Public Beta) with ZERO, count 'em ZERO viruses (worms), ZERO targeted malware and only a couple of half-assed Trojans (from which which NO system can be immune), I wouldn't hold my breath.
BTW, not even Linux can claim such a track record, and it has FAR less market-share than OS X. So, it ain't totally a matter of market-share, or lack thereof.
Sorry for the open-quote tag instead of close-quote tag before the "No, Rather..." line.
That's what I get for not Previewing!
As an embedded developer for the past 30 years, and an Apple user since 1976, I can assure you that your statement is utter rubbish. I use Macs because I don't WANT to fuck around inside my computer. I got all that out of my system about 20 years ago with my Apple ][s, which lived perpetually with their lids off, so that I could tinker. But don't ever mistake "don't want to" with "don't know how".
If last time you tinkered with a computer was 20 years ago than Apple is definitely for you...
No. Rather, for the past 20 years, I simply have been too busy building embedded computers from scratch.
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Granted, the systems I build are generally not as complex as your typical Personal Computer; but every single concept is the same.
All ANYONE who doesn't build their own motherboards, Hard Drives, Printers, Video Cards, not to mention entire "roll-your-own" purpose-built OSes and Applications, etc. can claim to be is a "Systems Integrator", not a "Computer designer".
So, which are you? Computer systems designer, like me, or "Systems Integrator", like most of the Linux-punk poseurs here on
So, I would rather my TOOL (Personal Computer) that I use to BUILD my custom-built systems "Just Work".
THAT's what I meant. But you already knew that.
Troll.
Holy crap, it's like you too my feelings about the whole issue and expressed it in better words than I could have.
[blush] Thanks. It's nice to see that someone with computer chops understands the difference between "can't" and "would rather not".
Of course he is a little stuck if you do in fact lose the installation disks, as many of us absent-minded folks do.
No he isn't. Nearly any OS X "retail" version CD/DVD will do. If he doesn't have a copy of a few of those laying around, then he has no business doing Mac support.
But that was painfully obvious by his original post...
All the times I've had to manually edit a plist because some part of OSX was failing to start up tell me that you're a bullshit apologist.
And what you are writing tells me that you are one of those people who doesn't do any RESEARCH before blasting through config files and System directories in a mad-bull-rush to make it SEEM like you are a "Computer Priest".
.plist" to fix a startup issue.
I have been using OS X since it was called Rhapsody, and I have NEVER had to "edit a
Methinks you just have a habit of breaking things, because you really DON'T know what you're doing; but rather simply THINK you do.
I think that you mistake "don't want to" with "can't because the evil overlord doesn't allow it"
No, I had it right the first time. Don't put words in my mouth.
In over 30 years of using Apple products, I can't think of a single thing that Apple has prevented me from doing. Seriously.
If anything, it is the DEVELOPER community that held back the platform for several years, not Apple.
So, suck it. Because I don't.
When I had to recover the password on an OSX system, and had to figure out how to get to single user, then start several critical services without which I could not even log in a real user or change a password, I knew that all that stuff about macs being trouble-free was horseshit.
Wow! Did you ever make work for yourself!
Boot from an OS X install CD/DVD, ANY OS X install CD/DVD, even one that is for a completely different version than is installed on the machine, and on the first "screen", there is a "Reset Password" utility. Select that, and VOILA!
Too bad you couldn't be bothered to spend 30 seconds on Google or Apple's support site, because you simply ASSUMED it would be hard.
Tool.
Enough metaphors. If you don't know how to use a computer, Apple is for you. If you know how, you don't need the crap that they're trying to sell you
As an embedded developer for the past 30 years, and an Apple user since 1976, I can assure you that your statement is utter rubbish.
I use Macs because I don't WANT to fuck around inside my computer. I got all that out of my system about 20 years ago with my Apple ][s, which lived perpetually with their lids off, so that I could tinker.
Now, I'd prefer my computers to be as APPLIANCE-LIKE as possible. Not because I "don't know how"; but rather, because I have better things to do. Apple (mostly) achieves that goal. I guess I can understand why others don't feel like I do, which is more than I can say for most of the people commenting here.
But don't ever mistake "don't want to" with "don't know how".
"iDevices" (as you immaturely call them)
Waitaminute. Apple-bitching aside, WTF else is better? "iP*" looks weird and may really confuse people, iPhone/iPod/iPad is long and cumbersome. You got something better? iThing? iNintendo?
Since there seems to be precedent for calling mobile devices by their OS names (e.g. Android, WinMo 7, Symbian), I would submit that a good, generic, and proper name for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad class of products would be to call them Cocoa Touch devices.
Besides, you and I both know that you meant the term 'iDevice' in a derisive manner, right?
Now, on to evil.
If I fire up Safari on my work-issued testing iPod, at no time for any hyperlink do I see any sort of "download and install" option for executables. Nor is there any equivalent of editing /etc/apt/sources.list so that I can apt-get install from some other repository.
Why? Because Apple wanted it that way. They wanted to damage the software market for that device, in a way that would flabbergast any Apple IIe or iMac user. There's the evil, pal.
Whatchoo smokin' Jackson???
I love a good Conspiracy as much as the next Paranoid-Schizophrenic; but WTF would 99.9997% of the iPod-using population want or need with using apt-get-install on that device???
I'd wager that you can't get to that directory nor use apt-get-install on your damned DVD player neither; but what's the point? Is Samsung evil, too?
I bow to your superior command of a fake language.
That'd be because apple users aren't exactly the kind of users to keep legacy tech around.
Um, broad-brush much?
This Apple user has Apple tech back to an Apple-1, and Wintel tech back to a PC-XT.
ARM based Netbooks are selling for less than $100
OMG, he's right! There ARE laptops less than $100!!!
Apple has finally done, through evil acts, what a lot of good sensible people have wanted to do for a long time: fuck Adobe hard.
What "evil acts"? Making it impossible to run sucky Flash apps on "iDevices" (as you immaturely call them) is not "evil". No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an "iDevice".
Don't like the feature set? Don't buy the "iDevice".
See? "Evil" averted. Now wasn't that simple?
Four lice love no cows?
No, it is much more beautiful in the original Klingon...
. If any informed reader took the time to examine Steve's six reasons for abandoning Flash, they'd find that Jobs has clearly fallen off the deep end. His logic is filled with holes that only the Apple cool-aide drinkers will overlook.
And yet, you fail to mention even one "hole" in Jobs' logic.
Telling.
*Why* do people think apple dictates what's going out of style? Don't you think that the fact that anything relevant would have require dozens of floppy disks to carry around?
Because Apple is the ONLY manufacturer who is bold enough to draw a line in the sand and say "No more", to legacy tech.
The prime example is USB ports. Wintel motherboards had USB ports on them for YEARS, but there were almost ZERO USB PERIPHERALS UNTIL THE iMac debuted with ONLY USB ports.
Within a YEAR of the iMac's introduction there were USB printers, USB scanners, USB hubs, USB speakers, and USB EVERYTHING.
I submit that, if the original iMac had had serial and SCSI ports (like ALL Macs had sported for the 14 years prior to 1999) instead of USB, we would STILL be rockin' 115200-N-8-1 to our printers, and LUN 5 (did you remember to set the terminator switch?) to our scanners.
Do you know who Tog is?
Sure! He's the author of Super HI-RES Chess for the Apple ][ ...
And, of course, let's not forget the greatest example of Jobs' clever vision, the Apple Lisa.
Let's see: The Lisa brought to the party (that is, made an actual PRODUCT out of) the following technologies/concepts/system features:
1. The world's first personal computer with a GUI Interface (it was started at PARC; but made USEFUL by some pretty brilliant people at Apple)
2. The world's first personal computer with a built-in screensaver (there was a dedicated COPS microcontroller to manage dimming the screen).
3. The world's first personal computer with a pointing device (mouse). Yes, it kind of goes with the GUI, but this was the first implementation that would last long enough without breaking to be useful in an actual "product".
4. The world's first personal computer with over 1MB of RAM. IIRC, I believe you could max out the Lisa at an unheard-of 2MB of RAM.
5. The world's first personal computer with a "modular" hardware design. The entire guts could be replaced literally in seconds by swapping out one of (3, IIRC) sub-chassis assemblies. Not so critical for home use; but the Lisa was aimed at office/small business use.
6. The world's first integrated, WYSIWYG, "Office" suite (Lisa 7/7), long before anyone in Redmond even thought of Microsoft Office.
7. The world's first personal computer with a "soft power" switch that worked with the Lisa's OS and the active applications to automatically save/restore your operating state, so when you powered the Lisa back on, your applications and documents were opened and cursors returned to exactly the place you were when you powered off the computer. To this day, that concept was never fully realized on any other computer (other than some portables, like the Tandy Model 100).
8. The world's first personal computer with an OS based on Object-Oriented software architecture.
So, it wasn't a lack of innovation that made the Lisa unsuccessful. Instead, it was a combination of truly stratospheric price (around $10k), and "too far ahead of its time" product design. The Lisa was a "spare-no-expense" hardware design (still the most gorgeous B&W monitor ever!), that was launched at a time when the economy was in a deep recession. Hardly the best time to ask companies to put $10k systems on every secretary's desk!
But don't EVER denigrate the Lisa, or its design team (which included BOTH Steve Wozniak AND Steve Jobs, among many other brilliant and forward-thinking hardware and software engineers). The Lisa is truly one of the most innovative and well-engineered products ever.
It IS capable of "general computing tasks" (whatever THOSE are...). And the iPad versions of iWork apps prove that nicely.
However, it obviously isn't really OPTIMIZED for that task.
My comments were actually more directed at MULTIMEDIA content creation (where Non-Linear Editing IS important!). I realize that I didn't clarify my statement correctly, sorry.
And, for the record, I do a lot more than NLE on my computer, and I have never even SEEN Crysis. It's a game IIRC, and I don't play games often.
it's pretty close to what Apple's selling right now with only slightly less battery life
A LOT less battery life! THREE HOURS in Tablet mode!
Here's what I recently said about the Touchbook (an idea I thought I'd love, but not in THIS incarnation!) to a friend of mine, recently:
"Touch Book: Oh yeah. I love the idea; but that thing that holds the display/tablet looks REAL sturdy (NOT!)... Failure prone. Also, isn't that the thing that runs some completely different OS when the screen is detached? 600MHz ARM (OMAP) microcontroller. That means it will be about as fast as an iPhone (maybe). iPad is not only a 1GHz MCU, but the iPad's A4 MCU uses an ARM Cortex A8 core (which is as badass as it gets in ARM town). BIG difference. Oh, and have you seen that touchscreen? It is EXTREMELY unresponsive. And not multitouch. THREE hour battery life in Tablet mode. How much? Next."
You DO note that not only is the TouchBook vaporware, but that it doesn't even have a price yet. How can that be compared in any reasonable manner to a device that:
1. Exists
2. Has a defined price point and specs?
If your TV were fully capable of creating TV shows, but artificially restricted because your television's manufacturer was run by a control freak, then you would be perfectly within your right to be upset.
First, how is the iPad capable of doing much content creation? Have you looked at the actual "computer" specs? 1GHz single-core ARM (probably) CPU, with a whopping 256MB of RAM, and at max a 64GB hard drive. That sounds to me like a consumer electronics device, not a viable computer for "content creation", especially not of the sort (TV shows) that you are using as your example. Where is the outrage that you can't do Non-Linear-Editing on your TiVO? I'll bet it has "computer" specs equal to, or better than, the iPad!
Just like your TV (probably) has a "computer" in it; but it only has enough processing power and system resources to get done what it needs to get done (which does NOT include running Eclipse, Photoshop or Final Cut). But I'll just bet you haven't posted on here about how someone has "artificially restricted" you from compiling a Linux kernel on your FUCKING TELEVISION.
Bottom line: You are simply inventing uses for which the hardware is incapable of running IN ANY REASONABLE FASHION, and then calling it "artificially restricted".
Come back when you have finished that iPad port of Final Cut, and THEN you can complain about "artificial restrictions".
Also, ADULTS vote with their feet. Being "upset" about a product's "artificial restrictions" is simply childish. Don't like the iPad? DON'T BUY ONE!
Sheesh.
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.
The iPad has everything that any other computer has...so who is to say that it is not a computer? Apple can market it as a "media device" all they want, but if people want to use their iPads in other ways, they should be allowed to do so. Nobody, not Apple, and certainly not Steve Jobs, should be dictating what people are allowed to use their iPads for (except perhaps as a deadly weapon).
I can't believe all this whining about "Apple won't ALLOW me to..." bullshit from the very same community of 'dotters that think nothing of "jailbreaking" everything from iPods to toaster ovens just to "boot Linux" on them!
With the iPad and iPhone, NO ONE stops you from getting a dev. license, downloading the tools, and START DEVELOPING! So just WHO is "preventing" you from doing stuff with your iPhone/iPad? You can develop for your own use (and for 4 of your loser friends) without involving the App Store.
Oh, and if your app (that you've been SO prevented from developing) just happens to be even SLIGHTLY useful to others, THEN you can submit it to Apple for approval, then sit back and collect 70% of the sales (not 70% of the profits, but of the gross sales), while Apple foots the bill for advertising, distribution, webpage design, hosting, bandwidth, and, oh, PROVIDING A SINGLE PLACE WHERE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS CAN FIND YOUR PRODUCT
So, pray tell, just how is it that Apple is doing a disservice to the developer community?
And just how is it that Jobs has not allowed me to use my iPad as a deadly weapon? If someone walked up to me and started to attack me, you can be SURE I'd be quickly figuring out how to use my iPad in just that manner!
And the method I chose wouldn't require App-Store approval, neither!
Apple do seem to have history when it comes to wifi - so I suspect that apple is more at fault here.
Actually, Apple's "history" when it comes to WiFi is a LOT better than nearly every other device manufacturer.
Or have you never tried to use a Windows system with WiFi?