Why Buy What You Can't Own?
22 03 10 - 18:58David Gewirtz wrote a great price entitled ““Apple is not your mother”(ZDNet Article)”:http://government.zdnet.com/?p=8177 in which he examines Apple’s motives in restricting what can and cannot be put onto an iPad. His conclusion is Apple suffers from Steve Jobs’s personality, and is effectively a corporate control freak incapable of following its own best interests. But what about the best interests of the consumer? How should we feel about Apple products?
What’s the difference between an iPad and a tablet? Besides one being very expensive and giving you bragging rights if you own it, of course? Any Apple owner will tell you the iPad is easy to use, and its true. And simplicity is a good thing. Or, at least, simplicity is a good thing until it stops you from doing what you want to get done. And the iPad, like the iPhone, will only run applications pre-approved by Apple. Do you think Apple will approve every application out there? Of course not.
I understand that not everybody is a computer programmer. Not everyone cares about the Open Source Movement. But if you own a computer that you can’t control, do you really own it? Or is Apple just letting you use their tablet?
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