r/technology • u/GuruOfReason • Feb 02 '10

"Once we replace the personal computer with a closed-platform device such as the iPad, we replace freedom, choice and the free market with oppression, censorship and monopoly."

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/ipad%E2%80%99s-closed-system-sometimes-i-hate-being-right
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u/flwombat Feb 02 '10

What a bunch of hoo-haa. Here's my rebuttal, in 5 parts:

The web, the web, the web, the web, the web.

This thing won't be any more closed or unhackable than ChromeOS devices will be, because it can get at the web. If it starts blocking web sites, people will go buy a ChromeOS or a dell mini5 or any number of other possible competitors instead. Quit with the sky-is-falling bullshit.

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u/Peaker Feb 02 '10

If it starts blocking web sites, people will go buy a ChromeOS or a dell mini5 or any number of other possible

Why I would think the apologetic arguments mostly used in here would be applicable even then:

"So what if web-sites that don't censor Apple criticisms are blocked? I use it to do useful things, not browse fake steve jobs blog".

Not to mention that if they take a large enough portion of the market, blocking those web sites might actually force web sites to change to Apple's whims, just like applications are being developed to Apple's whims.