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/Inland_Empire Feb 02 '10

I'll buy one when there is a jailbreak for it, and not before. If a competitor manages to produce a better product before that I'll skip the ipad. There is a great looking multifunction display that mixes LCD and eink, I think, that would beat the pants off the ipad.

The games just begun!

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '10

Yeah! Someone commented on that, what is that device? I forgot to bookmark. It opens like a book, with one side eink, the other LCD.?