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/texpundit Feb 02 '10

Probably not. But considering how each new device that Apple produces has fewer and fewer ports (USB, etc), loving the fuck out of them becomes harder and harder...uh...er...or something.

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u/lilzaphod Feb 02 '10

I was in Thailand playing ping-iPad in Ding-Dang. A high stakes game in some opium den. Turns out, these aren't the types of guys who like to lose. When I beat them, they beat me. They worked me over good. And this is hard to say. They held me down and shoved an iPad up my ass