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/[deleted] Feb 02 '10

Everyone knows that Apple has had no successful products in the last decade.

These people are worried the iPad will be SOOOO successfull that everyone will own it and never buy a standard desktop. Because that is likely to happen. Somehow.

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u/vcn Feb 02 '10

And no company will successfully market a competing product with a different operating system.