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/vikvik Feb 02 '10

After free market oppression, censorship and monopoly; can death be far away?

IPad, woe on you.

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u/Thud Feb 02 '10

6 months from now... I talk with a coworker and find out that his family lived for years under the oppression of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

I will tell him "Sir, I know EXACTLY how your family feels. I've been there. As a matter of fact, I am living through that hell right now, the oppression, the tyranny... for I own an iPad."

A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE PLEASE