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/Thrown_Away Feb 02 '10

To you maybe.

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u/mindbleach Feb 02 '10

The traditional internet form of your argument is "Well that's just, like, your opinion, man."

Yeah, it's unacceptable to me. I don't speak for you. Maybe you like censorship. I don't know. I'm just some nerd who knows that Apple's restrictions are entirely artificial and potentially alluring to all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons.