The response to Swartz's post that comes to mind for me is to ask what the iPod and iTunes have done for the greater music market, while still holding onto to a great deal of its comprehensive control.
Scott On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Neil Cadsawan <n...@cadsawan.net> wrote: > Weird that my last post got munged somehow... > > In any case, I was pointing out a post by Aaron Swartz: > http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ipad and a post on Fast Company: > http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/iworry > > With the iPhone OS being a closed system, this could be problematic > in the sense that as a device that supposedly fills in the gap > between the iPhone and the Mac, it doesn't really share many > capabilities of a Mac. > > I think people are okay having a limited ability to install > applications through iTunes on an iPhone due to its form factor. > With this new form factor, it's much more a general computing device > and expectations might be more like a Mac - being able to do things > you'd expect on a Mac. > > I'm certain people will try to jailbreak the iPad to get around this > limitation, but that's not an optimal solution. For the iPad to > truly fit that space, Apple would have to give up some control, and I > don't ever see that happening. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48704 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- "You always have the carny connection." - Clair High ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
