How is me choosing some non apple-Os X-Touch device going to affect
the impulse, or lack thereof, to tinker in some 10 year old proto-
programmer?

I'm guessing you don't understand the point of this thread at all. You
should do well to read before commenting.

On Feb 18, 1:22 am, Oscar Hsieh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Look people, the point is that you have choice.  If you don't like  
> iPod, there are other decent PMPs out there.   If you don't like  
> iPhone, just get a blackberry or android phone.  If you don't like  
> ipad,  pick one of those ipad wannabe win7 tablets available today.  
> It's not like ms office that only until recently you have no choice  
> but to use it if you want to share documents with the rest of the  
> word.  Itune might be proprietory, but there are other music download  
> service out there.
>
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]
>
>
>
>  > wrote:
> > On 2/17/10 18:14 , Casper Bang wrote:
> >>> Apple does not the chance to enjoy such
> >>> market dominance (except ipod but that is just an appliance)
>
> >> It's funny how everyone keeps invoking the device/appliance argument,
> >> as if somehow that turns a computer into a toaster. Apple are well
> >> under way of achieving dominance and I guess we're just some who see
> >> grave dangers in that prospect and who aren't ready to take the blue
> >> pill.
>
> > I substantially agree with all the post, but I specifically wanted  
> > to stress this point. "It's (only) an appliance" makes things worse.  
> > First, "appliance" might be just a marketing term, but the key point  
> > is that they are equipment used to communicate, so they are  
> > definitely not a toaster. And, being "appliances", they are much  
> > more pervasive than computers. In other words, at the old time of  
> > Microsoft evilness, we were talking about computers, and they were  
> > spread with a small fragment of the population; tv, radio and  
> > newspapers were the classical ones and the major communication  
> > channel. Now, these "appliances" will go in the hands of most of the  
> > population and the channel convergence will make them more and more  
> > relevant as most of the communication will flow through them.
>
> > What about if the next Apple product was an iTV, extremely cool and  
> > powerful, and Apple decided which channels you can receive?
>
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