Yes, you are right Paul, Apple has done a good job in dragging
incumbents out of their slumber. With the iPad this will be case for
the newspapers and other traditional written media (as they hope).
They will also solve the technical limitations. However that was not
my point.
I am glad that to see that you have positive expectations that the
walled garden will soon disappear. Personally I still find the
AppStore trend (and what the people copying them do - Sanga, thank you
for enlightening me) a frightening future. John Naughton summarizes my
fears very well in today's entry on his blog: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/04/04/10578
. He also had an article in this weekends Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/04/debate-apple-steve-jobs
)
I sincerely hope you are right. I and many with me have fought hard to
keep software open and accessible/affordable for all people. That we
can translate our favourite tools in our own language, with our own
colors, so to say. Offer a legal and free alternative to software
piracy. Etc. This model is under threat. That is what worries me
deeply. And I think that all who value Free and Open Source Software/
Content should be worried.
But, I think my analyst will buy me an iPad as she also bought me an
iPod and the other Apple stuff. I find it hard to discourage her. ;-)
Victor
PS: Are you going to bring baraza to the appstore?
On Apr 3, 2010, at 11:11, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
An important point is being missed: That Apple has done a rather
good job dragging the incumbents out of their slumber. They did it
with the laptops, they did it with the iPod, they did it with the
iPhone. You only have to look at the field of imitations to see that
this is true. iPad? Why of course this is the netbook done right! No
need to take bets on how long before others pile in (with, yes, more
openness, multitasking, etc.). For me this is the most important
aspect of this thing. At first I'd also taken the whats-the-point
view. But the more I think about it... I think the walled garden
will disappear soon enough, so will the multi-tasking limitations
(iPhone/iPad OS 4.0)... The competition is going to force it on
them. And yet Apple will still prove able to out-design them all
(just look at the field of iPhone wannabes).
So yes, my analyst (if I had one) would recommends BUY!
:)
P.
On Apr 02, 2010, at 12:25, Christopher Nambale wrote:
Well it should care for their thoughts at the very least,
considering that OS X and Iphone OS borrow their core from the open
source Freebsd community.
Granted some of Apples products are brilliantly engineered and
groundbreaking, however, isn't this whole Apple worshiping thing
going a bit too far?Well I guess the tech sector has its high
fashion supplier now.
CN
--- On Fri, 4/2/10, Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LUG] The 5 best excuses for not buying an iPad
To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:55 AM
> Free software proponents fought hard to give choice back to the
> people
unfortunately for the free software proponents (and
fortunately for apple), they are not apple's target
market and apple couldnt care less about their dime
or thoughts
eb
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