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How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac

To put it briefly, I think the new, mobile Apple is doing immense harm to the computing legacy the company has forged. We could have had a Mac tablet today. Instead, we have a giant iPhone – and that’s a decision that has some serious repercussions. It’s a blow to open source alternatives, but also to open development in general: the power of interchangeable hardware and software, on which everything we do with music and visuals on computers is based.
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I’m entirely biased by my own perspective. There are certain things I care about, that I believe in. I can talk about the technical, measurable values of each of those, but I can only speak for myself. With that in mind, the iPad, in a single device, embodies the exact opposite of all the reasons I’ve invested so much time in computing for the last 25 years.
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Thats pretty much what I think too.

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Posted 6 months ago

It’s the first hands-on review of the Apple Tablet! « Walt Mosspuppet

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Posted 6 months ago

MSI dualscreen e-reader hands-on (update: video!) -- Engadget

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Very cool!

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Posted 6 months ago

Microsoft may upstage Apple with new 'tablet' handheld computer - And btw hell has frozen over!

The device could be a major blow to Apple, which is widely expected to unveil its tablet, thought to be called iSlate, on January 27. It will also challenge e-readers, such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s eReader.
via telegraph.co.uk

I could have taken this seriously until I read that there is no chance this is the microsoft courier thing! So now I'm just rofl!

Update: Yup its just the same old Windows in a slate form factor. Sad.

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Posted 6 months ago

The End of Book Publishing As We Know It

few days ago, I watched a video demo of the “SI Tablet” (see video below), a new eBook device developed by Time, Inc. and The Wonderfactory. It demonstrates how a touch screen, portability, and the convergence of text, audio, and video can create unprecedented opportunities for content providers. Frankly, it is the most compelling media device I have seen yet
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I'm never going to be one of those people who buys these. Sorry I just can't. I like computers because they aren't consumer devices. I can produce whatever I want using the computer. These so called "media devices" are just one way consumer devices, meant for mindless drones. Waste of time. I don't own a TV. If I am watching something on a TV I feel bad. I'm not saying I don't consume media, I'm saying I will never consume media on a device on which I can't produce media. It might be what the rest of the world wants, but for me its just wrong.

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Posted 7 months ago