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Originally Posted by Dylrob
While I won't deny the existence of an "Apple cult", I'm starting to think there is also an "anti-Apple cult".
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I think there certainly
are people who are anti-Apple simply because it's Apple. I tend to think there aren't a lot of such people, though. There are rational reasons to like and dislike Apple products.
(The following is just my opinion. Take it for what it's worth.)
The iPad, specifically, has its good points. It's got a beautiful screen, and Apple obviously's gotten the UI as right as they could get it without a physical keyboard.
On the other hand, what I think they've gotten horribly, horribly wrong is the closed software ecosystem. Any company even
trying to tell me what applications I am allowed to run on my computer is something that's not going to fly with me. Yes, of course you can jailbreak your iPad, but the point is you shouldn't
have to. What business is it of Apple's what I run on my machine? To save themselves some money on tech support and reputation points vis a vis viruses they're going to lock down my machine so I can't install what I want? I don't
think so.
And now they're trying to move that experience on to OS X proper by incorporating an App Store there.
Having said all that, if an iPad could be modded to run Linux, and I could afford it, I'd be all over it.
(As an aside, I have to admit that one of the criticisms I have of my Kindle is that it uses a modified, much more locked-down version of Linux. I'd like to see it opened up a bit more so that you could have things like a note-taking app, or even a full-fledged word processor that saved to Kindle format.
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