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Old 10-03-2009, 09:54 PM   #20
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oh yeah they both lock stuff down, don't get me wrong. But with the Apple tablet I envision use of Google docs or similar. You can use the iPhone as a simple interface to open plain text, google docs and rtfs. Formats that can be used on any platform.

The way courier works it looks like it would REQUIRE a new proprietary format so it can handle all of that new meta data. Microsoft is also the kind of company that hordes market share by creating compulsory upgrades, for example creating the .docx format. They make money by compelling people into upgrades and on their locked in platforms (as does Apple to an 'extent').
as long as you pay aPpLe it's licensing fee to "aPpRoVE" the 3rd party who actually wrote the software you want to run on your apPLe {insert device name here}. And ApPlE is not shy about taking their cut of those fees either. Makes Martha Stewart's sweatshops look tame by comparison.

BTW, you mention "...the way the Courier works...", huh? We have no idea how it works. I suspect you are close to correct, but then again so is every device mentioned on this site as well as pretty much every PDA device ever made.

Personally I could care less...all I want is a device that lets me get the job done...they are all soul-less greed based companies intent on domination of every person on the planet...soon as people really come to grips with that concept we can all jump into the Grand Canyon together.
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