Thread: iPad IPad Design - if Apple was custom designing one for me
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Old 02-02-2010, 08:25 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole View Post
Calling a device with 160,000 applications at launch "closed" is a bit of a stretch.
It is closed.
Because Apple is censoring what applications you are allowed to run.
There are lots of applications that were removed from the Apple App Store because they were "duplicating functionality" or provided way for user to make his own program.
Commodore C64 emulator is one of the victims of Apple censors. The emulator came with its 30 year old version of C64 BASIC interpreter so Apple pulled it from the Store.
What I am going to make in an C64 BASIC interpreter? A "Hello World" program?

For me, to consider ever buying an iPad it would have to be able to run Vim text editor. You will NEVER going to see a full-blown Vim on iPad, because much of the functionality of Vim is implemented by running scripts and programs written in a built-in Vim programming language. Even a default configuration file is in fact a program.
This is just one little example why iPad can not be considered open.

Let's wait and see. I am extremely curious if Apple lets us to run ANY e-book reading application besides iBooks. From what I have seen so far, a PocketBook 360 implementation of FBReader is much more powerful than iBooks. It does not feature that slick spinning bookcase, but I can set any font I like, I can set margins, line spacing, justification, even fine-tune hyphenation. I can organize my books in folders. And all that is because PocketBook is open.
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