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Old 04-06-2010, 07:20 PM   #209
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When Microsoft stopped shipping Basic with DOS, I wondered what the world was coming to. How could they expect to sell PCs without a programming language? That, after all, was what had made the Apple II and the C-64 so fun. For better or worse, I was dead wrong. As Ralph Sir Edward points out, the tinkerer class is small compared to the consumer class. I don't think the iPad's success or failure hinges on whether it creates an easy environment for application creation for amateurs.

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