Thread: European Parliament to buy iPads for every member
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Old 05-25-2010, 02:37 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Logseman View Post
I'm a bit pissed off, sincerely. Though it is fitting that one of the most obscure organisations in the whole Earth opens its gates to one of the most obscure, closed-source-friendly gizmos ever made, I would like it not shoved in my face.
I'm not a huge fan of the iPad. That said:

1) No one is making a competing product yet.
2) Though the platform is closed (and in many ways a PITA), access to content isn't particularly controlled.
3) Though the platform is closed, they can develop their own apps, with private and secure channels, to distribute information. E.g. they can develop an app that can push out encrypted PDF's to the MEP's via the Enterprise app setup.
4) It's a lot easier to deal with a single unified hardware/software platform than a dozen different open source firmwares and hardware configs.

So, I have to say I'm not really seeing what advantage open source has here, especially at this point in time.
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