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The iPad is a console for the non-gamer. We are all used to lock-in when it comes to game systems. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony don't let you make a game with

• jerf 17y ago
  You seem to be implying that these same people aren't upset at the console makers for the same reasons, and therefore they are hypocrites. But a sufficient number of them are upset at the console makers for the same reason, so your accusation fails. You are, after all, posting this implicit accusation the same week that geekdom has been raging about the PS3 locking down even tighter! When making a complaint, people are not obligated to run through every similar complaint they have, or face accusations of hypocrisy. In fact that would be downright tedious.
  • onedognight 17y ago
    My comment wasn't directed to this one article or its author, but to the situation in general where I see more people complaining now about the iPad's lock-in than I remember complaining when the XBox360 was released.
    • elpuri 17y ago
      Probably because console gaming had always been closed and the introduction of x360 didn't really make things any worse than they were. Also the game developers who would like to see open gaming platforms are probably outnumbered by the people who are now worried about a more closed general software industry => more noise.
• gloob 17y ago
  Because there was never any hype about how the XBox was the future of computing. That's a non-negligible difference.