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Don't you think the fact that iPad SDKs and programming tutorials are readily available from Apple, plus the fact that Apple still sell Macs which interface wit
by Tycho 17y ago
Don't you think the fact that iPad SDKs and programming tutorials are readily available from Apple, plus the fact that Apple still sell Macs which interface with the iPad (but which they obviously don't want the iPad to render obsolete), contradicts your vision of the present trend? I mean the iPhone surely spurned a HUGE number of people to become (in your terms) 'creators' - and that was before non-Apple developer tools were even on the table.
- lispm 17y agoThe effect is that people are divided into developers/content providers/media providers and consumers.
- rimantas 17y agoIt is not (D),(C); it is (C (D)). We are all consumers, just some happen to be developers.
- lispm 17y agoNo, consumers are not developers on the iPad. You can't program filters for the Email program. The Email program is neither open source nor scriptable. You can't program formulas for the calculator. The people who program for iPhone OS are doing it in a completely different stage and environment. I can't just log into MY iPhone and change a program.
- rimantas 17y agoI just don't see the iPad as replacement for anything. And I was not talking about it specifically in my comment. My personal and work accounts are both using GMail. I don't have the source of it, I cannot just login and change id, but I do not care. You can get a bunch of programmable calculators in App Store, or just get Numbers and use all the formulas it offers. My car probably has a couple dozens of CPU which I have no interest to program for. My TV probably runs linux, but I am not going to hack it. Most likely I will program for iPad, but I'd hate to do it on iPad. I love to eat soup with a spoon, but I'd hate to carve spoon with a spoon.
- lispm 17y agoThat you don't want to program on the iPad does not mean others don't want that too. It does not even mean that you won't want it in the future. But there is no choice. You are at the merci of Apple. Other people want a different entertainment system in their car. With Apple you can't - you can't replace iTunes on your phone.
- zephjc 17y agoI think you are confusing developers (for the platform) and tinkerers