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It is a wonderful step forward to be sure, and it is probably a great fit for your parents and numerous other uses. But can you please not bastardize and hollo
by nooneelse 16y ago
It is a wonderful step forward to be sure, and it is probably a great fit for your parents and numerous other uses. But can you please not bastardize and hollow out, in this "good journalist" zeal, the soul of the Dynabook ideal. Not reduce that concept in service of making sound better this product which uses, as fall-back position number one, in response to any criticisms, the line "but it is for content consumption". This device could have been, and still could be (if it were allowed) the embodiment of that ideal. But Apple has held it back from crossing that line.
Maybe I'm being crotchety here, I can see that possibility. Maybe this coffee buzz and this morning's urge to hold on to some piece of naïve idealism is leading me astray, but there was something deeper in the ideal of the Dynabook. Something noble and in line with the best of humanity in the intention to free every individual to use the computer as an expansion of themselves. Not just the narrower vision of the next step in couch-potato consumption along controlled and approved channels. Do the journalists' eyes not see the difference? Can't you?