I think that's the biggest lost opportunity of the iPad. I read through Alan Kay's Early History of Smalltalk [1] essay recently, and the level of applications

I think that's the biggest lost opportunity of the iPad. I read through Alan Kay's Early History of Smalltalk [1] essay recently, and the level of applications young teenagers were developing with the rudimentary hardware is truly astonishing. The iPad is not facilitating that type of thing for the most part, but it also arguably goes in the opposite direction, encouraging a highly siloed, app-centric view of computing where users have even less direct agency over data. [1]: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/