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by juhgfcgvhnjm 17y ago
Yes as a way of consuming content it's great (but so is any $100 screen with 3G - there is nothing iApple great) The point is that there is a fundemental difference. The first home computers let you create your own books/fanzines, then they
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by juhgfcgvhnjm 17y ago
The iPad isn't a computer. It has a cpu, but so does my toaster, it's a portable cableTV box. The point of a personal computer is that you are in charge, you create content, with an iPad you pay to download and watch other people's content
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by juhgfcgvhnjm 17y ago
Then give Fedex/TNT/DHL/etc the same subsidy/letter to do it that you give the USPS.
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by juhgfcgvhnjm 17y ago
The OOXML project was a great success. The point was to allow MS to claim that there was no propriety lock in and so it was perfectly reasonable for governments to standardize on it's format. The aim was also to ensure that nobody could rea
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by juhgfcgvhnjm 17y ago
Apple didn't invent this, the Psion3 PDA was so beautifully made like this that people couldn't help handling it - and they didn't get fingerprints on the screen, and it had a keyboard, and it took regular batteries.
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by juhgfcgvhnjm 17y ago
It's a good way to monetize a website. Charging you $0.1 to read HN or the NYT or the BBC is hard, selling you a $10 app to read the site on your iWhatever is easier. The app is a trivial wrapper around an xml feed, it's a slightly better u
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by juhgfcgvhnjm 17y ago
The problem with the UK's libel laws is that you have to prove what you say. This makes sense if I write an article calling you a child murderer - you sue me and I have to prove it's true (ie you murdered a child) you don't have to prove yo