Google and Microsoft answer…
Further, there is more (here from the New York Times) about Apple restricting what developers can do with the product, putting the breaks on reverse engineering. Of course Apple’s answer is that it is providing a flexible platform that is all about user convenience…with the caveat that the gears are Apple’s–you own the chassis, not the engine. Maybe this isn’t an issue, but at $250 a pop plus it sure feels like we are moving away from a garage friendly environment for developing computing to one that is thoroughly proprietary, off limits proprietary. Human beings are at more liberty when they operate in a context of understanding…you could investigate analog technology, you could investigate HTML. Within investigation comes curiosity, to answer curiosity there is imagine. There is frankly something insidious about the iPad…