iPad

Alex Payne en Aaron Swartz hebben beiden een punt:

Alex:

"This is why I say that the iPad is a cynical thing: Apple can't - or won't - conceive of a future for personal computing that is both elegant and open, usable and free."

Aaron:

"In their ideal world, all computing will be done on the iPhone OS. And the iPhone OS will only run software that they specifically approve. No Flash or other alternate runtimes, no one-off apps or open source customizations. Just total control by Apple. It's a frightening future."

De iPad is in hun ogen niet iets van deze 21e eeuw. De iPad dateert uit 1984. Apple is het nieuwe IBM. De cirkel is rond.

Aan de andere kant...

Michael Pusateri:

"And then one day, in a few months, you will actually hold one and use it. And you will say, 'I want one. I want one right now.' "

En ook Fraser Speirs heeft een punt:

Think of the millions of hours of human effort spent on preventing and recovering from the problems caused by completely open computer systems. Think of the lengths that people have gone to in order to acquire skills that are orthogonal to their core interests and their job, just so they can get their job done.
If the iPad and its successor devices free these people to focus on what they do best, it will dramatically change people's perceptions of computing from something to fear to something to engage enthusiastically with. I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn't a price worth paying to have a computer that isn't frightening anymore.

Volgens Steven Frank gaat het allemaal om dit onderscheid: Old World vs New World Computing.

"In the Old World, computers are general purpose, do-it-all machines. They can do hundreds of thousands of different things, sometimes all at the same time."
 
"In the New World, computers are task-centric. We are reading email, browsing the web, playing a game, but not all at once. "

Een beetje humor doet wonderen!
Lees Greg Knauss: The Days of Miracles and Wonder

Ed Finkler: We are the stupid ones

"What I've learned from interacting with most computer users, though, is that they do not give a rat's ass about how computers work. They want to accomplish certain tasks, and will do this in the way that is most sensible and direct for them. And the way they end up accomplishing these tasks within the multitasking window motif is typically not the way I would do it."

Mike Monteiro: The Failure of Empathy

"As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access. Failing to comprehend this is not only a failure of empathy, but a failure of service."

Posted by Rino Zandee at 29 januari 2010 14:13    

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