Then there’s the device itself: clearly there’s a lot of thoughtfulness and smarts that went into the design. But there’s also a palpable contempt for the owner. I believe — really believe — in the stirring words of the Maker Manifesto: if you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Screws not glue.

i got one, i am velcro’ing it to my elliptical trainer to read blogs while i get my daily sweat on. but i basically agree with cory.

Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) - Boing Boing

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hapa: Wow.  Cory is a guy who can get very fired up about some stuff while simultaneously missing the point about so much else.  There’s a lot of baggage in his thesis.  There must be, because any reasonably innovative newcomer to the space might also consider the promise the iPad brings by being one hell of a conduit for browsing the web, using web apps, and communicating with other networked devices on the LAN or WAN over TCP/IP… so if he could take the blinders off that he thinks he doesn’t have on, he’d see much more potential for building on the iPad beyond what he might achieve by hacking the circuit board and relying on (just) an open native app infrastructure.

I loved tearing apart gadgets when I was younger with the best of em, but it’s really all about what level of abstraction you choose to define the components you innovate with and work to integrate into compelling experiences for users…  

A counter thesis then might be: User’s want to own their experiences… not necessarily their tools for acquiring them.

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