<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">As others have pointed out, a toaster is a specialized device. The iPad is a computer geared toward content consumption and not a lot of sys admin or developer type tinkering. I understand all of that. But what I'm not prepared to accept is that Apple should have total control over what I install on it...even to the point of removing things they have decided shouldn't be there (and they have that ability). Also, they reserve the right to censor apps based on content. They did this when they excluded Mark Fiore's app from the iPhone app store because it "ridicules public figures". Granted, they reinstated the app when they figured out that Fiore was a Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist. But they haven't changed their stance on public figures and the next censored app may be from somebody who didn't win a Pulitzer Prize. Apple wants to create a world of content consumption devices where they have total censorship rights over the content. If you're happy with that Disneyfied world of content, then good for you. If you're not, then you may not want to give Apple the right to decide where freedom of speech ends.<br>
</font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
There is no point in trying to get some folks to see reason. They see<br>
such items as a traditional computer, not as the specialized devices<br>
that they are. They also have some irrational opinions of certain<br>
companies, and would rather make up silly names and FUD than just<br>
ignore the subject.<br>
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~ James<br>
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On Wednesday, August 18, 2010, Jerald Sheets <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com" target="_blank">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> And I reiterate:<br>
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> Face-palm... shakes head.<br>
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> sheesh, people.<br>
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> This is the same set of attitudes which if held by the religious is called fanaticism. Chill, it's only circuits.<br>
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>> I won't own a piece of hardware where the egomaniacal corporapist<br>
>> manufacturer assumes they retain ownership after you've paid for it.<br>
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</div><div>--<br>
James Sumners<br>
<a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br>
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts<br>
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it<br>
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
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Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>
CH:D 59<br>
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