Apple (now) opposes tinkerers

By Radical Jinn on March 16, 2010 6:20 PM | | Comments (0)
ben fry: There's simply no reason to prevent people from installing anything they want on the iPad. The same goes for the iPhone. When the iPhone appeared, Steve Jobs made a ridiculous claim that a rogue application could "take down the network." That's an insult to common sense ... The $499 iPad that has no data network hardware is not in danger of "taking down" anyone's cell network, but applications will still be required to go through the app store and therefore, its approval process.

Computing platforms need to remain open. Tinkerers explore and innovate. Apple will lose this battle.

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