Cory Doctorow on iPad, Apple ][+

[DaveSchmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

An excerpt from his latest rant - kinda true, though:

Infantalizing hardware
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. The original Apple ][+ came with
schematics for the circuit boards, and birthed a generation of
hardware and software hackers who upended the world for the better. If
you wanted your kid to grow up to be a confident, entrepreneurial, and
firmly in the camp that believes that you should forever be
rearranging the world to make it better, you bought her an Apple ][+.

pasted from:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either.html

Dave...