Ok, let's play a game of "Who Can Get In the Last Word!"

What it comes down to is a corporate drive towards a society of "renters" where we pay full price and own nothing. Looks great on the balance sheets and they can punish their customers for their transgressions, first by killing their property then by unleashing their attack dogs (the FBI.)

The corporations clamoring to get on the iPad are hoping that it will take off wildly so they can crowd out alternative sources of information. The internet as-is doesn't allow for it, especially when I can read Wikileaks to read about their latest transgressions.

Now you can say "that's the market at work," but the companies in question -hate- the market. The market is how they got to where they are. So they seek to cut off the market.

The first means is by removing regulation that, until it was removed, prevented so few entities from controlling so much. The second is to control the channels by which the information is distributed.

Mind you, that's the long, wrong end of this path. We're already on it, however.

So yeah, a tiny bit of caution being covered in the news and a few people expressing a dislike of iron-fisted post-purchase control is neither unwarranted nor unreasonable. Please stop trying to paint it as such.