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Originally Posted by Lazarpandar
NPR does not have advertising on their website. Please educate yourself before making such comments.
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2010-04-12
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Apple wants to be your media controller.
The fact that they want to and could should scare some sobriety (and indignation) into all of us.
The fact that they want to and could should scare some sobriety (and indignation) into all of us.
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2010-04-12
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Originally Posted by Lazarpandar
You may have something there.
Seems like a sensationalist article to attract ad revenue.
The article struck me as as wildly extreme, albeit on the other end of the spectrum, as Apple is with describing the iPad as a "magical device".
It's not the end of the world as we know it, neither armageddon nor the second coming.
I bought the device to see what it really was (I can send it back to Apple for 90% of its value - or sell it on eBay for 125% maybe).
It does some things (e-reading) reasonably well, though the glossy screen is a pain. My Kindle DX is better because the display is "flat". What is shows of the web is shown well. Email is fast and clean.
It is less encumbered than tabletPCs I've used in the past - and less functional.
There's no perfect device - and very few "evil" ones.
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2010-04-12
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If you promise me that iPad will kill Flash, I'll buy one. Or two. The most expensive model.
While it's on kill mode, it could also go ahead and finally finish off IE6.
As for the Internet... I don't think so. At least until big media houses start buying ISPs.
While it's on kill mode, it could also go ahead and finally finish off IE6.
As for the Internet... I don't think so. At least until big media houses start buying ISPs.
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There's an old saying about boiling frogs slowly that works well here. 
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2010-04-12
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Originally Posted by kjmackey
He has nothing. NPR is mostly listener funded, many of those listeners tuning in via the NPR apps on the App Store.
You may have something there.
The article struck me as as wildly extreme, albeit on the other end of the spectrum, as Apple is with describing the iPad as a "magical device".
There's no perfect device - and very few "evil" ones.
Zittrain and Sweeting worry that if the iPad becomes popular, both entertainment and computing companies will imitate its closed system.
Sweeting says he thinks many of the major media companies would love to see computers discourage people from searching the open Internet for content.
"I think the media companies will leap at this," he says. "It offers them the opportunity to essentially re-create the old business model, wherein they are pushing content to you on their terms rather than you going out and finding content, or a search engine discovering content for you."
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2010-04-12
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Originally Posted by Texrat
And an old (from the late 70's/early 80's) song too...
There's an old saying about boiling frogs slowly that works well here.
Freedom of choice, is what you've got.
Freedom from choice, is what you want.
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2010-04-12
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The marketing and consumer peer-pressure blitz to feel accepted by owning that thing is amazing, I kept trying to figure out a legit reason to even owning one, yet I would buy one for my old retired mom since I can understand its instant on and straight to email/pics. But for myself?! nah, never, bleh, I would like to tinker with it probably and pass it on to the senior citizen after.
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2010-04-13
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"Give a man enough rope, and he will hang himself."
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I don't see the iPad 'replacing' the internet at this point.
I do see (and agree) that the iPad (+eco system) is seen by the 'conventional' media companies as a way to deliver their (paper) content in the 'digital age' way, while still retaining their controls and potentially getting revenues off it.
But, what's the problem with this? It only happens in Apple's gated community anyway (for now). They cannot implement this on the web.
I do see (and agree) that the iPad (+eco system) is seen by the 'conventional' media companies as a way to deliver their (paper) content in the 'digital age' way, while still retaining their controls and potentially getting revenues off it.
But, what's the problem with this? It only happens in Apple's gated community anyway (for now). They cannot implement this on the web.
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