In his article this morning on BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow, sci-fi writer, tech guru and University of Waterloo prof. suggests a series of very compelling reasons why he won’t—and we shouldn’t—buy a new Apple iPad. Clearly, he’s thought a lot about it and his article is such a wonderful breath of fresh air in a tech market that’s gone nearly out of control.

The cliff notes:

If you can’t open it and take it apart, you don’t own it. You’re locked into only the content that Apple says you can have. It won’t save the journalism industry. It’s over-simplified. It takes away from what makes computers and gadgets great: being able to mess around and share them. It’s a fad.

A highly recommended read.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 9:04 am and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.