Weird that my last post got munged somehow... In any case, I was pointing out a post by Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ipad and a post on Fast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/iworry
With the iPhone OS being a closed system, this could be problematic in the sense that as a device that supposedly fills in the gap between the iPhone and the Mac, it doesn't really share many capabilities of a Mac. I think people are okay having a limited ability to install applications through iTunes on an iPhone due to its form factor. With this new form factor, it's much more a general computing device and expectations might be more like a Mac - being able to do things you'd expect on a Mac. I'm certain people will try to jailbreak the iPad to get around this limitation, but that's not an optimal solution. For the iPad to truly fit that space, Apple would have to give up some control, and I don't ever see that happening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48704 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
