“Apple’s iPad is a rather different case … it’s an appliance, and locked down as the manufacturer sees fit. I don’t buy that this is … the thin end of the wedge, and we’ll all wake up one day and find that our PCs and Macs refused to obey our orders. … This fantasy reveals rather more about the person making the argument: a predictably patronising view of us all as zombies, mixed to a peculiarly foreboding flavour of paranoia.”
This witch-hunt will hurt Adobe more than Apple
This sums up exactly what I feel when I read a lot of the hyperbole about how the iPhone/iPad means the Mac will be ‘locked down’ in a similar manner. They seem to believe that they and they alone are able to learn from the past, that the rest of us can’t make our own decisions and must be forced into seeing the light.
