The noPad Manifesto

Cory Doctorow mit einer recht schlüssigen Erzählung, warum man das iPad nicht kaufen sollte

Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They’re apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
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So what does Marvel do to “enhance” its comics? They take away the right to give, sell or loan your comics. What an improvement. Way to take the joyous, marvellous sharing and bonding experience of comic reading and turn it into a passive, lonely undertaking that isolates, rather than unites.
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But with the iPad, it seems like Apple’s model customer is that same stupid stereotype of a technophobic, timid, scatterbrained mother as appears in a billion renditions of “that’s too complicated for my mom” (listen to the pundits extol the virtues of the iPad and time how long it takes for them to explain that here, finally, is something that isn’t too complicated for their poor old mothers).
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The way you improve your iPad isn’t to figure out how it works and making it better. The way you improve the iPad is to buy iApps.
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If you want to live in the fair world where you get to keep (or give away) the stuff you buy, the iPad isn’t for you.