Why I Won't Buy An Ipad: Ten Years Later

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Mon, 01/27/2020 - 9:20am

Ten years ago, Apple released the Ipad. I was in a hotel room in Seattle, jetlagged and awake at 4AM while my wife and daughter slept. I had been thinking about Apple's impending Ipad release and what a reversal it meant for everything I loved about tech: taking away your right to decide whose code you'd run -- even your right to change the battery!

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