[LINK] Steve Jobs: Great unwashed don't need PCs

[Richard Chirgwin]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
> On 03/06/2010, at 11:57 AM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
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>> And I am concerned, not at the device itself, but the idea that people 
>> will get kind of habituated to the kind of control that Apple is applying.
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> This, I believe, is a fallback to the previous computing era model: that there be no restrictions on how the device operates.
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> Oddly, I have no interest in controlling how my car or fridge works, or what kind of control that the parent company applies, so long as I can use it the way that I want to - they annoy me at times with the decisions that they've made, but I made the choice to buy them in the first place...
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"So that I can use it the way I want it" - breaks if you can't run the 
software you want and/or need.

But more importantly, the control I have in mind is over the content you 
can view, or easily view. This is, IMO, quite vulnerable (c.f. 
censorship debates).

RC
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