This and the fact that the iPad is choc-full of some of the most restrictive DRM ever to hit a consumer product. Defective by Design calls the iPad “a computer that will never belong to its owner.” They’re sending this to Apple: “Mr. Jobs, DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to [...]
Archive for January, 2010
iPad… not so welcomed
Posted: January 28, 2010 in Mobile, Mobile media, new media, The future, Uncategorized, What is being rolled outTags: apple, censorship, drm, free software, ipad, steve jobs
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Starting this spring, you won’t need to gather the whole family around a 15-inch laptop screen to talk with cousin Joe on the other side of the country. As a matter of fact, you won’t even need to get up off the sofa after the evening news, because Skype is coming to the big screen [...]
Take one tablet and call me
Posted: January 8, 2010 in Cellphones, iphone, mixed reality, Mobile media, new media, What is being rolled outTags: apple, ipod, islate, itouch, kindle, multimedia, tablet device
By Alistair Fairweather Of all tech companies Apple Inc is the champion of playing hard-to-get. For 18 months it has had geeks and journalists salivating over rumours of another revolutionary product. Finally, on January 5 the Wall Street Journal broke the (sort of) official news – Apple will be revealing a “multimedia tablet device” in [...]
