Posted on | April 25, 2010 | No Comments

I have been following Cory Doctorow for some time.

Whether it is on BoingBoing or his own site Cory Doctorow is what we can call a switched on guy.

One of the most interesting rants from Cory I have read in a while is about the iPad!

I have posted a piece here BUT if you click the title it takes you to the full and worth your while piece on BoingBoing.

Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either)

Cory Doctorow at 5:23 AM April 2, 2010

I’ve spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn’t come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it’s come from experimentalist amateurs. These people were able to make stuff and put it in the public’s eye and even sell it without having to submit to the whims of a single company that had declared itself gatekeeper for your phone and other personal technology.

Danny O’Brien does a very good job of explaining why I’m completely uninterested in buying an iPad — it really feels like the second coming of the CD-ROM “revolution” in which “content” people proclaimed that they were going to remake media by producing expensive (to make and to buy) products. I was a CD-ROM programmer at the start of my tech career, and I felt that excitement, too, and lived through it to see how wrong I was, how open platforms and experimental amateurs would eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros.

It is nice to read the other side of the coin from someone who is informed and articulate.

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