THE Lowly Peon

Old World and New World Computing

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31 January 2010, 3:32am

I just linked to this in a comment on saluemander's post, ipad chat blog, but needed to post it again here because I agree so much with a large majority of stevenf's piece.

a choice quote, aimed somewhat directly at sir bentomas:

When the iPhone came out, I was immediately in love, but frustrated by the lack of an SDK. When an SDK came out, I was overjoyed, but frustrated by Apple’s process. As some high-profile problems began to pile up, I infamously railed against the whole idea right here on this very blog. I announced I was beginning a boycott of iPhone-based devices until changes were made, and I certainly, certainly was not going to buy any future iPhone-based products. I switched to various other devices that were a bit more friendly to Old Worlders.

It lasted all of a month.

For as frustrated as I was with the restrictions, those exact same restrictions made the New World device a high-performance, high-reliability, absolute workhorse of a machine that got out of my way and just let me get things accomplished.