The way you improve your iPad isn’t to figure out how it works and making it better. The way you improve the iPad is to buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn’t a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it’s a way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals.
Corey Doctorow - Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either)
I think Doctorow really gets at the essence of what bothers me about the iPad, and Apple’s closed environment in general.
Source: Boing Boing
