4 Jul
2012
4 Jul
'12
12:08 a.m.
On 4 Jul 2012, at 07:50, Dave McGuire wrote:
Sure, but...does anyone actually believe that this
will actually come
to pass? I mean, heck, there are hobbyist-designed computers almost
literally FLYING off the shelves these days, witness the Raspberry Pi
and its ilk. Apple's continued good luck with iPad sales won't put a
dent in the popularity of stuff like that (any more than it could put a
dent in, say, sales of boxes of nails) and it certainly won't stop
people from designing new ones.
Exactly. People who care about being able to futz with stuff will continue to futz about
with stuff they can futz with. Some will play with open stuff and use closed stuff as a
'commodity' device, like I use my iPhone. Others will hack their commodity devices
to make them do what they want. The problem here is not that the change in paradigm of
deices kills xyz it's that the ideas of how devices are built and work are changing
rapidly and the open community needs to catch up and stop pushing OSs and software for
desktops when they are going out of fashion as anything other than overgrown games
consoles.
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