“In the meantime, Adobe and Microsoft will continue to stamp their feet and whine.”
bogodynamics:infoneer-pulse:doublejack:
”[…] Think of the millions of hours of human effort spent on preventing and recovering from the problems caused by completely open computer systems. Think of the lengths that people have gone to in order to acquire skills that are orthogonal to their core interests and their job, just so they can get their job done.
If the iPad and its successor devices free these people to focus on what they do best, it will dramatically change people’s perceptions of computing from something to fear to something to engage enthusiastically with. I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn’t a price worth paying to have a computer that isn’t frightening anymore.”
— Frasier Speirs (via @jasonfried)
If you work in technology, read this article—if the points being made aren’t true of the iPad, they will be true of some device in the future.
