iPad and iPhone too closed for me
Friday, October 8th, 2010I like the iPad and iPhone hardware, but now they’re starting to get too closed for me. I think a lot of people complain about that, but I don’t have any objection to what Apple is doing. Everyone has their own business model and way of doing things and this seems to be working for most of their customers. But since I’m a bit of a tech enthusiast and occasional tinkerer, I think I’d like to experiment more with some other platforms that are more open and allow for tinkering. I don’t plan on moving away from the Macintosh platform, but I am using Ubuntu pretty regularly and I’ve been very pleased with it. I think I’m going to get an Android tablet to play with. I haven’t really been impressed with what I’ve read of Android devices, though. Perhaps owning and regularly using one will change my mind.