Comments on: How the iPad is Already Affecting the Market http://blog.appboy.com/2010/03/how-the-ipad-is-already-affecting-the-market/ App Discovery, Mobile Content, Trends in Tech Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:39:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AndroidsAndSheep http://blog.appboy.com/2010/03/how-the-ipad-is-already-affecting-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-5719 AndroidsAndSheep Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:45:41 +0000 http://blog.appboy.com/?p=2630#comment-5719 I much preferred the vision of the TechCrunch tablet (http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/21/the-techcrunch-web-tablet-project/) Cheap, portable, and very web-browser centric. The iPad seems like it's going backwards in terms of how advanced web technology already is, and how open information access has become due to anyone being able to publish to the web. With the iPhone it was sort of acceptable due to its small form-factor and processor speeds but for something that suppose to be "better" than a netbook, I find that this native app-centric view of computing is troublesome, especially when apps are censored. I much preferred the vision of the TechCrunch tablet (http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/21/the-techcrunch-web-tablet-project/)

Cheap, portable, and very web-browser centric.

The iPad seems like it’s going backwards in terms of how advanced web technology already is, and how open information access has become due to anyone being able to publish to the web.

With the iPhone it was sort of acceptable due to its small form-factor and processor speeds but for something that suppose to be “better” than a netbook, I find that this native app-centric view of computing is troublesome, especially when apps are censored.

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