Da es heute nichts wirklich berichtenswertes gab, noch ein paar Worte zum iPad. Diesmal von keinem Geringeren als the one and only Stephen Fry. Seine 2180 Wörter starke Meinung ist komplett lesenswert – hier aber ein kleiner Auszug, der es auf den Punkt bringt. Warum sollte man das Ding kaufen?
“… It is made by Apple. I’m not being cute here. If it was made by Hewlett Packard, they wouldn’t have global control over the OS or the online retail outlets. If it was made by Google, they would have tendered out the hardware manufacture to HTC. Apple – and it is one of the reasons some people distrust or dislike them – control it all. They’ve designed the silicon, the A4 chip that runs it all, they’ve designed the batteries, they’ve overseen every detail of the commercial, technological, design and software elements. No other company on earth does that. And being Apple it hasn’t been released without (you can be sure) Steve Jobs being wholly convinced that it was ready. “Not good enough, start again. Not good enough. Not good enough. Not good enough.” How many other CEOs say until their employees want to murder them? That’s the difference …”
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