Oh, my -- we're certainly in the midst of a scrum, aren't we? A shark's frenzy of pundits who received the new gadget are trumpeted its virtues across the Web. Xeni's review called the iPad a touch of genius. Levy declared the device giant leap for personal computers. Letterman licked it, and Woz is buying two.
Stephen Fry says don't knock it until you try it. Mossberg weighed in with a sober but positive review, while Pogue, acknowledging the seemingly burgeoning ranks of frantic Apple haters, wrote two reviews, one for "techies," and one for everyone else. There were negative voices as well, mutters about removable batteries and USB ports, and how the iPad was just a big Touch or a crippled netbook.
Then Cory Doctorow launched a broadside:
Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs. These people were able to make stuff and put it in the public's eye and even sell it without having to submit to the whims of a single company that had declared itself gatekeeper for your phone and other personal technology.Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Gadgets | Digg this!