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Can You Survive A Benevolent Dictatorship?

Posted at 6:48AM Monday 19 Apr 2010

The first press accounts of the Apple iPad have been long on emotional raves about its beauty and ease of use, but have glossed over its competitive characteristics—or rather, its lack thereof. Some have characterized the iPad as an evolution from flexible-but-complicated computers to simple, elegant appliances. But has there ever been an "appliance" with the kind of competitive control Apple now enjoys over the iPad?

Cory Doctorow in PW

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