Attn Joe [Hewitt]: Should we trust iPad?

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36 points·jfornear··9 comments

"But I don't trust these companies, and I especially don't trust Apple or Google with my writing work. I can see a day when what I write has to be approved by someone who works for Steve Jobs before it can be read publicly."

When I read something like this, it makes it harder to take the surrounding article seriously.

I don't get it. The iPad has a web browser, and a good one. Doesn't this undermine his entire argument? Is this more about Facebook or about Apple?

I think those criticizing Apple's closed environment should focus their energy instead on creating a better platform or product.

Unfortunately, people dissatisfied with Apple are creating N different platforms and none of them has enough R&D budget to match Apple. Android vs. Maemo vs. Chrome OS is the new GNOME vs. KDE.

"Apple would never approve anything remotely like the OPML Editor"

Why wouldn't they?

It's an IDE and runtime for the UserTalk programming language.

Perhaps it's an app that should be running in the cloud, similar to what Palm is trying to do with Project Ares.

http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html

I think Apple's attitude is that anything that can't run in a safe, restricted sandbox needs to get the hell out of the consumer's device and run on your servers.

I'd say that's a good thing. Radio Userland is not the poster boy for simplicity.

Ah I see... the description on the site made it sound like a text editor.

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