Comments on: Are Tablets the Future of Computing? http://vidaliconsulting.com/2010/02/04/are-tablets-the-future-of-computing/ Information Technology solutions Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Reg Mueler http://vidaliconsulting.com/2010/02/04/are-tablets-the-future-of-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Reg Mueler Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:09 +0000 http://vidaliconsulting.com/?p=84#comment-37 It's true, the closed silo of Apple is the antithesis of Jobs' own roots. Gone are the days of every local haker putting software in a brown bag for sale at the local electronics stores. While I'm not sure the world needs the 2010 version of <a href="http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue73/miami_ice.php" rel="nofollow">Miami Ice </a> givign free access to a platform inspires gifted developers and brings loyalty to the new. Perhaps in the days of rapid iteration nerd loyalty is no longer needed to build a credible developer base. Programmers aren't working out of their garage and users aren't the developers themselves but the general buying public. Maybe Apple isn't so far off after all. It’s true, the closed silo of Apple is the antithesis of Jobs’ own roots. Gone are the days of every local haker putting software in a brown bag for sale at the local electronics stores. While I’m not sure the world needs the 2010 version of Miami Ice givign free access to a platform inspires gifted developers and brings loyalty to the new.

Perhaps in the days of rapid iteration nerd loyalty is no longer needed to build a credible developer base. Programmers aren’t working out of their garage and users aren’t the developers themselves but the general buying public.

Maybe Apple isn’t so far off after all.

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