il futuro del personal computing?

[gluca]

info qua

[Echo]

...bo dipende da quanto ci credono gli sviluppatori di terze parti e quanto Apple gli concederà di fare

[UnixMan]

ragazzi, alla larga dall'iPad!!!

dalla Free Software Foundation: iPad is iBad for Freedom

*With new tablet device, Apple's Steve Jobs pushes unprecedented
extension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers*

Please sign our petition to Steve Jobs at:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad

SAN FRANCISCO, California, USA -- Wednesday, January 27, 2010 -- As
Steve Jobs and Apple prepared to announce their new tablet device,
activists opposed to Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) from the
group Defective by Design were on hand to draw the media's attention to
the increasing restrictions that Apple is placing on general purpose
computers. The group set up "Apple Restriction Zones" along the
approaches to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco,
informing journalists of the rights they would have to give up to Apple
before proceeding inside.

(images from the action http://i.imgur.com/nUtZK.jpg,
http://i.imgur.com/0wpvY.jpg, http://i.imgur.com/iL2vT.jpg)

DRM is used by Apple to restrict users' freedom in a variety of ways,
including blocking installation of software that comes from anywhere
except the official Application Store, and regulating every use of
movies downloaded from iTunes. Apple furthermore claims that
circumventing these restrictions is a criminal offense, even for
purposes that are permitted by copyright law.

Organizing the protest, Free Software Foundation (FSF) operations
manager John Sullivan said, "Our Defective by Design campaign has a
successful history of targeting Apple over its DRM policies. We
organized actions and protests targeting iTunes music DRM outside Apple
stores, and under the pressure Steve Jobs dropped DRM on music. We're
here today to send the same message about the other restrictions Apple
is imposing on software, ebooks, and movies. If Jobs and Apple are
actually committed to creativity, freedom, and individuality, they
should prove it by eliminating the restrictions that make creativity and
freedom illegal."

The group is asking citizens to sign a petition calling on Steve Jobs to
remove DRM from Apple devices. The petition can be found at:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad

"Attention needs to be paid to the computing infrastructure our society
is becoming dependent upon. This past year, we have seen how human
rights and democracy protesters can have the technology they use turned
against them by the corporations who supply the products and services
they rely on. Your computer should be yours to control. By imposing such
restrictions on users, Steve Jobs is building a legacy that endangers
our freedom for his profits," said FSF executive director Peter Brown.

Other critics of DRM have asserted that Apple is not responsible, and it
is the publishers insisting on the restrictions. However, on the iPhone
and its new tablet, Apple does not provide publishers any way to opt out
of the restrictions -- even free software and free culture authors who
want to give legal permission for users to share their works.

"This is a huge step backward in the history of computing," said FSF's
Holmes Wilson, "If the first personal computers required permission from
the manufacturer for each new program or new feature, the history of
computing would be as dismally totalitarian as the milieu in Apple's
famous Super Bowl ad."


### About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org
and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.
Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

### Media Contacts

John Sullivan
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942
campaigns@fsf.org

[marziom]

vi siete lamentati di Bill Gates?! ....beccatevi la mela.
ve lo dice uno che usa (anche) un MacBook.

[gluca]

Provato oggi. E' molto piacevole e semplice da usare, per me potrebbe essere una valida alternativa al macbook a patto che ...

1) possa sempre usarlo con itunes come sorgente, quindi servono un paio di porte USB per disco esterno e connessione al dac
2) anche se poco usato, qualcosa di compatibile con word ed xls mi serve sempre

prezzo da 500$ in su. quanto un iPhone se preso a listino e senza contratti

[PPoli]

Io intanto oggi mi sono beccato
questo
Bel gioiellino. Fa un sacco di cosette e .... udite udite....supporta non solo i FLAC ma anche gli APE.

Nota di costume: ho provato a cercare un distributore in Italia perchè non volevo aspettare troppo per la spedizione. Ho telefonato a tre o quattro che l'avevano in catalogo e tutti mi hanno detto che dovevo fare una sorta di prenotazione, ordinando e pagando in anticipo e sperare poi di essere tra i fortunati a cui sarebbe spettato uno dei pochi esemplari in arrivo verso metà maggio (???? ma come????....il produttore spedisce consegna in tre giorni con TNT Express). Allora ho fatto l'ordine su un negozio online spagnolo (di Madrid). Ore 10.44 arrivata la conferma dell'addebito della carta di credito sul cellulare. 10.47 arrivata mail di conferma ordine. 11.17 arrivata mail di conferma presa in carico da parte di Fedex. Probabilmente domani ce l'ho.

[gluca]

gran bella cosa lo shopping in lungo e largo sul globo terraqueo.... e cmq mi pare cosa ben diversa dall'iPad.

[Echo]

Provato oggi. E' molto piacevole e semplice da usare, per me potrebbe essere una valida alternativa al macbook a patto che ...

1) possa sempre usarlo con itunes come sorgente, quindi servono un paio di porte USB per disco esterno e connessione al dac
2) anche se poco usato, qualcosa di compatibile con word ed xls mi serve sempre

prezzo da 500$ in su. quanto un iPhone se preso a listino e senza contratti

Ci ho giocato un po' anche io due giorni fà, ho incontrato una Giappa a tokyo che lo aveva comprato a New York ed era andata all' Applestore di Tokyo a fare la sborona e mi ci sono fatto un giretto. Sembra molto ben fatto, ma ancora non ho capito se è il dispositivo per me hehe ...comunque oggi ho scoperto che con l'adattatore usb che vendono per scaricare le foto dalla fotocamera si possono collegare altre periferiche usb tra le quali anche schede audio!