On the other hand, the article misses the point too: if the iPad had everything modifiable
(a) most people wouldn't bother,
(b) the fewer that would bother would include programmers and tinkerers who could create awesome stuff, but also marketers, spammers, crackers, bad programmers, etc, who would create malicious or totally crap stuff that would undermine the stability, functionality, security, etc of the system to a total nightmare.
(Not to mention those were made in an era where you didn't have your personal life plus credit cards on a computer).
In the end of the day the allure of the iPad is that if worse comes to worse, 99% of the time you reboot (or just close an app) and everything is like new. And most of the time it just works.
Android is nowhere near as open as the Smalltalk systems, but is more open than the iPad, and is plagued by the majority of malicious code (according to research).
And there are ways to just open it totally and write anything you want on it, but most don't care.
(a) most people wouldn't bother,
(b) the fewer that would bother would include programmers and tinkerers who could create awesome stuff, but also marketers, spammers, crackers, bad programmers, etc, who would create malicious or totally crap stuff that would undermine the stability, functionality, security, etc of the system to a total nightmare.
(Not to mention those were made in an era where you didn't have your personal life plus credit cards on a computer).
In the end of the day the allure of the iPad is that if worse comes to worse, 99% of the time you reboot (or just close an app) and everything is like new. And most of the time it just works.
Android is nowhere near as open as the Smalltalk systems, but is more open than the iPad, and is plagued by the majority of malicious code (according to research).
And there are ways to just open it totally and write anything you want on it, but most don't care.