By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026You know what's even better than being *consulted* on the design of the technology you use? Having *direct control* over that technology! 19 1252
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026This is why I was so suspicious of the iPad. The iPad's much-lauded "ease of use" was entirely about how easy it was to use an iPad to *consume* technology. 20/ 2272
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026The iPad remains the single most user-innovation-hostile technology in modern history, a device *designed* to make it impossible to *produce* tech without permission from a remorseless multinational corporation. It'scyberpunk as a *demand*, not a *warning*: memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/w... 21/memex.craphound.comWhy I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 1395
Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I was so thrilled to finally get an iPad, and then spent days finding out that it was designed to keep me from using my own PDFs on the device, which made it useless. It only wanted to allow me to access from its servers (much like One Drive). Took it back and bought a bargain tablet for music. 2262
