2010-04-03
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styledeficit on the iPad.
My take? The publishers want it to be CD-ROMs. They want it to save their businesses. It might, but I wouldn’t bet on it, and anyway, that’s not what’s interesting. What everyone else does - the everyone else that built so much of the content on the web that we care about daily - that’s interesting.
Is it closed? It’s more closed than an Apple ][, but then so is pretty much every computer of the last thirty years. I’m sure there were people in the 1980s who would have argued you can’t be creative with a mouse.
Will a proprietary format win? Well, maybe if you count Objective C, and maybe for digital magazines, but the web is powerfully corrosive.
Am I worried? No. I’m sort of excited. But it’ll take a while for us to really see what happens.
