TechCrunch Tablet – OpenFail
Oh TechCrunch peoples – you so crazy. Community-sourced software has yet to give us a compelling and simple interface – don’t think there’s a chance in hell that community-sourced hardware+software will ever be simple, certainly not on the scale of anything Apple does. Democracy will always lose out to the crushing hand of intense investment+real vision+amazingly talented ID/software folks. Just the way it is, without the real pressure of investors and markets and customers these projects are never more than exercises, student projects at best. And the union of interface and hardware by committee yields bloat and baggage – hell they’ve already put so many requirements in the mix it’s becoming hard to see what it will be (must have a mic, must have video, etc.), especially paired with near-arbitrary software+hardware constraints.
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