Cory Doctorow et l'IPad
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Cory Doctorow et l'IPad
Cory Doctorow a signé un article sur l'IPad ici.
Son titre : Can You Survive a Benevolent Dictatorship?
Voici le début :
"The first press accounts of the Apple iPad have been long on emotional raves about its beauty and ease of use, but have glossed over its competitive characteristics—or rather, its lack thereof. Some have characterized the iPad as an evolution from flexible-but-complicated computers to simple, elegant appliances. But has there ever been an “appliance” with the kind of competitive control Apple now enjoys over the iPad? The iPad's DRM restrictions mean that Apple has absolute dominion over who can run code on the device—and while that thin shellac of DRM will prove useless at things that matter to publishers, like preventing piracy, it is deadly effective in what matters to Apple: preventing competition.
Maybe the iPad will fizzle. After all, that's what has happened to every other tablet device so far. But if you're contemplating a program to sell your books, stories, or other content into the iPad channel with hopes of it becoming a major piece of your publishing business, you should take a step back and ask how your interests are served by Apple's shackling your readers to its hardware. The publishing world chaos that followed the bankruptcy of Advanced Marketing Group (and subsidiaries like Publishers Group West) showed what can happen when a single distributor locks up too much of the business. Apple isn't just getting big, however; it's also availing itself of a poorly thought-out codicil of copyright law to lock your readers into its platform, limit innovation in the e-book realm, and ultimately reduce the competition to serve your customers. "
Son titre : Can You Survive a Benevolent Dictatorship?
Voici le début :
"The first press accounts of the Apple iPad have been long on emotional raves about its beauty and ease of use, but have glossed over its competitive characteristics—or rather, its lack thereof. Some have characterized the iPad as an evolution from flexible-but-complicated computers to simple, elegant appliances. But has there ever been an “appliance” with the kind of competitive control Apple now enjoys over the iPad? The iPad's DRM restrictions mean that Apple has absolute dominion over who can run code on the device—and while that thin shellac of DRM will prove useless at things that matter to publishers, like preventing piracy, it is deadly effective in what matters to Apple: preventing competition.
Maybe the iPad will fizzle. After all, that's what has happened to every other tablet device so far. But if you're contemplating a program to sell your books, stories, or other content into the iPad channel with hopes of it becoming a major piece of your publishing business, you should take a step back and ask how your interests are served by Apple's shackling your readers to its hardware. The publishing world chaos that followed the bankruptcy of Advanced Marketing Group (and subsidiaries like Publishers Group West) showed what can happen when a single distributor locks up too much of the business. Apple isn't just getting big, however; it's also availing itself of a poorly thought-out codicil of copyright law to lock your readers into its platform, limit innovation in the e-book realm, and ultimately reduce the competition to serve your customers. "
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Mince, j'apprend par cet article de Cory Doctorow qu'il existe une recette du saumon cuit à la machine à laver la vaisselle...
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Juste comme ça, pour le plaisir de la discussion...
Mon Petit n'a pas suivi la campagne de pub autour de l'iPad. Je viens de lui causer du truc et il m'a dit qu'il en voulait un.
(Bon, là, je lui ai expliqué que, vu qu'on était plutôt dans la tranche "pauvre", ben...)
Perso, pour moi, de tels produits (iPhone, iPad...), c'est juste... les produits de notre temps. Ils répondent à nos envies technophiles d'aujourd'hui. Et c'est pour ça que ça marche.
Quand j'ai vu l'iPhone, au départ, me suis dit : trop cher, pas besoin... puis mon père m'en a offert un et... ben... j'adore.
Pour moi, clairement, si j'avais les moyens financiers, je serais accro à ce genre de produits.
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Mon Petit n'a pas suivi la campagne de pub autour de l'iPad. Je viens de lui causer du truc et il m'a dit qu'il en voulait un.
(Bon, là, je lui ai expliqué que, vu qu'on était plutôt dans la tranche "pauvre", ben...)
Perso, pour moi, de tels produits (iPhone, iPad...), c'est juste... les produits de notre temps. Ils répondent à nos envies technophiles d'aujourd'hui. Et c'est pour ça que ça marche.
Quand j'ai vu l'iPhone, au départ, me suis dit : trop cher, pas besoin... puis mon père m'en a offert un et... ben... j'adore.
Pour moi, clairement, si j'avais les moyens financiers, je serais accro à ce genre de produits.
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