Ipad == Icrap ?

A lot of people these day's are bashing the Ipad.
The technology of the Ipad is surely a bunch of crap. It is just a way to large Iphone with no phone (and with no multitasking or webcam).
The lack of any form of openness (even with a opensource kernel and browser back-end ) and the complete control over the all applications, you can run on their device, bugs the hell us out of Linux-hippies.

But why the hell should we care?

The average apple-Yuppie just wants a bug-free device that looks pretty (but not flashy :)) and they can use to consume content with (== spend their large paycheck on). That's their right.

Their are a lot of mobile devices out there, a lot of them are quite open: WebOS , Andriod and Symbian are all at least partial FOSS, support Linux as a development platform and foremost allow you to install app's outside their (uncensored) app-store. And of course maemo / meego is just all about developing as a community, hand in hand, singing cumbaya, getting paid with a lot of hugs and kisses (or huQt's and KDEisses ?).

So we really can't complain. Just let Yup's have their Istuff, Bussyness People their BussynessBerry's, regular Joe's and teenagers their NOKIA's, LG, Samsung music-expresso's (or whatever).
We nerd'z and hippie's have a lot to mess arround with, open stuff to make real app's for and closed stuff to hack(berry) or jailbreak.

As long as their is choice their is happiness (and Bussyness) for everyone. I just hope that, unlike on the desktop computers, there will never arise a dominating Operating System.