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What's really retarding the iPad? Apple's App Store

What’s really retarding the iPad? Apple’s App Store

What’s really retarding the iPad? Apple’s App Store, Lukas Mathis writes for Ignore the Code. No third-party developer is going to make the investment in time and money into an iPad killer app when Apple can, on a whim, decide not to carry that app in their App Store.

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Apple’s App Store

The thing that truly hurts the iPad is the App Store.

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The problem with winking to take a picture, or looking at something to select it, or nodding to approve, is that these gestures already have existing, established meaning. Overloading existing behavior with new semantics is bound to create problems.

— Lukas Mathis, Overloading Behavior

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Crappy Computers

This makes perfect sense. >This is a sentiment you often hear from people: casual users only need «entry-level» devices. Even casual users themselves perpetuate it: «Oh, I’m not doing much on my computer, so I always just go with the cheapest option.» And then they buy a horrid, underpowered netbook, find out that it has a tiny screen, is incredibly slow, the keyboard sucks, and they either never actually use it, or eventually come to the conclusion that they just hate computers. >In reality, it’s exactly backwards: proficient users can deal with a crappy computer, but casual users need as good a computer as possible. Via [Ignore the Code](http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2012/11/04/crappy_computers/).

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This is a sentiment you often hear from people: casual users only need "entry-level" performance. Even casual users themselves perpetuate it: "Oh, I’m not doing much on my computer, so I always just go with the cheapest option." And then they buy a horrid, underpowered netbook, find out that it has a tiny screen, is incredibly slow, the keyboard sucks, and they either never actually use it, or eventually come to the conclusion that they just hate computers. In reality, it’s exactly backwards: proficient users can deal with a crappy computer, but casual users need as good a computer as possible.

Lukas Mathis, "Crappy Computers"