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Danny O’Brien sums up all the talk about the closed nature of the iPad/iPhone/iPod operating system perfectly:

But the truth is, the cyclical fight against locked-in systems has been the recurring theme of computing since the mainframes.

This entry was posted in blurb and tagged closed, computers, cracking, hacking, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, locked-in, open on 1st February 2010 by admin.

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