On: IPad thoughts from Ben Fry (creator of Processing)

[cookiecaper]

Unfortunately I don't think these private individual political boycotts are very effective. If you want to stop Apple, you need to bring something clearly better to the market, and that thing needs to have the underlying structure necessary to reach Apple's core audience and tell them how much better the new thing is and why you don't need Apple's crap anymore.

[middayc → cookiecaper]

Well private individual will also have a hard time bringing something better to the market than apple.

Individual's first strength is to boycott something. And to raise his/shes voice so that the alternative arguments are heard too.

I just called 90% of my techie/geek colleagues pussies over twitter after reading this.

[aw3c2 → middayc]

direct link: http://benfry.com/writing/archives/608

[middayc → aw3c2]

my link was to a twitt calling them pussy :) . I wasn't trying to use my twitt as a relay to the article. I removed link to avoid confusion now.

[rimantas → cookiecaper]

  If you want to stop Apple, you need to bring something
  clearly better to the market,

Oh, please, someone crying how evil Apple is do that. I guess that's the only way for you to understand what real users want, what Apple does, and why it does it.

  is and why you don't need Apple's crap anymore.

I won't need "Apple's crap" when someone will finally get what usability and user experience means.