I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later

Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by SllX on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:51PM (#22162495)

Cory Doctorow is one of the most consistently principled men you’ll ever meet. File him with Bernie Sanders or Richard Stallman where regardless if you agree with the principles they uphold, there is still a certain admirable quality to the sheer genuine consistency as to who they are and what they represent.

Reading his piece, it is easy to see that Apple hasn’t yet released an iPad Doctorow would like to buy, and I wouldn’t blame him for being who he is. He’s come to market looking for certain qualities in a tablet computer product, and found every iPad ever released to be lacking them. There’s no reason to spend money on something you’ll be unhappy with.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by zepto on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:14PM (#22163329)

Principles are genuinely great - I strongly respect being principled.

Principles that are not re-evaluated in context with a changing human society, are just dogma. I respect that, but I call it what it is.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by filoleg on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:55PM (#22163681)

I like the way you phrased the last paragraph a lot. Thanks for pointing it out, as I have personally been struggling to articulate why some principles are not the same as others in this context, but your comment perfectly cleared it up in my head.

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by wmeredith on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:19PM (#22162747)

Sticking to your principles isn't really in-and-of-itself a virtue. History books are littered with lives destroyed by charismatic and unwaveringly principled monsters. I'd treat it as a curiosity at best.

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