The iPod Is Doomed?

iPod Hacks brings us net-veteran Dave Winer's comments on the iPod. Several days ago, I commented on Apple's strongarm tactics to licence the iPod. See? I may not be that paranoid after all. In any case, I care because I like the iPod so much, yet I'm frustrated by the direction they're taking things.

Be inclusive, right. Where it's exclusive, you're hurt - it's not gonna work. That's the Internet. And you might argue, actually, that that has always, even when we didn't call what we were doing the Internet, that really was what we were doing. That was why the Apple II worked. That was why the Lisa did not work. That's why the Mac worked, you know. That's why ultimately the iPod is doomed. Because the iPod only allows a very, very slim amount of participation by the outside world. And, I guess it's a temporary thing.

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