The photo you see below is of?Russell Kirsch (left) with Joel Runyon (right). Joel Runyon started the site ImpossibleHQ.com to write about the cool or exciting things in his life. You can learn more Russel Kirsch here:?http://goo.gl/prwGQ
Russell A. Kirsch (1929) led a team of colleagues in creating America?s first internally programmable computer, the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC), capable of scanning digital images in 1957. SEAC produced a photograph of Kirsch?s three month old son in a mere 176 pixels, measuring 5x5cm. Because of this breakthrough, satellite imaging, CAT scans, bar codes, and desktop publishing were made possible
Mr. Kirsch is a giant in the history of modern general computing, to say the least. It?s really no surprise to me that he?s not pleased with the state of mobile computing today. From Joel Runyon?s blog ( http://goo.gl/DHzZY?):
I?ve been against Macintosh company lately. They?re trying to get everyone to use iPads and when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.
That?s the problem with a lot of people. he continued, they don?t try to do stuff that?s never been done before, so they never do anything, but if they try to do it, they find out there?s lots of things they can do that have never been done before.
That, in a nutshell, expresses clearly why I love Android and am not much of a fan of Apple?s iOS these days. It?s not that I don?t think Apple makes great products. They certainly do. But there are two things about Apple?s iOS that goes against everything I care about in general computing:
1. Apple?s iOS locks almost all users into consumption technology.?It?s not that the underlying system of iOS isn?t capable of doing all types of tasks. It does, and Apple is even moving their Mac OS X toward being more like iOS. But Apple intentionally locks the users of their systems out of having any control, and keeps them away from being able to use the systems in new ways. If Apple doesn?t think of it, they don?t want anyone else doing it (with ?their? technology).
2. When regular users don?t have full control over electronic, then only two groups have an advantage? the manufacturers of electronics and hackers. I?m not big on making the argument on having full control just to have it. That?s always been an empty justification in my eyes. However, innovation comes from people being able to fiddle with things, to move them around and make the tools they use do stuff that maybe wasn?t intended. The average user of a given tool isn?t going to be able to do that if the user is locked out of being able to fiddle around. Considering how much people are paying to these large manufacturers of the tools, I?d say giving people full access to the tools they buy is the least that could be done.
To anyone who might think I dislike Apple for what they contribute to computing: you?re very wrong. I begrudge Apple for what they?re taking away from computing, and it seems that people like Russell Kirsch feel that way as well. Kirsch looked at what computers did and made them do something different. He made them do something new. It seems like Mr. Kirsch wants everyone else to have access to that world as well. I, like Kirsch, feel that Apple is keeping more people out of that world than they should.
Thanks to +Michael Chui?for the original post (?http://goo.gl/vb8Gt) that inspired this one.
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