Comments on: A new-found app-etite for the web http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/07/27/app-etite-for-the-web/ Where media and technology meet Wed, 22 May 2013 09:39:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: txgadfly http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/07/27/app-etite-for-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-389884 txgadfly Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:15:10 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=28310#comment-389884 Reading on electronic devices is to thought as cotton candy is to fudge. Tablets are the modern age equivalent to commercial laden television distributed over subscription only cable. Thin, shallow, popularized thought and information that is privately controlled, very expensive and propagandistic. Computers are useful mainly to help people produce something other than subscription bills. Desktops are capable of that, with application and training and purpose, while tablets and smartphones are not. Reading on electronic devices is to thought as cotton candy is to fudge.

Tablets are the modern age equivalent to commercial laden television distributed over subscription only cable. Thin, shallow, popularized thought and information that is privately controlled, very expensive and propagandistic.

Computers are useful mainly to help people produce something other than subscription bills. Desktops are capable of that, with application and training and purpose, while tablets and smartphones are not.

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