Great response to Corey Doctorow’s post about why you shouldn’t get an iPad. And as one who started hacking on an Apple IIgs when I was 10, I fully agree with Gruber. Calling the iPad a “closed system” is an oversimplification. His story about the young boy who wrote his first iPad app that’s for sale in the App Store is great.

Those running and screaming away from this platform are free to do so, but there is a huge place for developers and creators who stay and motivate Apple in the right direction. Yes, Apple has a very different model of personal computing in mind than we’ve been used to. There is much work to be done to influence Apple while working within their current constraints. Of course Apple doesn’t make the right decisions all the time. But they make enough of them that I’m sticking around to work with those who are pushing back while still making use of their tools.