Scripting News: Geek love

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Geek love

Sometimes people fall in love with geek toys for reasons they can't express.

It could be that they love iPod because it's a hard drive that you can put massive quantities of free music on and take with you everywhere. It may have nothing to do with the cool UI (which I don't think is really all that cool).

And Apple TV may be fun for geeks who have never had a computer hooked up to a HD TV, while its fatal flaw is --> no BitTorrent content, no Netflix content, just what Apple says you should have.

It may solve the "problem" with the iPod that was really core to why people loved the iPod.

That's just a theory, I don't have an Apple TV, but I do have a Mac Mini connected to my TV and on the net and I think that's the coolest toy ever, even after almost six months.

PS: I wrote this as a series of Twitter tweets.

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:36 PM

~About the Author~

Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

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