It’s getting to be that a day doesn’t go by without an incredibly stupid article regarding Apple’s iPad. Today’s piece of stunning ineptitude comes from a publication that should know better: FT.com. Jonathan Zittrain writes in A fight over freedom at Apple’s core (did you see what he did there?) the following doozy:

Users no longer own or control the apps they run – they merely rent them minute by minute.

This is, of course, entirely accurate, unless you’re some kind of anal control freak who demands that accuracy be equated with ‘the truth’ and ‘facts’.

Zittrain also sets off the blah-blah-blah alarm regarding Apple being evil and closed, citing the wonderful ‘open’ nature of Android. Anybody can do anything with Google, apparently, because it’s not remotely evil and its devices are open, smell of roses and are made of unicorn tears. Really. And if you believe that, or that in the long run Google’s supposedly ‘open’ stance will be any better for developers and end users than Apple’s ‘closed’ one, I have a bridge to sell you.