[Selected post on Carnival of Mobilists] Recently, I read about the military considering deploying iPads in the field. Soldiers love their iPods. But then, I guess if Al-Qaeda used a common browser plugin for content that the iPad didn’t support, intelligence would be pretty much up the creek. They’d be the non-universal soldier. Al-Qaeda would have an engima machine. And imagine if they don’t deploy their Chaos apps to the iTunes store. If you have to rely on a device to see web content from combatants and competitors, wouldn’t you want it to be open?

But a better question is: will unfriendlies nicely fall into an appropriate subscription or monetization model? iKid.