I can live with a locked down device.  I have a friend who may "love" such a feature, given her light use and the fact that her Windows PC has been wiped 4 times to remove malware.<p>But when such a device has the potential to take over the market and eliminate other channels of delivery and "ownership", I become very concerned.  That's what most concerns me about the iPad; that in a year -- or more likely three -- I'll have to have one in order to access content.  And then I'll only have a temporary, non-transferable, revocable-upon-whim license to said content.  Bah.<p>I don't mind paying a reasonable amount.  I do mind being locked in to whatever a monopoly dictates, in terms of cost but also in terms of rights.  And I mind paying over and over and over for the same thing, as the platform changes.<p>And when "big media" so controls the content, what's to prevent the effective revision of history?  What torture pictures?  What treaty details?  (What "Catcher In the Rye"?)<p>I guess some of us will have to resort to taking pictures of our iPads, just to document what was said.  Let's just hope we're still able to do that.<p>(Finally, a personal grudge:  I can tolerate advertisements, but ones involving motion and/or sound COMPLETELY distract me.  Will the content become unusable for people like me, because the delivery channel forces an overwhelming level of distraction?)