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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 13, 2011 @11:53AM from the heard-this-story-before dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wikipedia's chief says models such as the App Store on the iPad are not only a dangerous chokepoint to internet freedom, but that this is a real and immediate problem that's of more concern than the overblown what if's of the net neutrality debate."

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Re:Ugh (Score:5, Informative)

by icebraining ( 1313345 ) writes: on Thursday January 13, 2011 @12:14PM (#34862968) Homepage

http://html5demos.com/offlineapp [html5demos.com]

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Re:Ugh (Score:2, Informative)

by Movi ( 1005625 ) writes: on Thursday January 13, 2011 @01:36PM (#34864416)

The GP is a little wrong. 95% of android handset require no hacking whatsoever to sideload apps. Preferences -> Applications -> Allow Unknown Sources -> Done.
AFAIK only AT&T blocks this on their android handsets. But they deserve to die a slow death anyway.

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