No it's the difference between buying a computer and a fucking toaster that screws you with DRM, vendor lock in and a paywall before you can add any value to it.
I'm getting slightly fed up of the number of "check this out" and "do that" things floating around at the moment, servicing the never-ending desire for linkbait and karma-whoring.
I've had nothing but pain from these things; they are simply reasons to procrastinate rather than create.
Capitalism has won when an impoverished, debt-ridden mass of Western consumers mourns the death of a billionnaire who made his fortune by the sweat of dirt-cheap workers provided by a Communist dictatorship.