&#62;|Answer this: You have somehow given a completely unlocked iPad to a child that will run any unsigned executable.<p>&#62;|How are they going to figure out that they can hack its guts?<p>I have no idae, I think the point is that they can't.<p>&#62;|Now answer this: You have given a child a personal computer running Windows 7 or OS X 10.6.<p>&#62;|How are they going to figure out that they can hack its guts?<p><a href="http://www.python.org/download/" rel="nofollow">http://www.python.org/download/</a><p><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml</a><p><a href="http://openbsd.org/ftp.html" rel="nofollow">http://openbsd.org/ftp.html</a><p><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow">http://gcc.gnu.org/</a><p><a href="http://docs.python.org/tutorial/" rel="nofollow">http://docs.python.org/tutorial/</a><p><a href="http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/</a><p>The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on of things that I can do on my PC that I will not be able to do on an iPad.  If the iPad philosophy becomes the norm (which it probably will) we're boned.<p>Apple has set a precedent here.  They have said "It's okay to release a PC, then totally limit what software can even be installed on it.  It's ours, you're just licensing it and that is fine.".  Other manufacturers are going to take note.