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Chrome OS Arrives On the iPad — No, Seriously!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

Thinkcloud writes "A user named Hexxeh has posted a video online of the iPad running Google's upcoming Chrome OS. Hexxeh was able to put Chrome OS on an iPad because the open source code for the operating system is available in its Chromium state, but it's not necessarily true that Apple will allow iPads to run other operating systems going forward. That's typically not a level of openness found in the Apple playbook. Nevertheless, it's worth considering what it might mean to have a robust OS like Apple's on the same tablet as one that runs a cutting-edge operating system like Chrome OS. Why wouldn't users love that?"

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  1. go direct to the source luke by m1ndrape · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://blog.hexxeh.net/

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    Donald Ray Moore Jr. (mindrape)
    Suspected Terrorist
  2. Re:Idiotic Summary by Theaetetus · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...Yet you trust a company which basically says "Hey, we might brick your phone just to spite you"

    Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed. Apple plans to release the next iPhone software update, containing many new features including the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (www.itunes.com), later this week. Apple strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs on their iPhones. Users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty. The permanent inability to use an iPhone due to installing unlocking software is not covered under the iPhone's warranty.

    You read it that way, I read it as "hey, if you're going to install new firmware and then also install our firmware updater, we aren't responsible if it screws something up. I mean, we haven't even seen your code... how can we possibly know ahead of time if our updater won't wipe some important part of the memory of your homebrew firmware? Look, if you're going to modify the guts of your phone, it's all your responsibility if it fails. Don't come crying to us."

    At a basic level, if you jailbroke your phone, then why would you also install an iOS update? That'd be like installing OSX on a computer and then running a Win7 security update. It could do nothing, or it could wipe out the kernel.

  3. Re:Idiotic Summary by PipsqueakOnAP133 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Come on, that's outright dishonest. They have outright threatened to cripple devices that were unlocked in the past (see, for example, here),

    Wait wait, now THAT's outright dishonest.

    Specifically, Apple didn't threaten to cripple devices.
    Apple posted a warning that they found out that the baseband update code is broken on unlocked devices and doesn't function correctly.

    In other words, Apple didn't cripple your device, the unlockers screwed up.
    Says who? Says people who worked on the unlocks in the first place.

    http://code.google.com/p/iphone-elite/wiki/iPhoneBrick