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Chrome OS Arrives On the iPad — No, Seriously!
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?"
Then why does every iPod get more difficult to open up?
Irrelevant, it has nothing to do with installing alternate OS's.
More difficult to replace the battery?
Irrelevant, it has nothing to do with installing alternate OS's.
More difficult to jailbreak?
Because jailbreaks rely upon security holes and as systems mature they tend to have fewer of them.
If Apple really didn't care what people did with their devices after they bought them, then why does Apple claim that jailbreaking their devices is _illegal_, even though the courts (despite heavy resistance from Apple) have said it isn't?
Your tense is wrong. Apple CLAIMED it was illegal and then the courts ruled otherwise. But of course Apple also never, sued a single person for jailbreaking an iDevice so if Apple does care, why didn't they take action at least against one of the projects enabling people to do this?