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Originally Posted by harryE123
I am sure you are going to like your system, you've convinced yourself already. I can't see how a system that has the biggest by far app store on the planet, which you can also jailbreak and run anything on is closed. I also can't see how a unix os optimized for mobility and touch isn't a "real os" because it's not wintel and has a functioning paradigm from 2010 and not from 1980. But that's how I look at things.
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I call the Windows mobile 6.5 and the soon to be released Wndows phone 7 a partial OS as is Android and the iPhone OS. I am not calling Unix or the Mac a partial OS. I have worked with Unix and Linux at work and like those systems. Jail breaking while now considered legal by the courts will still be for the few and brave. It is closed because Apple decides what goes into the App store. To be fair the new Microsoft phone will have a store that will also be closed. On a Slate that is not a phone and a real computing device I don't want my arms tied. When Apple decides to come out with a Slate that is based on the Mac then they can call it a full computing device.
Certainly there are advantages and disadvantages to a light OS or full OS on these new devices. There are rumored Slate devices that may come out using the new Windows phone 7 OS. I would be critical of these Slate devices with a Win Phone 7 OS in them.