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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
It's lightweight because it doesn't multi-task.
It's closed because the ONLY place you can buy apps is from the Apple store. What do you think "closed" means?
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I 've had it with you being uninformed yet having such conviction in what you say: iOS devices do multitask, and the ipad will do so in early November too catching up with the ipod touch and the iphone. No, it's lightweight because of the miniscule flash arm cpu and gfx, and because the unix iOS was compiled for this particular tech in mind.
Closed means a rubbish buzzword by moron tech pundits that some of the public have been chewing upon thoughtlessly. Re-read Danny's quoted comments about open and closed, and mine. You don't have to buy them from apple, jailbreak and get them from anywhere (along with the viruses and the security leaks). Apple just offers the store front and pretty much any app gets accepted unless it's porn or specifically interferes with something the os sets out to do in a different way.
How is the leading market with hundreds of thousands of apps closed just because instead of the developer selling them from their site they sell them via apple's store? Windows is closed too in as much as you can't install on it something that doesn't run there. Should we also say windows is close because people can't tweak the win kernel or interface to their heart's desire? Apple is the single mainstream tech company who's contributed the most to the open source community in terms of drivers, technologies etc. etc. Almost all mobile browsers (except for the great opera) use apple's open source webkit project based on the kde browser, now how is apple closing and manipulating people there? All this is utter rubbish. Just because apple made the right choice and realized that a highly mobile device should be safeguarded against malicious attacks by means of an approval system for apps and they did it first pundits have jumped all over them because apple thought this first and made tons of fans and money in the process. Finally developers get something for their money and average people don't have to scour the internet to find an app when they are all neatly categorized in the app store, which is a huge success. The average person never pays a dime in the open and fair to developers pc world, yet the very same people pay loads of cash for apple's evil closed system to the same developers.
But having said all that apple has implicitly said, you don't like it jailbreak it and put any crap you like on it. See if that makes any difference. Maybe you can then put in a couple of antiviruses, some antimalware software, firewalls and counter trojan measures, and see how great it will run after that. Heck windows 7 needs merely 500mb minimum of ram to just start up, why not replicate this lovely open model to the mobile platforms too...