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From: Steve Hix on 20 Mar 2010 17:32
In article
<6f7ad163-4718-4610-a606-927e50f6dbd0(a)z35g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
commiebastard <oraclmaster(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2:16�pm, "OP" <Otto.Phil...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The �iPad runs OSX right?
> > Therefore it should run SL.
>
> Before you get pounced on by the cult of Mac on this board, the short
> answer is no. It's not a Leopard install, but a special iPad OS like
> the iPhone OS not a Leopard install.

And OS X at its very basic foundation.
From: Fred Moore on 21 Mar 2010 15:11
In article <7i8pn.18344$yk1.17963(a)newsfe20.iad>,
"OP" <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> The iPad runs OSX right?
> Therefore it should run SL.

<sigh> More irrefutable DozeTroll logic.
From: Tim Murray on 21 Mar 2010 16:28
OP wrote:
>> why would anyone want snow leopard on an ipad? it's not a mac.
>
> Why not, it's the latest of OSX.

And zara is wrong again.

From: Fa-groon on 21 Mar 2010 19:24
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:28:20 -0700, Tim Murray wrote
(in article <0001HW.C7CBF9A40000260CB02AC9BF(a)nntp.charter.net>):

> OP wrote:
>>> why would anyone want snow leopard on an ipad? it's not a mac.
>>
>> Why not, it's the latest of OSX.
>
> And zara is wrong again.
>

Still, always, forever wrong.

From: nospam on 22 Mar 2010 01:47
In article <80oduaFkocU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Jeffrey Goldberg
<nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:

> >> This is Apple's "wall in the customers and drive them to the iTunes/Apps
> >> stores" approach.
> >
> > and when microsoft does exactly the same thing, nobody seems to care.
> > why is that?
>
> MS does not do this. MS does not force you to purchase all your
> software for their system from their store.

they are for windows phone 7.

<http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/15/confirmed-marketplace-will-be-the-only-
way-to-get-apps-on-windo/>

...the only official way to get apps on a Windows Phone 7 Series
device will be to download them from the just-detailed Windows Phone
Marketplace. That means developers will have to abide by Microsoft's
technical and content guidelines in order to make it in, with the
very real possibility of rejection -- sound familiar?

> The question is whether the benefits of Apple's walled garden outweigh
> the problems for most consumers. Clearly there will be some consumers
> who see it as not a real problem for them. There will be other
> consumers who will not purchase iPads for exactly this reason.

true, and so far, it doesn't seem to be adversely affecting anything.

> This is certainly an concern that goes into my decision to purchase an
> iPad. There are things about it that I really like and see that I would
> definitely use (that I can't get out of a netbook). But this walled
> garden business is something that I don't like. And in the end it may
> deter me from purchasing the thing.

what do you want to do that you can't do because of a walled garden?
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