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Costs: developing and supporting a new version of the OS, introducing confusion into their famously stripped-down product lines, complicating the product's repu
by gabrielroth 17y ago
Costs: developing and supporting a new version of the OS, introducing confusion into their famously stripped-down product lines, complicating the product's reputation as an easy-to-use consumer-oriented device.
Benefits: sales to the tiny minority of people who won't buy an iPad now, but would if they were more 'sandboxy.'
Doesn't sound 'very tasty' to me.
- eru 17y agoThey could just make it easy to hack open, to achieve nearly the same effect without having to support it officially.
- ghshephard 17y agoDon't they already do this with the iPhone. :-)