These bitter, narrow-minded opinions about the iPad's closed nature are boring to no end. The closed nature of any machine or videogame console has never affec

These bitter, narrow-minded opinions about the iPad's closed nature are boring to no end. The closed nature of any machine or videogame console has never affected people from hacking it and developing for it to make it do what they want; the best example would be vast amount of "homebrew" software available for every damned videogame console from SEGA, Nintendo, Sony and others, that each, with time, has been broken wide open, documented, and made available for developing - and a system just doesn't get more closed than a videogame console.