I'd love to buy a non-locked down tablet. There are a lot of things I kind of half-ass do on my iPad (which is my primary mobile device), but which due to iOS r

I'd love to buy a non-locked down tablet. There are a lot of things I kind of half-ass do on my iPad (which is my primary mobile device), but which due to iOS restrictions don't work very well. For instance, SSH'ing into a machine from it, and then having to check a website. The SSH connection gets closed in 30 seconds. Or, you know, running a JIT language right on the machine. The problem is nobody makes a tablet that works better than the iPad for the things I use the iPad for 90% of the time - which is reading, surfing, checking email, and editing photos. I tried transitioning to a Linux laptop last year. That experiment lasted 3 months. It just didn't fit into a corporate computing environment that is really only set up to support Windows machines. The iPad does fit. Back in the day, when asked about how Apple was going to deal with music piracy, Steve Jobs said they were going to out-compete it. And they did. And that's really the only way they could have succeeded. Jobs had it right. Similarly, if you want FOSS principles to rule in the mobile space, you have to come out with a product that works as well as or better than the non-open ones.