iPad is the first computing device in history that essentially takes away any user capability to tinker with its machine, forbids installing any software that Apple decides it shouldn't be running on it, including basic things like alternative browsers (as you know, Chrome on iOS is only a reskin of the included WebKit) or installing a previous OSes (which means my one year old iPad 3 became a slow but beautiful paperweight after updating to iOS 7), you can't develop apps for it without paying Apple 100€/year (even if you don't plan to distribute them), etc. But if you think that's okay because that means less technical support for friends, go ahead.
> forbids installing any software that Apple decides it shouldn't be running on it
Weird, I got a developer license and was building and installing random github projects on my iPad without any fuss. If you can't afford the license, go in on it with 100 of your closest friends and it's only a buck.
> But if you think that's okay because that means less technical support for friends, go ahead.
I'd happily pay 100 bucks not to do tech support anymore. I sent my mother my iPad 2 a year ago and haven't heard a peep from her about computing problems since.
So you don't see any issue with paying Apple _again_ to grant you the right to install what you want in the device you already paid for (and I'm not talking about distributing it in the App Store). Well, we can agree to disagree.
It's not that I don't see any issue--I do and it's actually a selling point. The best security in the game comes at a price that I, and millions of other satisfied customers, are more than willing to pay. The only people who complain about Apple's system are people who don't mind doing free sysadmin labor on a device that they already paid for.
