Wow... you are completely insane. Do you not know Microsoft's very sketchy history? Where were you picketing Microsoft for their developer policies over the decades? Do you have any idea how much it cost to develop for and deploy on various consumer computing platforms like Xbox, Nintendo Wii, Playstation, Windows, etc? Have ever sold any software through a publisher? Obviously not.
You do realize that iOS already runs on x86, right? The simulator that is provided with Xcode is running iOS for x86... and the binary of the app tested in the simulator is an x86 binary, built for iOS.
Cut the size of government and its power and you cut the opportunity for mischief and mayhem.
If only it were that simple. If the functions that a particular government organization is performing are cut and then are merely transferred to private enterprise, then the opportunity for mischief and mayhem remain, at best, the same. In addition, private enterprise is by many metrics less transparent, less accountable, and more profit driven than government. If that function was for the public good, then going private enterprise means less accountability and more mischief and mayhem... but at least with less transparency, you and I might know less about it.
I am not advocating bigger government or smaller government. In the end, there are no easy solutions which makes public policy and the business of government very boring and unsuited to 30 second soundbites. Our system is still very flawed and the way our politicians play the game these days just makes it worse. But of course, it is the people that lets this happen and the people in the end have to decide as collective to fix it.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
