Comment Re:Idiotic Summary (Score 1) 325
There's been a working version of Android in the iPhone since April and Apple has done nothing about it. Why then would anyone claim Apple is going to try to stop people from running ChromeOS on iPads? Is there even a shred of evidence to support this bizarre hypothesis? That is exactly the level of openness Apple has consistently shown to be in their "playbook".
Yeah, Apple can't do anything about it on these older devices, because it was an exploit in the bootrom. You can't modify ROM (hence the "O"). There's no way for them to fix the exploit on older devices. What they can, and did do, however, was fix the exploit so that the same hole couldn't be exploited on future devices. One such exploit is commonly referred to as "24kPwn", and it has been patched in the newer devices (3GS and newer).
Is there even a shred of evidence to support this bizarre hypothesis?
There is, the fact that Apple continues to patch these holes in their software to prevent exploits that allow installing other operating systems. If they're so "open", why are they actively combating the issue?
