By that logic apple should say goodbye to you tube, gmail, google maps, google reader and all of their services for the iphone....unless apple plan to roll iMail, iMaps,iReader,iTube.... Something has to give. Unlimited unchecked business expansionism will be a threat to all business

You know it makes kinda of sense if we take Col. Santiago's admonition to heart:

"Information, the first principle of warfare, must form the foundation of all your efforts. Know, of course, thine enemy. But in knowing him do not forget above all to know thyself. The commander who embraces this totality of battle shall win even with inferior force. "
Col. Corazon Santiago
Spartan Battle Manual

Only thing is that under this precept, denying information to your own citizens could be ...you know...waging war upon them

That's called growing up. In the beggining users are just learning to use their devices, fine, but as they master them, there comes the question Apple wants to quash: ...."I wonder if I can do xyz with my phone" where xyz can be anything you can think of. At that point they can be said to loose their innocence and start questioning and becoming more savy. They don't have to be part of Nerdom to feel that something is amiss and that it should be corrected by any means necessary (jailbraking, changing brands, do a more through test run of devices next time they purchase, etc)

an appliance which has a processor, memory, accepts instructions in a computer language, accepts user interaction, creates outputs from inputs and has a display??? ...guess what a computer by that definition is an appliance, and hell will freeze first before I abdicate my powers as a developer to some corporation whith delusions of grandeur. Saying that iDevices are "appliances" is an euphemism and apple-paganda just designed for apple and co to have their own cake and eat it too. just my 2 cents.. sorry to repost as I tought I was already logged in.

i read in their web site about the porting to OS X and windows but can you explain this: "The good news is, you can run KDE on OS X and Windows already, though not as your main Windowing environment." How?