While I can see Motorola's reason for "protecting the user experience" by doing this, what really scares me is that Apple could just as easily do this to future iPhones and iPads, also in the guise of "protecting the user experience". And, to be honest, I could see their reason for wanting to do so. The argument against this, which I have put to Apple before, is "What would be the backlash if you did this to your laptop range - made it impossible to install non-Apple approved software" - of course, the backlash would be the death-knell of the company. No-one in their right mind would purchase a laptop with those restrictions (and let's face it - hardware-wise Apple is a closed platform). Why do it with the iPhone and iPad then ?

Bugger the museums, why can't *I* have them ?