If the iPad is as restrictive as an iPhone it will fail!

[Astro8973]

The average consumer does not care about being locked down. As long as they can play games and have fart apps, it will not fail.

 

[designgeek]

If I understand correctly, someone would have to write a rosetta like program to install OS X since it's not optimized for the ARM architecture. That would be a neat hack though.

 

[lordhamster]

If I understand correctly, someone would have to write a rosetta like program to install OS X since it's not optimized for the ARM architecture. That would be a neat hack though.

I'm sure within the first month somebody somewhere will be showing off how they managed to run some version of Linux on it or Android.

 

[admanimal]

I'm sure within the first month somebody somewhere will be showing off how they managed to run some version of Linux on it or Android.

Running Linux or Android on it is a totally different challenge than running OS X. ARM versions of Linux and Android already exist, which is not the case for OS X (or any of its apps), so someone would have to write software to emulate an x86 CPU or translate the x86 instructions to ARM.