"Do you mean to imply that the iPad should have been strictly backwards compatible with the Desktop MaxOSX or Windows so that all the existing software would work unmodified? Sure, Apple is exercising control over iOS in a way that we haven't seen before, and there are certainly negatives to that, but your examples aren't about things they've chosen to filter out for corporate reasons, unless this is just about flash. And if this is about flash, the evidence so far supports Steve Job's statement that there were technical reasons behind the decision too - http://blog.laptopmag.com/mobi... I guess you could say that they are preventing you from installing a desktop OS on your iPad and that would be true, but as far as I know that wouldn't be a solution even if they allowed it because the desktop OS's aren't suitable for that hardware." - Robin Barooah