Here are two great rumors that taste great together: a new tablet from Apple and a new tablet for Windows.
Okay, yeah. So what, right? We all know this. We won’t shut up about it.
Now, in conversations that followed my last post about the Apple tablet, I admitted that I’ve never wanted to jailbreak any of my iPhones but I might be interested in jailbreaking the Apple tablet that I will inevitably get.
However, what if the tablet’s OS is just crap? What if it does turn out just to be a glorified iPod Touch with a focus on movies and eBooks? Am I going to want it then? Maybe some shiny HP tablet running Windows 7 might be more attractive to me for what I want to do (sure, I’ll read books on it but movies? only if I’m on a plane). But why should that be the only option?
I wonder how hard it will be to turn one of the new PC tablets into a Hackintosh? A Hackintablet, if you will (even if you won’t). That may be a better option for some people who are disappointed with Apple’s offering but don’t want to get their precious little hands mussed up with some Windows 7 action. I’d be fine with Windows 7, honestly; I use it for work every day and I maintain that it is the best consumer OS that Microsoft has ever released. It makes me excited for Windows 8 which I imagine will be a further refinement of what they already have (in other words, I expect Windows 8 to be the next Windows XP). But, I’m drunkenly stumbling off the path here.
Personally, I’ve always been kind of against jailbreaking. I don’t see how it’s our ‘right’ to be able to install whatever we want on hardware (outside of laptops and desktops, of course). But my opinion was mainly out of spite for all of the whiners who get all indignant when they can’t get Linux to install on their electric toothbrush or whatever. Trust me, a lot of my opinions are based straight out of spite. Spite gets me through life. Spite is fuel. But spite don’t make right. And even though I don’t necessarily agree with jailbreaking, I really appreciate the work the guys who produce jailbreaking software do. That’s some serious hacking and my hat’s off to ‘em. And now jailbreaking or building a Hackintablet seems more acceptable to me now that I might have a personal use for it.
And even if I don’t do it myself, I’d be surprised if someone doesn’t hack the crap out of Apple’s tablet and I’d be surprised if someone else doesn’t shoehorn OS X onto a PC tablet. Especially since it was my idea first. And it was my idea. Don’t contest. Give credit where credit’s due:
To me. THAT’S RIGHT. TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!