scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> the Xbox360 lets you write programs for it using C# and XNA

  You make it sound like you cannot write your own programs for the iPhone
or iPad. You can (although in this case it has to be with Objective-C++).

> Anyway, if I did buy an XBox360 I would expect it to do certain things as 
> standard, like let me connect a memory stick and listen to the music on it 
> or look at the photos and videos on it.

  Well, the iPhone is more like an iPod with respect to music (it was even
initially marketed as such, iow. smartphone+iPod) rather than a general-use
portable computer. At first you couldn't even write software for it (but
that changed later).

  I suppose the iPad continues the same ideology of being a tight sandbox
which is safe to use and hard to mess up (unlike a laptop, which is simply
a PC/Mac, and which is very easy to mess up).

  An iPhone/iPad is not much different from buying a PSP or Nintendo DS.
Those are not even intended to be laptops either.

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