Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
RAM eats power, which is one reason not to go overboard.

As far as I know Apple doesn't want Java applications on their platform either.

The "control" issue probably relates to the number of Sarah Palins out there buying little kids iPhones. There were a ton of porn applications and such showing up and it hurt the marketing of the iPhone. Baby can't eat steak so we all get pablum.
Really? I think it's more to do with cost. They're not using regular RAM. Aren't they using like 256 megs of L2 Cache or something right next to their CPU?

Power is most consumed by:
1) Fans to cool the system
2) Harddisk
3) Bunch of useless background apps consuming CPU power.

Which is why my $1,000 ASUS laptop is great for gaming, but has a 2 hour battery life (not even enough for more than one movie on an airplane) even with power saver on.