Quote Originally Posted by Zvoni View Post
With the exception of jailbreaking an Apple-Device which is, as i understand it, per se not illegal. You're only losing the warranty.
In this case you can use Cydia as your App-Store.
only iPhone is allowed to jailbreak, but iPad isn't (was a lawsuit about in the news last week)..

Yes, Apple has been doing this for some time now (since the first iPhone), and it seems they are trying to do the same with future releases of OSX.
MS will propably get slapped for it even though they have no monopoly on the tablet/phone market.. For me it's also one of the reasons why I'm not going to invest real time/money in developing for Windows RT (let's not forget that it also aplies to the desktopversion (ie Metro-apps)).
Personally I also don't like the fullscreen big layout space wasting kindergarten look of the apps on the desktop, it's ok for use on a tablet/phone, but not for the desktop.. Also let's not forget that switching the app put's it into suspendmode and if windows needs some memory it can just terminate it whenever it wants without the developer getting an event of it (only when it enters suspendmode)..

MS is trying hard to prevent normal users from installing regular windows applications and try to get as many applications into the windowstore which makes them money.. You want to run your own windows metro apps, you'll have to buy a developer license which costs about $99 each year, but you'll be able to publish on any MS-store (also XNA).