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My point was Jailbreaking is a final, last ditch step that young aspiring software nerds will probably have if they want to spend their time dicking around with the low level guts of the pad. My bigger point was, they won't bother. Because the capabilities of the device make it so there's not really that much joy to be had in rooting the thing or tinkering with it the way we were "brought up" in the computing world.

If I am an aspiring young hacker I would probably spend more of my time writing apps for the app store or building apps on the web for my friends' iPhones. If I really want to learn about the guts of the thing, I can jailbreak or simply learn about the guts of non-iPad computers.