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Why? For the sole purpose of getting Win8 running on an iPad.

Fair enough.

When the Intel Macs were initial released there was a contest to install Windows XP on it natively (before bootcamp was even announced.) Enough people donated to the prize pool that the winner walked away with 14,000 dollars.

I hadn't heard that. Thanks for the anecdote.

Flip off apple? Really? Apple sell them a device, they own it and do what they like with it. I don't think achieving something non-trivial like getting windows 8 running on an ipad is flipping off apple.

I think it's more thumbing their noses at Apple's propensity to lock down their devices. There's no challenge putting windows on an unlocked device, but putting apple's traditional competitor's os on a product that apple's best and brightest had supposedly locked down must carry some kind of thrill.