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I understand it is not ideal, but I think you're still looking at this through the lens of today. What if Apple is aiming for a tomorrow when you won't need to

I understand it is not ideal, but I think you're still looking at this through the lens of today. What if Apple is aiming for a tomorrow when you won't need to do such things as gain root access or manage the allocation of memory. Clearly, they don't want you sideloading because it doesn't fit their business model. Theoretically, if they had a version of XCode on iOS and you could load your programs you are developing somehow, they could possibly be getting around the limitations you list above.

wolfgke 10y ago
> What if Apple is aiming for a tomorrow when you won't need to do such things as gain root access or manage the allocation of memory. How do you come to the idea that in the future this will not be necessary anymore? My personal (but this is perhaps biased by my personal values) thoughts on this is such properties will become much more important in the future than they are now. Why this? A lot of the advantages Moore's law gave in the past have ended. So it will become much more important in the future to apply more "clever low level hacks" (e.g. use special units of the CPU) to get more speed (allocation of (executable) memory is one such trick). Also Snowden's revelations have shown that it is very dangerous not to have complete control of the device anymore (at least in Germany these lead to a deep distrust in cloud/SaaS offers for many companies, since these companies fear industrial spying). For this having root access is essential (though not sufficient, since there might be other backdoors).