The only real solution to this problem is to completely reverse-engineer the iPhone and iPad down to the level of the ISA and device drivers and load a free ope

The only real solution to this problem is to completely reverse-engineer the iPhone and iPad down to the level of the ISA and device drivers and load a free operating system. And no the ISA is not ARM. It resembles ARM but it contains secret Apple sauce. And there's lots of crypto chip voodoo going on; we'd also have to figure out how to disable all that. In any case the requisite reverse engineering could be done with enough money. It's not a technical problem. But it definitely is a money problem: I don't know how to make a good enough business case for offering IOS device owners a completely alternative OS because most of the muggles just don't care.