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> You have the legal right to jailbreak your phone and install whatever you want; neither Apple nor the Feds can stop you. The law isn’t that simple, and even
by sjy 6y ago
> You have the legal right to jailbreak your phone and install whatever you want; neither Apple nor the Feds can stop you.
The law isn’t that simple, and even if it was, Apple does stop most people from jailbreaking most Apple devices most of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act_exemptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#Digital_Mille...
- saagarjha 6y agoIn the United States, the law is that simple.
- sjy 6y agoDid you read the link I posted? > The jailbreaking of smartphones continued to be legal "where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of [lawfully obtained software] applications with computer programs on the telephone handset." However, the U.S. Copyright office refused to extend this exemption to tablets, such as iPads, arguing that the term "tablets" is broad and ill-defined, and an exemption to this class of devices could have unintended side effects.
- saagarjha 6y agoI did, but not very closely. That snippet is out of date and I have updated it–tablets have been exempt since 2015.
- sjy 6y agoDamn, I should have paid attention to that niggling doubt about whether it was wise to cite Wikipedia, but I saw that there were footnotes and I assumed they were still accurate. Thank you for updating the article!