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My guess is that Apple will say: “You’re free to root it and do what you want, but we don’t cover that with a warranty.” In that sense, you do own an Apple pro
by christophilus 5y ago
My guess is that Apple will say: “You’re free to root it and do what you want, but we don’t cover that with a warranty.”
In that sense, you do own an Apple product. But if you want to stay in their nice little walled garden, that ownership is more like buying a house that comes with a benevolent dictatorship HSA.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoApple will never publicly admit to the possibility of rooting their devices, especially not to allow bypassing DRM: they'd lose all their friends in Hollywood overnight.
- iso1210 5y agoDisney is an enormous company, owning pretty much everything in the media world, dwarfing other hollywood companies. It has a Market Cap of $320b, way bigger than Sony, Time Warner, Viacom and MGM put together. Apple on the other hand is worth about 7 times as much as Disney.
- hermitdev 5y agoYes, but a non-insignificant portion of their revenue comes from content from third-party media companies. They very much have an incentive to play ball with the likes of Disney & Sony, despite having the upper hand in terms of market cap.
- iso1210 5y agoOr they could buy Disney and a couple of others