Now change that a little bit. And imagine that you're renting this place. And that's not a police requirement, but home owner requirement who wants to prevent u

Now change that a little bit. And imagine that you're renting this place. And that's not a police requirement, but home owner requirement who wants to prevent undesirable behaviour to protect everyone (or so he says). That would be a better analogy. You don't own your iPhone at all. You own few dozens of grams of steel, glass and silicone. You don't even own parts of it, they're sealed, DRMed and non-functional without proprietary firmware. And of course you hardly own the entire device, as you can't control software which runs on it. Don't pretend that you own a house.