I don't get this reasoning. No, you do not "own" a jailbroken iPhone. When you truly own something, you can do what you want with each and every component, in

I don't get this reasoning. No, you do not "own" a jailbroken iPhone. When you truly own something, you can do what you want with each and every component, including its system software, up to and including selling or licensing it as your own property. The very foundations of copyright law will not permit you to do that. Most people would agree that the core ideas behind copyright law are useful, necessary, and just, or at least they'd agree that there is no chance that the law's fundamental basis will change anytime soon. So no, all you've done is make a minor change to the device's operation that allows you to do some things with it that weren't as easy to do before. That's great, but casting it as some kind of moral act of "ownership" makes absolutely no sense. If you didn't build it yourself -- all of it -- you don't "own" it.