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If you own your phone in the first place, why did you have to break it out of jail?
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
If you own your phone in the first place, why did you have to break it out of jail?
- ribosometronome 4y agoBecause you intentionally opted to spend more on a locked down device.
- moffkalast 4y agoTapping a button in settings a few times to get dev mode is not cool enough for Apple is it?
- mrtksn 4y agoThat’s just a name for adding functionality that Apple did not build in, no actual jails involved.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoYeah duh no real jail involved. That misses my point. Its called jailbreaking for a reason. Out the box its metaphorically in jail. Its restricted and limited in a bunch of ways that you have to break it out of. You paid to own it, Apple puts in rules as if you're renting it. It doesn't matter that you can hack it. You shouldn't have to hack your own hardware.
- mrtksn 4y agoApple made it work in a certain way and it’s clear about it, if you want it to work in a different way I don’t think Apple obligated in helping you. If you’re surprised that they don’t support software installation beyond the AppStore, you can modify your device and make it do that(jailbreak), you can return your device or sell it. It’s ridiculous to say expect that Apple is obligated in helping you use the device in ways not designed to work. Would you expect Apple also to make it possible to run PlayStation games?
- IIAOPSW 4y agoWould you buy a car that only goes on Ford^TM approved roads and only takes Ffuel from Ford approved stations? Sorry, you can't drive here. That's a GM road. No, of course not. We all know that the ability to run on unapproved roads isn't a "feature", but rather the inability to run on an unapproved road is an anti-feature that they built in the first place. For that matter, the inability to run playstation games outside a playstation is also an anti-feature which had to be engineered by Sony. For that matter, do you buy razors that only fit Gillette approved blade designs? So why restrictions on computing devices then? I will give credit where its due in that Apple is upfront about the nature of the walled garden. Who knows, maybe there really is a market for cars that only go to approved places.
- mrtksn 4y agoI guess I wouldn't buy Ford if their fueling features don't meet my expectations.
- 9dev 4y agoWell, lots of people seem to like using Apple products in the way Apple intended to - adhering to your example, driving on the vast Ford network that covers most of the world and gets ford drivers pretty much everywhere.
- simfree 4y ago
- chaostheory 4y agoYou’re missing the larger point. If people didn’t like it, they wouldn’t buy it. How you feel about it is irrelevant.