Its probably not that straightforward for the non-techie crowd; at the end of the day these devices are built for the general population and not just hackers.

Its probably not that straightforward for the non-techie crowd; at the end of the day these devices are built for the general population and not just hackers. And to go on that reasoning, it should be just as easy to jailbreak an iPhone to allow tethering as well. Regardless, my point was not that iPhones have a better feature set than Android (this isn't the case) but rather to outline a few deal breakers that made me migrate back to iOS.