"After all, it's my iPhone, isn't it? Or is it?" The phone hardware is yours once your subsidized contract is up with your carrier or you pay the early termina

"After all, it's my iPhone, isn't it? Or is it?" The phone hardware is yours once your subsidized contract is up with your carrier or you pay the early termination fee. The software is licensed. I don't know of any modern SmartPhone platform that makes juggling operating system versions easy.