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by thaumasiotes 3140 days ago
> especially on iOS, there are _rules_ set out by the manufacturer about what is acceptable in software on the platform, both thematically and functionally.

But iOS is not a phone. Windows could set rules about what was acceptable on the platform, but that wouldn't change what a personal computer was. There are no rules about what's acceptable on an iPhone.

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it's either impossible or near impossible for normal people to change the operating system on an iPhone

so iOS essentially is the phone, since there are no iPhones without it. It's not like you can just pop in an SD card with Linux on it...