[sadgrip]

I don't understand why you can't have the Apple controlled platform you want while I have the freedom to use the hardware I bought however I want. I really don't get why Apple won't let me opt out of this restrictive stuff you like so much on the phone I paid for.

[macintux]

Because Apple knows what we all know: that as soon as you introduce a flag to turn off the nanny state, every company who wants to do something Apple doesn’t allow will tell their users to toggle that flag, and users will do what users do.

Facebook, for example, could immediately take their app off the App Store and tell their users that in order to keep using it, they have to effectively jailbreak themselves.

Whether that’s a good enough reason to disallow the existence of the switch is certainly something we’ll argue about until the end of time.

[sadgrip]

Right but that just sounds like a user having control over their hardware. Who knows maybe some of them will like it.

[deeeeplearning]

So don't buy their hardware? It's not a secret it's locked down so why are you giving them money and then complaining?

[sadgrip]

Yeah I'm not talking about the world I currently live in. I'm talking about what I would like. I'm not going to buy a new iphone of course but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to under different circumstances. Obviously they don't have to care about that.