[wayneftw]

Good summary.

As the owner of my device though, I would say the result is that it lets me run authorized code because I am the authority, not Apple.

By jailbreaking, I am asserting my legal authority as the owner.

[NotPavlovsDog]

But that's not the phone's defaults. Anything not approved by the monopoly is unauthorized, making the initial statement correct and the phone a toy from general computing criteria.