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by cliffu 4666 days ago
I'll be excited about an iPhone as soon as I am able to sideload an app, install a white/blacklist. I'd be quite excited if I were also allowed to run arbitrary apps in the background (listening to sockets even when not VoIP), and add arbitrary interactive views to the Notification Center.

A plastic colored body does not appeal to me in the least.

1 comments

Congratulations, you are not the target market! You may now choose from the many available models of android and windows phones instead of making impotent comments on social networks. :)
No, I like making comments about it on social networks. If I get even one person on board with freedom it's a win. If I get enough people on board that Apple feels pressure and I can use unjailbroken iOS without these restrictions that would be great, I actually like iOS when it's jailbroken. I know that's a pipe dream but whatever.
Inform enough people and Apple will be forced to open up or go out of business, with either being an acceptable option. A couple of more years the way the market is going and they're going to be driven to irrelevance, which is also acceptable.