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> Unfortunately for you, the majority of people must agree and be ok with the walled gardens

I am sure that many people would be fine with being given the voluntary option of turning the switch on, to side load if they choose to do so though.

And you have no significant evidence that if many people were given the option to buy a perfectly identical Iphone, that simply was easier to jailbreak, that people would automatically choose the locked down version.

You have evidence of people prefering iphones over android. But you have no evidence about if someone was offered two otherwise identical Iphone, that people would always choose to not even have the option of switching the jail break switch if it were easy.

The obvious solution would be to give people the option of getting access to the easy to jailbrake iphones and seeing what they would prefer.



That's irrelevant. Apple doesn't offer that option so discussing something that doesn't exist right now makes no sense.


> Apple doesn't offer that option so discussing something that doesn't exist right now makes no sense

It is relevant because I think that a lot of people would want this option, and this would solve the issue by allowing people to voluntarily choose this.


That's pretty much what the whole thread is discussing?




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