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That's interesting, indeed-- it is unfortunate that developers have no ability to circumvent these restrictions even for local development.

It makes owning such a device even more baffling, sounds incredibly useless to me. I didn't know iOS was such a trash fire.

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Really, you can't understand why anyone would buy a device that you can't easily run a shell on?

Can you run bash on your dishwasher?

I hand wash my dishes.

But yes-- I certainly do expect to be able to run a shell on any computer that I own. It's nice to hear that iOS devices are just another appliance for the affluent majority.

Terrible example as most dishwashers don’t run a Unix-like operating system. Spin that example to something running an embedded Linux OS (like my Samsung TV) and the answer is yes (but not in a factory supported way).

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