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Apple's real innovation is a walled garden that has grown in thickness to the point where it is finally starting to exceed legality. The garden is starting to feel more like a prison.

As with most big corporations, Tim and company have an insatiable appetite for your money --- and they have shown an obsessive willingness to restrict free enterprise itself in defiance of court orders if that is what it takes to get it.

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Always has been a prison. People who wanted to break free had to download dodgy software to "jailbreak" their iPhones and now it's so locked down that even that option is no longer possible.

Unlike IOS itself, most IOS jailbreak tools and package managers are open-source and auditable, as are many of the unsanctioned applications commonly used on jailbroken devices.

The fact you nevertheless refer to this software as "dodgy" really shows how well Apple's messaging works to deter people from using it, even when their main argument against it is security (from what?).

Funny, considering that without Apple's draconian restrictions on user freedoms, IOS security is basically nonexistent even when compared to the low standard set by Android. It is true that the inside of Apple's jail feels safe, but in truth, there is much less keeping attackers out than users in.

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