Comment by AnthonyMouse

> In real life people are looking for escalation of privilege exploits that enable them to exploit iOS to allow for installation of arbitrary software on it. This is what jailbreaking is.

"Unjust imprisonment is fine because you can hire a black ops team to break you out."

So you jailbreak your iPhone. Then an iOS update comes out patching a security vulnerability. If you install it, it removes your jailbreak (or bricks your phone). If you don't, your device has an unpatched security vulnerability.

And at any given time there may not be a jailbreak for the current version of iOS.

This is not a reasonable state of affairs.

> At what point did I ever state any of this or even imply this? I am simply stating that licenses affect all the software we run and places restrictions from the creators of said software on the users of it. This has nothing to do with Apple surveilling its users with its new tech.

The problem is that Apple is imposing license restrictions you don't want. Your response was that all licenses impose restrictions. That ignores the important distinction between restrictions you actually care about and restrictions that don't really affect you.

> Hypothetically it is possible to run whatever software you want on an iPhone, including installing another OS.

Hypothetically you can make your own iPhone out of sand and crude oil. In practice no third party operating systems for iPhones exist because Apple doesn't document their hardware and so there are no drivers for third party operating systems.

> In real life almost no one gives a shit about running arbitrary code on their devices and just use it to get access to the applications that are readily available in official app stores.

In real life most people unjustly imprisoned by a government don't have the wherewithal to break out of prison. That doesn't mean they like being in incarcerated, or having Apple scan their devices.

What it means is that they're structurally bound into a position where their true preferences can't be expressed. Which is the problem.

> You can dislike their software licensing terms and still use your iPhone.

Yes, exactly. But you can't refuse to accept their software licensing terms and still use your iPhone, which means that your choice is between having something imposed on you that you dislike, or your iPhone is a brick because you can't in practice use it under any other terms.