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Comment by alerighi

16 hours ago

They do that now because they care about your security, but to make it difficult to modify (jailbreak) your own devices to run your own software that is not approved by Apple.

What they do is against your interests, for them to keep the monopoly on the App Store.

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EasyMark  15 hours ago

It can be both things, security and user lock in, those are orthogonal goals.

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