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Comment by cowlevel

9 hours ago

Nobody is stopping you from taking apart your iPhone and using AI to reverse engineer it and run custom software. Apple has made it as difficult as they can, but they haven't made it illegal, and they haven't even made it impossible, so from the law's perspective there is nothing to fix here. The law just sees yet another thing that nobody's bothered to do yet. The law wouldn't pass a regulation requiring Apple to make it easier to reverse engineer an iPhone any sooner than it would pass a regulation requiring Coca-Cola to make it easier to reverse engineer their formula.

Note that earlier this year, a YouTuber did reverse engineer the Coca-Cola formula because nothing was actually stopping someone from doing it, all this time. You could be that guy for iPhones.