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Because a hardware vendor telling you what you can and can't do with the stuff you own is immoral.



Then don’t buy it? It’s not like Apple is the only vendor.

Kind of hard to have diversity/options if everyone keeps insisting all vendors do everything the same way.


I can buy what I want and also do what I want to what I purcwhased.


People can use their mouths to say at least the fact of flaws the product and services you purchased which acts as an advice to not purchase them

The downvote button on Hacker News doesn't work like a dislike button by the way


Or instead of that, people can engage in the entirely legal act of both purchasing it, and the entirely legal act of hacking it.

Customers have a legal right to do basically anything they want with something that they own.


First sale doctrine says if I buy something, I now completely own it and I can do as I please with it, even if it goes against any of the former owner's wishes or intent.


Apple bossing around its users doesn't increase diversity for anyone, it only artificially reduces its users' options.




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