I converted to an iphone 13 mini (from the S24 Ultra) after being on Android since the release of the HTC Desire in 2010. I used to install custom roms and tweak everything on all of my Android phones which actually lead me to the iphone because I realized I wanted a phone without all the OE clutter and Google crap. The only clutter on the iphone is icloud which stays out of the way and doesn't annoy me with subscription messages. Also I don't have time to fuck around with modifying my phone. I just want everything to work without user intervention.

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gambiting 6 hours ago | parent [-]

And you can keep doing that, no once forces you to jailbreak.

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ribosometronome 6 hours ago | parent [-]

"No one forces you..." is an interesting line to go down in the comments of an article that focuses on using messaging apps to deliver exploits to a cellphone. It's pretty malware adjacent. Isn't that sort of thing how Jamal Khashoggi and his friends, family, and coworkers were hacked before his murder/execution?

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foltik 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Uhh, what? Clearly nobody is arguing that "arbitrary remote execution is good." Apple could easily satisfy everyone by simply allowing users to unlock their own bootloader.

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NetMageSCW 5 hours ago | parent [-]

How would that help anyone? The unlocked bootloader on the Apple Silicon Macbooks still hasn’t resulted in a truly viable alternative to macOS. The iPhone is much, much harder. And why would carriers trust the result?

	▲	foltik 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’re missing the point. Hackers (in the tinkerer sense) just want to program their own devices, with full access to the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Apple could obviously allow that if they wanted to, in a convenient way that doesn’t increase the attack surface for malware.