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	ysss	2011-06-23 , 04:24
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Originally Posted by Ken-Young

Because the act of making the phone easily hackable for <10% of the buyers will make the phone less robust for the >90% who just want something that works reliably, and who could care less about FOSS.
Do you think the experience of most iPhone owners would be improved if they could download software that allowed them to overclock and mess with the voltages on their processors?

You're preaching to the choir here, son.

In the case of Apple & their iPhones, they could just enable the FOSS friendly mode by labeling it 'developer mode' or whatever. Most of their users wouldn't care about that.

The numbers you've quoted actually gives credence to this theory; iPhone jailbreaking is super easy and it gives LOADS of great capabilities to an iPhone compared to non-jailbroken ones..... yet, the data shows that less than 10% of the users go for it.

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