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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Now, see, this is what I don't understand. Why is Apple worse than any of the other manufacturers? All these guys are putting wonderful hardware into beautiful little containers with completely ugly restrictions as to how you can use it. If you want to do anything useful with an iPhone, you jailbreak it. If you want to do anything useful with an Android phone, you root it. I don't even know what you do with a Windows phone, but I'm sure you'd have to do something against the manufacturer's wishes. What's the difference?
The apple is a wonderful hardware package....I just can't get by the lack of a memory slot, no quick change of battery and their proprietary connectivity requirements.

For my purposes these are HUGE shortcomings. Having to "jailbreak" to get functionality sucks too.