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arjie | on: Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
You can do whatever you want with what you own. And I want this restricted device. So you go be the market for yours and I’ll be the market for mine. I don’t understand what the problem is here. There are no shortage of phones on the market - many of them entirely rootable. It seems like you’re upset I want to buy an EV because you want to put gas in your car. Just go buy the gas car. No one is stopping you here (well except the EU I suppose haha).
gambiting | parent
>> And I want this restricted device >>I don’t understand what the problem is here.

That's the problem. There should be no restricted devices at all, not in the way currently presented by Apple and others.

>>It seems like you’re upset I want to buy an EV because you want to put gas in your car.

More like, you want to buy a car that's locked to only charging at Apple provided charging stations. I say every car sold should be able to charge anywhere from any station. But we're stretching the comparison thin.

erelong | root | parent
I share your sentiments but I wonder realistically how far we are from AI just "jailbreaking all the things", rendering the conversation moot

Like they can try to lock some things down, and some of those barriers we may not be able to get around, but how much of enough of them will we be able to circumvent?

Ideally this would probably not affect newer hardened devices but could unlock a bunch of older otherwise "unusable" hardware that functionally is "e-waste" currently