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Sure does. Luckily the availability of that program has yet to damage my N900. This can probably be attributed to my good judgment, but not everyone can be assumed to be capable of making good decisions when there are bad options available. A good thing Apple takes care of their mobile phone. Or is it the customer's phone? I'm getting confused.

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A lot of the comments here are actually pretty disturbing to me. As if the general population assumes that Apple should be the caretakers of how customer's use their own phones, and that the general population isn't capable enough to make their own decisions regarding their own property. Very 1984 vibe to it.

> As if [...] Apple should be the caretakers of how customer's use their own phones

This is Apple's modus operandi with the iPhone, is it not?

To be fair, I have no objection to Apple in this case. I was simply surprised at how fully Apple customers have embraced the "protect us from ourselves" mentality.

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