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It sounds like the author wants Apple to let you unlock those device's bootloaders so that they can have an elegant depreciation/recycling lifecycle instead of becoming e-waste that can only be salvaged by a proprietary Apple-designed robot.

That would be good enough for me too, I think.

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Seeing as Apple sometimes release patch updates to previous iOS versions (as they've done with iOS 15 just this year) suggests they take security somewhat seriously. Jailbreaking them would have some interesting security implications, especially as it relates to distributing apps via the App Store. The easiest way out of this remains to just buy a new phone and recycle the old one.

They certainly don't have to stop updating people on OFW, I just want the option to unlock the bootloader for my iPhone. Bonus points if I can do it without an iCloud account, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

It's less about jailbreaking and more about ensuring your hardware stays usable even if Apple doesn't think it should be.

Jailbreaking could be allowed with the generalized "boot screen is red now" strategy. The biggest problem is that now you might have a bunch of SE's floating around in the secondary market, _all_ jailbroken just to be supported. But at least that means that in-support devices could still be experimented with, but with an obvious "this has been tampered" with strategy.

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