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If they allowed something similar on iphones, I'd switch to an iPhone the day an alternate os worked well enough for daily use.

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why? In my mind the appeal of the iPhone is iOS. The hardware is nice, but so is the hardware of certain Android phones.

I think it would be nice if we could run unsigned apps on iOS (in the US), but booting your own OS on an iPhone is a whole different story

I think iPhone hardware is better for the price on the used market. (I refuse to buy new phones. They're too locked down and shitty to warrant spending that much.)

> I think it would be nice if we could run unsigned apps on iOS

Apple enforces those restrictions via the permanently locked bootloader. The main benefit of unlocking the bootloader on an iPhone would be to run a modified version of iOS that allows for the installation of unsigned apps. Apple wouldn't like it and might even get litigious over it, but still.

> (in the US)

Apps intended for release onto alternative app stores in the EU, Japan, and Brazil still need to be approved and signed by Apple. These laws were nearly useless.

I'd run ios if I could build my own apps for it without begging for Apple's approval to use my own device.

Really, all I want from a phone is to be able to run Linux/xfce on it.

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