Jailbrake my robot
There’s been a lot of debating around the whole locked in/open mobile phone experience in recent years; especially with the addition of the iPhone to the market, so I thought I’d wade in with my own opinion. As we all know; every opinion on the Internet is worth reading and full of merit.
In case your reading this and don’t what I mean by locked in or open, the difference is fairly simple. A locked in system (like the iPhone) prevents unauthorised use of the phone in question. What is unauthorised? Well unauthorised is basically whatever the manufacturer deems unauthorised. Sometimes this can be useful restrictions that prevent oblivious users putting malicious code on their phone that could render it unusable, or worse, infect other phones. The downside however, is that manufacturers invariably don’t stop with the useful restrictions, and soon move on to abritrary useless restrictions that do nothing but make the manufacturer more money while hampering the user experience.
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