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Originally Posted by kaas
Would you buy a computer which you would need to jailbreak before being able to install third party apps? This is not a true option...
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Shrug.
If you count the iPad as a computer, I have.
It is what it is. Apple run a closed ecosystem, if you want to fiddle with the device you have to take a definite step to do so.
This policy has produces devices that 'just work', don't have inter-app dependencies or conflicts, don't require certain versions of libraries to be installed, etc... You just download an app and run it. This has proven very successful, and they aren't going to change it.
If you think of people who want to fiddle with their devices as 'you', and the public who just want to use the devices as 'them', you have to realise that there are massively more of them than there are of you.
Apple is happy to simply let you go somewhere else, rather than compromise their 'mass-market' appeal.