I remember back in the day when people would “Jailbreak” iPhones, but never really picked up on what they were doing other than that it let them do stuff that those of us with “non-jailbroken” iPhones couldn’t do.

Are they just booting another OS, e.g. android? Also: why haven’t I heard of it in a while? Is it not possible on newer iPhones?

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I guess it’s about the difference audiences. Developers are a decent part of Apple’s MacBook customer base and without root access they’re not even gonna look in your product’s general direction.

    • nittiyh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely right! But large tech companies have been on a trend of getting a little too greedy and daring, lately. Let’s hope they know better.

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I would agree with this. I think the canary in that particular coal mine would be Apple working to kill off Homebrew or Macports. So far, I haven’t seen any indication that this is on the radar.

      Fi used to work desktop support, and the “average user” probably has no idea what “root access” even means. I’ve seriously had someone point to my open iTerm window and ask what I was hacking. Always remember what George Carlin said about the average person.