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Speaking of security.. tell us, what is involved in "jailbreaking" an iphone?

you take some action, and get "root" access to the OS which allows things like bypassing the anti-theft mechanism?

Do you remember the days when all you had to do was go to a website and now your iphone was "rooted"

Microsoft should have done more to limit "backwards compatibility" as it has stung them over and over again.

Apple has a tendency of intentionally breaking things (sorry, your mac isn't supported on this version of MacOS. Apply a very small patch is suddenly is supported?).

Pretending that Microsofts legacy support created security issues while Apple doesn't have security problems on its own is misleading.




I never said that Apple didn’t have any security issues. But by definition if you have a smaller attack area, you have less chances of security vulnerabilities. You don’t have to worry about an old forgotten part of the code that was just there to support 32 big apps from iOS 1 have lingering bugs.




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