Ownership is a bundle of rights that takes colloquial meaning based on context [1]. (Owning a cat, ornament, painting, apartment and freehold plot are functionally distinct.)
The words this discussion demands are possession and control, the machine codes of ownership. You possess your device on purchase. You do not control it. Even if you controlled the OS, the carriers wouldn’t let you control the chipset connecting to their network.
Ownership is a bundle of rights that takes colloquial meaning based on context [1]. (Owning a cat, ornament, painting, apartment and freehold plot are functionally distinct.)
The words this discussion demands are possession and control, the machine codes of ownership. You possess your device on purchase. You do not control it. Even if you controlled the OS, the carriers wouldn’t let you control the chipset connecting to their network.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership