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Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released
tlhIngan writes "It certainly took long enough, but the untethered jailbreak for Apple's A5 based iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 4s) has been released (official site, struggling due to traffic). It's currently only available for OS X, though ports of it to Windows are forthcoming."
What interests me is that you obviously don't own your own phone according to the gospel of Jobs. This is why I moved from Apple. Unless Apple Inc. wishes to give me a free phone, I OWN THE DAMN THING.
So go nuts with a soldering gun, but you don't own Apple's software.
You can make that little A5 chip or the other components do anything you want electrically, but nobody is compelled to give you software that logically does anything you think of simply because the hardware is programmable and Turing complete.
That goes for anything, not just Apple's gear. I'm sick of all this "you don't own it" bullcrap because some people feel entitled to development frameworks, flashing tools, specifications, etc. for anything with a programmable chip inside it. I'm sorry, that's actually giving most of you too much credit because you don't want to do actual work, you just want the software that someone else wrote to do what you want, probably for free. /rant