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    • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      By and large, probably… But I don’t think it’s true for everyone.

      As an iPad owner myself, I would love to ditch the OS! And I suppose alternative OSes would be pretty popular with the people jailbreaking their phones.

      I don’t want to impose alternative OSes on others. I would just like the option for me!

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      9 months ago

      Not true. I’d love to be able to jailbreak again. I’m locked in to the ecosystem by work and a backlog of apps 15 years deep.

      Granted I’m on Lemmy so I guess I’m not a normal iOS user

    • Lmaydev@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Yeah it’s literally a status symbol amongst kids.

      My kid is desperate for one but can’t give me a single compelling reason apart from they’re seen as cool.