&gt; I don&#x27;t believe they will.<p>Aka, an assumption.<p>So tell me the equivalent method to gain complete root access on an iphone. Not a jailbreak or unofficial firmware, an actual supported method by which you can become root and change anything on the device. Unless I am badly misinformed, this doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>Your faith in Apple to not lock out SIP (or otherwise continue their trend of turning their products into appliances) requires ignoring that Apple already did that on <i>other</i> products.<p>&gt; anger developers and technical users<p>So all Apple (or whomever) has to do to take away features is to make sure they have a way to satisfy or distract most of the developers and technical users. As this is not a large group of people, if they have a workaround, it does not change much.<p>I already said that this <i>technological priesthood</i> that knows how to work around these problems don&#x27;t matter, as the average users are the people who will pay for this in practice.<p>Why would it hurt users? Because this kind of feature tends to always expand in scope when there is a financial incentive to do so. You even acknowledge this.<p>&gt; I also hope apple keeps adding to the list of protected resource, to continue securing Mac OSX and IOS.<p>Securing for who? The owner of the computer? Or the vendors of their app store and music store?<p>&gt; Apple has not taken root access from me, I can still do whatever I want on my Mac Pro.<p>Sometimes this isn&#x27;t about <i>YOU</i>. This kind of selfish attitude is what allows corporations to continue taking advantage of <i>other people</i>.<p>&gt; switching to a competitor<p>How many competitors are there for people to switch to? Are you stretching the definition and including competitors that <i>are not compatible</i> and would require re-purchasing software because the software they already paid for isn&#x27;t compatible?<p>There is a huge cost to switching... which is why Apple absolutely is guilty of monopolizing (which is what the anti-trust laws ban, not a &quot;monopoly&quot; by some arbitrary market share).<p>&gt; Again I still have root on my laptop,<p>Of course. Apparently you didn&#x27;t read the part where I discussed this was a <i>warning</i> about the future, as power is taken in <i>small increments</i>.<p>More importantly, I find it interesting that you completely ignored the topic of the War On General Purpose Computing, which is central to this discussion. Doctorow&#x27;s 28C3 talk <i>directly</i> address these problems and refutes many of your replies. Do you want to learn about this problem, which has been going on for <i>many years</i>, or are you an apparatchik that believes Apple can do no wrong?