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Re:Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance by CaptSpify on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @11:34AM (#15602217)
The only real reason I haven't switched is because they won't give me control of my phone. At least with Android I can root it, install custom roms, and mess with pretty much any non-google software that I have on there.

Android is far from perfect, and I still hate it, but at least I can still control most of it.

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Re:Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance by nyolfen on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @11:50AM (#15602400)
> At least with Android I can root it,

and not just you :P

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Re:Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance by GeekyBear on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @01:20PM (#15603430)
The iOS equivalent of rooting your device is called a jailbreak.

>Jailbreaking permits root access to iOS, allowing the downloading and installation of additional applications, extensions, and themes that are unavailable through the official Apple App Store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ios_jailbreak

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