Because Apple knows what we all know: that as soon as you introduce a flag to turn off the nanny state, every company who wants to do something Apple doesn’t allow will tell their users to toggle that flag, and users will do what users do.

Facebook, for example, could immediately take their app off the App Store and tell their users that in order to keep using it, they have to effectively jailbreak themselves.

Whether that’s a good enough reason to disallow the existence of the switch is certainly something we’ll argue about until the end of time.