Frosstbyte

I guess my point is why not have it both ways. People that want to keep their iPhones (and whatever else follows suit) clean and just as Steve wants them to be can and it'll be all the great things that it can normally be. However, what's the harm in letting people mod and tweak if they want to knowing that they're risking introducing instability or incompatibility? These people know they're making it do something "it's not intended to do" and accept the consequences of that fact.

Not that blizzard is a model company, but its WoW mod community is a good example. The default interface works and does everything you want it to and if something breaks the FIRST thing they'll say when you talk to tech support is, "Delete all of your third party interface modifications. Does the problem still happen?" If it does, they deal with it (usually). If it doesn't, then they tell you, "Can't help you, the 3rd party mod world is a wide wonderful place. Good luck." When blizzard updates the game and changes what mods will work and how, the 3rd party modders have to fix their shit to make it work or retire from modding. Same could be true here and, as far as I can tell, there isn't a HARM from having that policy other than old fashioned paternalism.

It's a far cry from saying "we can't help you if you break it" to "we're going to turn your phone off."