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I'll weigh in on the side of "why the hell not" when it comes to modifying software values in a piece of hardware... so Apple writes their software to make their hardware stable and reliable, and someone goes off and mods some software, gaining functionality, and maybe sacrificing some overall stability. If the stability introduced is unacceptable, all said person has to do is revert to an earlier version of the software... factory reset, problem solved.
Unless the software modifications result in hardware failure, what's the problem? People too attached to Apple's co...er... hype and "innovation" are free to leave their hardware as it came, with all the bells and whistles. For bellaholics and whistlepheliacs, the option is there to personalize... if doing so makes the phone crash, too bad - for aftermarket software problems you've got to go to the aftermarket techs, or *cough* reinstall factory software. Generally custom mods are too difficult to do for people who don't understand what they're getting into, and reverting to earlier software is often outstandingly easy. On an iPod all that's necessary is a simple button sequence you can look up on the internet and the defaults are all loaded from some flash on the mainboard... somehow I doubt that if Apple made their phone mod-enabled that anyone would complain.
I just don't see what the big deal is. There are still people out there that buy a Porsche to modify it, because the best can always get better with a personal touch. It's not like having the option to mod forces anyone to do it.
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And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be
banana-shaped.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again
how sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Oh, certainly, sir.
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