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It's not just free software, but the ability to control which set of binaries you use. The final straw that pushed me away from iOS devices was when the ability to pack and backup apps from devices was removed in iOS 8 (IIRC). Case in point, I had been holding out on a particular build of official twitter app for iPad (ver4.3.2) for some time as I detest the subsequent major updates for being ugly and hard to use. From that point onwards if I lose that signed copy stored on my computer it is goodbye forever since I won't be able to pull it from my tablet if I wanted to.

Maybe I overreacted since there is a good chance that I was in voilation of whatever EULA I have agreed to, or the app might be broken by another random update but enough was enough.




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