What I was trying to articulate was the process of cracking the device. As in, stealing some code (exploits), modifying it a little bit, and compiling it. In order to do any of that, you need Apple hardware (or Apple's secret flag) and then a specific version of MacOSX to even compile the thing, since downloading the SDK (which isn't made easily public) requires a specific version of Xcode which only works on certain versions of MacOSX. If I did this on literally any other platform I could just pull out gcc/clang and wack some libraries together. There are too many signs from Apple that they have manufactured planned obsolescence in order to get you to buy a new device.

Even using pins, which they spearheaded for mobile phones, is essentially useless today because its inherit limited entropy (as proven by OP cracking it in 12 min on a microcontroller).

Is it really the lack of entropy that enables that, or the 12 years of exploits and research into the OS that went on since it was released? I’d be surprised if a pincode on iOS 27 took 12 minutes to crack, since that would be a significant blow to the market for exploits.

I wouldn't say its rot, but id say its lack of user control.

Definitely in favour of more user control, but might be good to limit the user control to the owner of the device.

I wouldn't say its rot, but id say its lack of user control.

Trying to make everything 'one quick pretty button', they really destroyed the modern understanding of computers.

Even using pins, which they spearheaded for mobile phones, is essentially useless today because its inherit limited entropy (as proven by OP cracking it in 12 min on a microcontroller).

I can see how it being difficult to crack would be an indication of security, but I’m having a hard time figuring out why it would be an indicator of ecosystem rot.

I could probably give more justifiably angry reasons for why I hate Apple. I just don’t want to rant that out here. (I’m not mad at them making a secure device, just that the whole process to crack it was obviously a pain in the ass and a clear symptom of the rotting Apple ecosystem).

Easy money!

Not only that but the final iOS for iPad mini 1 was iOS 9.3.5. Which has 50+ known security vulnerabilities a decade ago.

You’re mad at Apple for making it hard to get into your device in spite of a weak password?

I will say that is a much busier wallpaper than usually have.

I dont think its that bad. I have less control over the bottom widget.

Oh gawd, that transparency makes things unreadable oO

it’s still a thing, but for RT-OS ones

Yes, it was my first iOS device. First gen iPod touch. Hard to overstate how incredibly magical it felt at the time. It was a thin slab of glass which enclosed a powerful computer. I’ll never forget its awesomeness.

Long ago I ran Rockbox on iPods. Not sure if that's still a thing.

Looks like a call screening feature to me

What’s this

So I'm running the iOS 27 beta 2 and the major bugs so far are

• Shortcuts not working anymore (tried to reset them in different ways to no avail)

• Keyboard getting stuck on the screen or not appearing at all and needing to close and reopen the apps quite often.

• The usual iOS unresponsiveness (from years ago I guess)

So get anything but an iPhone 17 Pro (or newer) or iPhone Air. It won't get the new AI. If you're looking for a new iPhone, the base 17 is awesome and it won't get the new AI.

You can turn the Liquid Ass mostly opaque. I'm on the iOS 27 dev beta and I have it mostly transparent — more so than iOS 26, I think. That's how it should be for anyone who devs (I don't but I'm not missing the point). Everyone who makes apps should have it locked on most transparent so they can make their apps not look like [liquid] ass. For everyone else, I think it should be able to be fully disabled. Bring back brushed aluminium!

I don’t care.

I want battery life and no Liquid Glass.

Everything else is useless fluff.

And I definitely don’t want ai.

A bit too late, that update was so bad and jaring that I ditched ios completely. It sucks because alternatives are not much better.

I hope it fails, we already got shitty llms aplenty.

Like this, please: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX_Interactive_Desktop#/media/File:Irixnetscape.png

It's not 100% opaque, but it is about how it was before liquid glass. Apple loves transparency too much to turn it 100% off.

I also want it off.

"Chief among those changes is a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear."

That sounds like the option to "turn it off" to me.