QUOTE (soulink @ Sep 8 2010, 04:55 PM)

If you buy and iphone, you OWN the phone not apple anymore, we can do what we want with it

My way of looking at it, you may own the hardware, but they still own rights to the software, software development kit, and distribution of software and as such are within their rights to keep track of how their software is being modified and how widely modifications have been spread.