Apple can do anything it wants with its software. Just as any person decides who comes into his house, a corporation decides on what terms others can use its software.

The law disagrees with your opinion. And that's a good thing.

Can a person cut your leg off in his house as part of "terms of service"?

If I buy it and fully own it, I should be able to do anything I want with it.

I totally agree and this has always been my problem with the iPad. It’s a great peace of hardware that to this day I can’t fully use for development. I have to resort to _crappy_ solutions like running a VM with code-server and SSH in order to do some work on a device perfectly capable of running stuff on its own, but walled off.

I recommend the first. Atlas Shrugged is one of my favourites. The main lesson I took from it was to think for myself. A quote from the book (paraphrased): "an error made by yourself is safer than ten truths taken on faith".

"We the Living" -- by Ayn Rand. This novel, unlike Orwell's 1984, shows that one does not have to loose his identity under oppression of communism.