More to the point, everything these days comes with rules. I don't blame Apple for taking all the 'free' software rolling it up, and making motza's by selling it debugged with a nice bitmap on hiding all the crud.
Then for hacking, nothing stops anyone hacking the devices. Except for Sony. And its led to their products going out of favour. If you really need to hack. Try www.hackaday.com There's also a Sydney Hacking Space. You don't need to feel left out. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html