> That being said, if I want to run a torrent client on my phone, I should be able to do so. Apple will never allow that.
> If I want a Bourne/POSIX shell, I should be able run one. Apple will never allow that [AFAIK].
I believe you can accomplish the latter (via an emulator) with “ish”, and then use that to accomplish the former (with e.g. rtorrent)
I have that loaded on my phone, but look at /proc/version.