iPhone & iPod Touch Jailbreaking
Posted by Ryan on February 15, 2009 at 19:10 pm
Do you think Jailbreaking should be illegal? Well Apple, Inc. thinks it should. They believe that when Jailbreaking you are violating what you allowed to do with the firmware of your devices. Many people are split between whether it is illegal or not. Another reason why many people believe that Apple has decided to do this is because of the amount of complaints from Developers of their apps being cracked, which you can only get through Jailbreaking your device. Smule, an App Store Developer alone has made a total of 3.9 million dollars of revenue from their apps after the 30% cut that Apple takes. Even if their apps may be cracked and being downloaded through a program called Installous by Hackulo.us. This is still a huge amount of money for a company to be making through an app in the App Store. I personally want to know where you stand in this controversy. Comment below with what you think the outcome of this situation should be.
Do you think Apple will come after the people who provide the tools for Jailbreaking? Will Apple come after people have downloaded cracked apps? Will Jailbreaking ever fully be considered Jailbreaking? How will Apple inforce this?
I agree with Will, Apple will go after the people that provide the tools. This reminds me of the whole MPAA and The Pirate Bay “fight”.
The way I see it is, it’s MY device, I’ll do what i want with it. I paid for it, yet they are acting like they own it. People wouldn’t have to jailbreak it if apple did what customers wanted
I think it is fine for people to jail break their phone/ipod, and void the warranty stuff.