Apple Officially Going to War Against Jailbreaking

[joemailey]

People seem to be missing the point. When they say apple will lose customers.

What I have got from this thread is a lot of the people aren't even using the latest iPhone or iPod touch.

Apple doesn't gain any money from you after you buy the phone or iPod.

So what does Apple actually have to lose by stopping the jailbreak?

They have nothing what so ever to lose. As people with jail broken phones do not buy anything from the app store hardly.

As they can all get it free.

They aren't buying the latest hardware(3GS).

So Apple will lose nothing as the jail breakers will have already paid apple for the phone/ipod.

Different if apple was the service provider and they where getting X amount of money every month from you.

I use to jail break my phone so I could do the following:

Send MMS

Forward SMS

So I could use my Vodafone sim in it.

That was it. I've also had the iPhone 2G, 3G, I now use the 3GS. I stopped using the jail break along time ago as I joined O2.

[Shadrack]

You're not tech savvy enough?!? Download blackrain. Connect phone via USB. Hit start. 5 mins later, you're jailbroken and ready to go. A monkey could do it.

Lol. I was trying to be funny but it backfired :p.

[Nayos]

People seem to be missing the point. When they say apple will lose customers.

What I have got from this thread is a lot of the people aren't even using the latest iPhone or iPod touch.

Apple doesn't gain any money from you after you buy the phone or iPod.

So what does Apple actually have to lose by stopping the jailbreak?

They have nothing what so ever to lose. As people with jail broken phones do not buy anything from the app store hardly.

As they can all get it free.

They aren't buying the latest hardware(3GS).

So Apple will lose nothing as the jail breakers will have already paid apple for the phone/ipod.

Different if apple was the service provider and they where getting X amount of money every month from you.

I use to jail break my phone so I could do the following:

Send MMS

Forward SMS

So I could use my Vodafone sim in it.

That was it. I've also had the iPhone 2G, 3G, I now use the 3GS. I stopped using the jail break along time ago as I joined O2.

If you think that you are severely misinformed

[McCordRm]

To me, this seems stupid.

How much money are they losing from people hacking their device?

If I could sell an over-priced device in the first place I'd be happy.

But then someone comes along and develops a reason (more motivation)

for people to buy it, and I didn't have to pay them? WOW, I'm all for it.

[Argi]

I jailbroke to change the theme, I buy good apps from the Store (/wave Tweetie) and have never pirated anything. Thanks Apple.

[scratch42069]

I don't pirate with my jailbroken ipod but I do install third-party apps like winterboard. If Apple officially supported theming and loosened up their iron grip on the devices just a little bit, then I'd have no reason to jailbreak.

[Echilon]

Why why why? Jailbreaking was the biggest draw.

[Subject Delta]

I think the 'Root' and 'alpine' is set by installing openssh not by apple.

Besides, Jailbreaking is a serious business, If apple controlled it and changed the password it would be cracked within 5 mins again.

Nope it isn't alpine is actually the device's root password, SSH is just the mechanism by which the phone is opened up to intruders.

What I have got from this thread is a lot of the people aren't even using the latest iPhone or iPod touch.

Apple doesn't gain any money from you after you buy the phone or iPod.

So what does Apple actually have to lose by stopping the jailbreak?

They have nothing what so ever to lose. As people with jail broken phones do not buy anything from the app store hardly.

As they can all get it free.

I have my iTouch jailbroken and I still buy apps from the app store occasionally, and the occasional track from iTunes, but even when jailbroken customisation on Android is so much easier, which really just strengthens my resolve never to buy an iPhone. I know Apple like to keep an iron gripped stranglehold on their products, but they need to open their eyes and realise that if they made their products more customisable, most people would probably not even bother jailbreaking. The iPhone's default look of icons on a black background is majourly boring

[MrChainsaw]

Why why why? Jailbreaking was the biggest draw.

Don't worry, this will not get far.

[NY1]

This is like MS trying to stop people from pirating windows. We know how successful that has been. Whatever is made can be unmade.

[Ji@nBing]

The iPhone's default look of icons on a black background is majourly boring

Not only that, but the little square icons too. Even 99% of custom themes seem to just stick to the little square icons, and I just don't get it. You can use normal icons too if you wish!! Almost all of the square icon themes look basically identical to me. There are a few exceptions, but really there isn't much creativity or difference in most of them.