Editorial: is iPhone jailbreaking fostering piracy? Oh yes, it is!!!
You gotta be pretty naive to think that iPhone jailbreaking is not fostering privacy.
Often, when we mention, that iPhone jailbreaking is fostering piracy of apps, then idiot users are responding like this:
some people Jailbreak because they want to use themes and other nifty apps that Apple would otherwise never accept into App Store
Less retarded iPhone users point out, that not jailbreaking itself is fostering piracy but the fact that Apple is not copy protecting apps strong enough:
the reason Jailbreaking enables piracy is because Apple thought that hiding stuff protects it. thats wrong. protecting stuff protects it.
same problem with android. google thought hiding the apps in a folder that belongs to the root user is enough. it is not.
if Apple would have put more effort into protecting Apps, they wouldn’t need to restrict the iPhone that heavily
However all these pro-jailbreaking voices of users are idiotic babbling because when everything is said and done, with hand on your heart, at the end of the day, it is developers that suffer the most and here is what iPhone developers say about iPhone jailbreaking:
Certainly that [using nifty jailbroken apps and themes] is why many people jailbreak their phones. But it still does foster piracy.
As an author of an iPhone app myself, I’m quite dismayed that my app was already IPA’d and available for free on jailbroken phones. But
many of my coworkers have jailbroken their phones for the reasons you state. It doesn’t make them pirates, but it does give pirates an in.
These quotes come from a discussion at a website about Windows Phones but since these are voices about iPhone, not about Windows Phone, they are more relevant for Mobile Tech Addicts website, so we thought that we will mention them here.
Obviously issue of jailbreaking will hit also Windows Phone 7 Series phones but as of now it is affecting iPhone developers the most: due to jailbreaking all apps are available on dodgy websites without the need to buy them and stupid naive users keep on jailbreaking their iPhones and, even if they don’t agree with it, they foster piracy.
So we kindly ask all iPhone and iPod touch and iPad users: please do not jailbreak your device. By jailbreaking your device, you are fostering piracy and damaging developers, and in the end damaging yourself. And it is happening independently from what users of jailbroken phones think. It is like opinion of men about pregnancy: no uterus, no opinion! Replace uterus with iPhone developer and you will see what we mean…
We feel strongly about this topic, no matter about what kind of jailbreaking we talk: whether it is iPhone jailbreaking or Windows Phone 7 jailbreaking. So if you feel that lack of jailbreaking of iPhone would be violation of your personal freedoms and it is good thing generally and not really fostering piracy, then we must simply conclude: you are mentally retarded.
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I totally.disagree. the people that make the jailbreak will continue to so for the kudos involved. If I choose to jailbreak my iPhone so I can run backgrounder that’s my business and has absolutely NO effect on any developers.
If people want to pirate that’s their business and they can pay the price. But to mock the users that just want to have some extra functionality and try and lay any blame on them is just naive. Like blaming gun makers for someone pulling the trigger. Totally different and absolutely no comparisons.
Russ
I-Edward, you sound a really intelligent guy, but tell me. Can you MAKE IT RAIN?
I-Edward, perhaps you should balance things by doing another editorial on how apple themselves deliberatley restrict certain apps. Or the developers that you speak of moving there products in a backward motion via updates to get people like me to spend more money. Case in point, tom tom. Paid for in full I hasten to add worked brilliantly with no issues. An update later my gps can’t get a decent lock. Navigon has the same issue read the reviews! The answer, “buy a tom tom cradle!” for a hundred quid! Geohot was offered 50k for blackra1n, for whatever reason he turned it down. I hope he gets more for it from donations, and I hope he starts work on win7 when it comes out. Long live GEOHOT!
What about the huge amount of free applications that are not in Apple Store because developers could not afford to pay but willingly make them available for all iPhone (jailbreak) users?
Eduard: it’s not clear in your text- didn’t you jailbreak your iPhone? Is all your PC software legal?
Are Apple’s ridiculous restrictions and censorship fostering jailbreaking?
I dont jailbrek and I dont use illegal or stolen software, so please discuss topic at hand instead attacking me!
I-Edward. Don’t get me wrong I like you, but I find your editorial slightly offensive. You use the words retard, idiotic, etc. People will be upset! Please answer my question. How can tom tom work well until they release a car kit with it’s own gps chip. An update later the iPhones own gps is no longer sufficient. Read the reviews for tom tom or navigon. They are moving backward. Also, especially WM, Software developers often know they have developed issues but DENY they exist because to admit it would damage sales. Remember also I too have never stolen software. Everything that’s on my phone has been paid for via iTunes. The tiny percentage of stolen software out there is a drop in the ocean compared to the HAWK software companies who are raping us!
Sorry guys but this has gripped my $hit!
How about we discuss this Edward! A quote from one of your posts:-
Will it be approved? We wish! Opera Mini not only saves bandwidth but it is simply many times faster than Safari as you can see in video below. We reckon that there is no chance in hell that Apple will approve it”.
everyone knows that opera mini chugs along very well despite poor signal strength. Still don’t wanna jailbreak I-Edward? No I don’t think we are mentally retarded!
Guys, Edward is crazy, seems to be drunk and offensive since years on http://www.msmobiles.com.
His articles are purely sensation-seeking without any real knowledge/facts. And he is calling everyone who disagrees with his opinion (and most often, his opinion is purely wrong), “Stupid”, “Retarded” and other things.
You should just stop to read his articles as it is pure bashing and whining …
“Why won’t he fight me!” (as was once said in some film!)
yeah I know the guy your talking about! God the mobile tech world is very small. I didn’t realise it was the same Edward! Yeah the guys very much an aquired taste!
He is to the mobile tech world what Andy Gray is to football!!! And Edward, if your Reading this and you don’t know much about football then don’t worry, because neither does Andy Gray;)
Far be it from me to suggest, but if your gonna do an editorial, then perhaps a blanket slating followed by silence is not great.
That said, now I know who you are, keep em coming because it’s great amusement value.
“you are stupid or a liar”. Brilliant.