4 Jul
2012
4 Jul
'12
2:53 p.m.
On 07/04/2012 05:45 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
You can always opt to target the Jailbreak market.
Apple don't seem
to care a whole lot about jailbreaking, except for explicitly not
providing support.
Ah, no, that's not my view at least. Every single release of iOS
closes the last-exploited jailbreak hole. They do this very diligently
for every release. Sometimes I'm quite certain that it has been the
only reason for a particular release. They very much do NOT want
jailbroken devices out there...but the US courts have ruled that
jailbreaking is not illegal, a ruling Apple was surely none to happy about!
The key issue here is whether "alternative"
computing will be
actively shut out or not. The danger lies in extending the "walled
garden" approach to the world at large, eg. denying open systems
access to the internet. I find issues like net neutrality, for this
reason and others, far mor eimportant than manufacturers offering
closed systems.
I agree 100%. But starting up private connections between systems is
how the Internet would recover from such gov't buffoonery. Either as a
VPN or as a completely separate, parallel network.
That would have the side benefit of weeding out all of the morons and
profiteering suits.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA