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Hint: you won't find the answer in the post. Just some speculation based on (wierd, IMHO) assumption: This is problematic because if there were no fear of vo

Hint: you won't find the answer in the post. Just some speculation based on (wierd, IMHO) assumption: This is problematic because if there were no fear of voiding warranty, undoubtedly many customers would jailbreak their iPhone, There would be alternate markets for iPhone software, and there would be a truly competitive marketplace. Are apps in Cydia all coded in Flash, or Haskel? What does he mean by "truly competitive"? Is it all because of the warranty clause, really? You can put mp3 on your iPod from any source without voiding the warranty. Does not hurt ITMS a bit.

4chan4ever 17y ago
It's not a weird assumption, it's a completely relevant assumption. Currently, if you want to build iPhone software using anything other than the approved Apple stack, jail-breaking is required by fiat. You have no option. It means the iPhone market isn't truly competitive; the "best" development environments and practices aren't allowed to bubble to the top; instead we're constrained to the Apple backwater (and it IS a backwater; trust me when I say Apple should be so lucky to have something like Haskell or Flash or .NET running on their shitty hardware). Btw, an MP3 is a data file, not a piece of software. Not an App.