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The tech blogs are starting to realize that these kinds of sensationalist headlines about Apple really bring the page-hits. If they lose a few serious readers
by thought_alarm 16y ago
The tech blogs are starting to realize that these kinds of sensationalist headlines about Apple really bring the page-hits. If they lose a few serious readers along the way, well who really cares?
The reality, of course, is that Apple has been doing very little to prevent the Jailbreak scene, and I'm sure those who do Jailbreak couldn't give a rat's ass about the legality of it.
This doesn't change how Apple approaches Jailbreaking, nor does it suddenly make jailbreaking less of a pain in the ass. And it surely doesn't change users' attitudes. In other words, nothing has changed.
- mrkurt 16y agoApple was explicitly campaigning against this, it's addressed in the article: > The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued that jailbreaking one's iPhone should be allowed, even though it required one to bypass some DRM and then to reuse a small bit of Apple's copyright firmware code. Apple showed up at the hearings to say, in numerous ways, that the idea was terrible, ridiculous, and illegal. In large part, that was because the limit on jailbreaking was needed to preserve Apple's controlled ecosystem, which the company said was of great value to consumers. ---- Also, a previous article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/apple-sides-with-mpaa-riaa-against-drm-circumvention.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/apple-sides-with-m...