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A principle reason they give as a defense of their app review policy and walled garden approach is that it is necessary to protect users from bad or malicious a
by spinchange 16y ago
A principle reason they give as a defense of their app review policy and walled garden approach is that it is necessary to protect users from bad or malicious apps.
I think he's inferring (or pointing out the irony) that perhaps it's not the 3rd party ones they need to be so overly concerned with.
- dman 16y agoThe popularity of the jailbreaks suggests that apple might be underestimating the intelligence of their own users.
- andreyf 16y agoI think Apple realizes the importance of the jailbreaking community (at least, some people at Apple do - do you doubt that 20 year old Steve Jobs would have jailbroken his phone?). I imagine they're simply uninterested in an arms race on that front.
- CamperBob 16y agoTrue; 20-year-old Steve Jobs was 'jailbreaking' the whole damn phone company (http://www.paulgraham.com/bluebox.html http://www.paulgraham.com/bluebox.html).
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