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Apple is not fighting jailbreaking, at least not with more than token efforts to appease people like AT&T and other carriers. All iPhones revisions out there ca
by av500 16y ago
Apple is not fighting jailbreaking, at least not with more than token efforts to appease people like AT&T and other carriers. All iPhones revisions out there can be jailbroken and can be unlocked and there is a huge number of iPhones out there in countries that don't even have an official iPhone carrier.
Apple collects a nice sum of money for every iPhone sold and does not care whether that was carrier subsidized and whether said carrier now makes a loss due to the fact that the phone was jailbroken and unlocked and used one a different network.
- modeless 16y agoApple is fighting jailbreaking, but not for the carriers. (Steve Jobs famously called them "orifices".) Apple is fighting jailbreaking to prevent piracy of App Store apps.
- masklinn 16y agoAnd they really aren't fighting it very hard. The last thing they fixed was a remotely exploitable hole which, when combined with another bug, let remote root a phone without the user's knowledge from a mere web page.
- modeless 16y agoThe fact that a remote root vulnerability existed means Apple doesn't care about jailbreaking? By that logic OpenBSD doesn't care about security because they've had two remote root vulnerabilities.
- ugh 16y agoI guess the point he was making is that making jailbreaking impossible by fixing the vulnerability was absolutely necessary.
- modeless 16y agoOh, I see, but that doesn't demonstrate his point that Apple isn't fighting jailbreaking very hard. For that he would need an example of a vulnerability that Apple didn't fix.
- ugh 16y agoWell, there’s a thing that won’t happen :) I guess the point is that updates which fix vulnerabilities (which are the only way to jailbreak) can never be evidence the Apple is fighting jailbreaking. Apple will always fix vulnerabilities, everyone always should.
- modeless 16y agoRemotely exploitable vulnerabilities, yes, but local vulnerabilities are much less urgent to fix. If Apple truly didn't care about jailbreaks, local-only vulnerabilities might stick around a lot longer.
- masklinn 16y agoNo, I mean that the last time they "fought jailbreaking" was by fixing a horrendous remotely exploitable security bug. Not exactly a stunning example of fighting jailbreaking.
- upinsmoke 16y agoApple isn't fighting piracy at all! There are tools that crack an app with a single tap. If they are fight piracy, they should let the developers verify the app getting installed like how in-app-purchase is verified from Apple's server.