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Another thing to keep in mind is that these devices already exist (used by Apple internally), only on the black market. A lot of these development fused devices
by buzzert 7y ago
Another thing to keep in mind is that these devices already exist (used by Apple internally), only on the black market. A lot of these development fused devices are stolen from the factory and sold to black hat/gray hat hackers (and companies) already.
I think one of the intentions here is to lessen the demand for black market dev-fused phones, which is already a huge problem for Apple. This is similar to the idea of officially allowing Linux on the PlayStation — give hackers no legitimate reason to pwn your console
- saagarjha 7y agoI wonder how loose the "application" will be.
- ben174 7y agoDoesn't really matter. It's a formality at this point. It's basically public once they do this and they're aware of that.
- joosters 7y agoI thought that the Linux-on-PlayStation was actually a tax dodge? Something like it let them claim the devices were not just games consoles and so their import duties could be reduced in some regions.
- voltagex_ 7y agoYou'd think someone would have dug up a citation for this, but Wikipedia says (for the PS2): >Some incorrectly speculate it was used as an attempt to help classify the PS2 as a computer to achieve tax exempt status from certain EU taxes that apply to game consoles and not computers (It was the Yabasic included with EU units that was intended to do that).[citation needed] and Linux on the PS3 was used as a marketing point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS - both these pages are really bad :/