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I own the hardware of my iPod touch. I have the right to jailbreak it, and in doing so forsake Apple's promise to help me when things to wrong. Of course I hav

I own the hardware of my iPod touch. I have the right to jailbreak it, and in doing so forsake Apple's promise to help me when things to wrong. Of course I have control. I just don't have control if I use both Apple's hardware and their software as Apple originally designed it. That's perfectly within Apple's jurisdiction as a company. I understand why you might think that their stance is ridiculous, but think of it like this: Apple's design strategy is to make products that are foolproof. That means blocking something like a background application that might ruin my experience, even if that means taking away some of my control. It limits what I can do, but within those limits I'm relatively safer. When I download an application, there's no threat of it running in the background without my knowing and sapping my battery. Is it incredible that I put up with my iPod? I know full well that I have control of who to purchase from. If I didn't want a closed system, I could go somewhere else. Nobody forced me to use Apple products. Their monopoly is not forced upon users; we accept it voluntarily. As a result, I get a music player/video player/miniature computer that does many things very effortlessly. When I buy an application, all I need to know is that it appears as a little button I can click to run it. When I want to add music to my iPod, all I do is make sure it's in iTunes, and then my player syncs. It's simple, and it means that I don't waste any of my time whatsoever with my iPod. It does everything I want and nothing I don't want. I don't see why people find it hard to accept that some people want freedom at the cost of effortlessness, and others want effortlessness at the cost of freedom. It's not incredible or ridiculous. It's simply different philosophy.

windsurfer 17y ago
May I ask why it is that every time there's an update, the jailbreakers have to find yet another way in? Do you think maybe Apple doesn't want you getting into your hardware?
- zimbabwe 17y ago
  If you don't choose to get the update, you don't need to jailbreak. It means that you don't get the advantage of Apple's own work, but that's part of the deal. Either you can get Apple's updates or you can have absolute freedom of your system. I view it as similar to the way that each new version of OS X requires a new version of Shapeshifter for skinning, because Apple keeps changing their UI inner workings. Apple's not beholden to the third parties trying to change their system.

windsurfer 17y ago

May I ask why it is that every time there's an update, the jailbreakers have to find yet another way in? Do you think maybe Apple doesn't want you getting into your hardware?

zimbabwe 17y ago
If you don't choose to get the update, you don't need to jailbreak. It means that you don't get the advantage of Apple's own work, but that's part of the deal. Either you can get Apple's updates or you can have absolute freedom of your system. I view it as similar to the way that each new version of OS X requires a new version of Shapeshifter for skinning, because Apple keeps changing their UI inner workings. Apple's not beholden to the third parties trying to change their system.