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Come on. Playing card companies don't spend money and time to restrict the "playing card platform." Alarm clocks don't even have firmware to restrict and alarm
by thras 17y ago
Come on. Playing card companies don't spend money and time to restrict the "playing card platform." Alarm clocks don't even have firmware to restrict and alarm clock companies don't care one way or another if their users take them apart and mess with the circuit boards.
Apple, on the other hand, has worked pretty damn hard to restrict their customers from being able to install their own software. That is very much a "fuck you" direct from Steve Jobs.
- joubert 17y agoIsn't it a balancing act to give the END USER the best quality the company believes the user should get?
- redrobot5050 17y agoAnd protect a developer's investment? Easily hacked platforms become easily pirated platforms....just ask anyone who developed games for the Dreamcast....
- theBobMcCormick 17y agoThe Wii, the Nintendo DS, the original Xbox, the PSP... All were easily hacked and are super easy to load pirated games onto. And yet, publishers seem to still be making money quite handily on these platforms. It seems highly unlikely that Apples draconian restrictions on iPhone apps has much to do with piracy.
- menloparkbum 17y agoIt's as easy to hack the iPhone as the PSP or DS - you just need to jailbreak it.
- redrobot5050 17y ago...And people have already called the PSP a "dead" platform because of the ease and rate of PSP game piracy. Its definitely turned some developers off, and made others decide to "half-ass" their ports to the PSP, for fear of losing money on the platform.