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Yes, you do have to jailbreak your iDevice device to do it but once you do that you will find no platform that offers the ease of pirating that iOS does. Once you load Installous it's on like Donkey Kong(TM). Get it?

there is zero risk to rooting an iOS device...
You can't brick it since it has DFU mode.

Jailbreaking requires no effort. The latest jailbreak has a windows/linux/mac program you run the program, plus your ipod/iphone/ipad in usb. Click start, sit back when app says reboot you reboot then bam Cydia is now installed on the device.

now you open Cydia go to add sources and put in http://cydia.hackulo.us/

let it refresh apps from the sources (since it's a front end for apt-get)

then install the app called "Installous" or grab the .deb directly from the repository (http://cydia.hackulo.us/installous-5.0.3-1.deb)

now you have access to all app store programs without paying, and in game item purchases without paying.

there is no effort or risk on iOS device.

it's actually little harder on android devices.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA...*gasp*...hahahahaha...when can I buy your DVD?

But the number of Android users who are willing to pay for their software is simply too low.

Too low for what? There are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of applications on Android. EA has a slew of high quality games as does Madfinger. What percentage of devs are making these complaints? .01 percent? .1 percent? If you want lockdown, there is an app(store) for that. BTW, don't look now but this exists and it makes it drop dead easy to pirate practically every single app on iTunes. Easier than Android even.

You can install flash on any idevice... just jailbreak it and install "frash" from Cydia...

works great, plays all of newsground stuff / homestar runner without any problems on my ipod touch.

just cause "Jobs" said this or said that don't mean shit. He's a moron and the only real reason to get an iDevice is to jailbreak it so you have full control and install what you want.

or go all out and toss in the http://cydia.hackulo.us/ repository into Cydia and download Installous and tell all the iapps to piss off if ya wanted.

But yea... just install frash on your idevice and you have flash... there is even an app in the official appstore that gives you flash content "http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skyfire-web-browser-flash/id384941497?mt=8" course Skyfire browser is server side and more an experimental thing but it's in the official app store and delivers newsground/homestarrunner flash animations officially on all idevices.

and the app is still available on Installous course you dont have to pay for any apps on installous :)

To get installous open Cydia and add a new source, then add the http://cydia.hackulo.us/ repository.

then you can download installous appstore which has all apps on the normal store, except they are now all free.

also installous keeps all apps even if they are removed by apple from the main appstore they will always be available on installous for jailbroken users.

I found it searching 'phone story' in installous it was about 4 pages down when you get to bottom of screen and it auto loads next screen of search results. there was only 1 source on fileape when I picked it up. http://phonestory.org/banned.html the developer will probably put it on Cydia he mentions on his website also. If the Fileape source is down the listing drops I'll repost in the hackulous forums for a repost. also http://hackulo.us/forums/ - has a request section they have the binary there to install manually

a locked-down, piracy-free platform

Bwahahahahaha!! Oh, you're serious? Here, let me help you...

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