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Jobs' Next Fight — Dealing With iPhone Hackers
An anonymous reader writes "With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question worth asking is: How will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Software updates, or lawsuits? Will Apple risk losing its most frequently (ab)used legal tool, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in order to try and punish the developers of the iPhone unlocking tools? This CNET article explores the legal issues involved in this, which make it perfectly legal to reverse engineer your own iPhone, but illegal to share your circumventing source code with others."
And you base this on ... exactly nothing. Oh, but maybe Apple can do no wrong? Is that what you think? Instead of being an idiot, perhaps you should ask yourself in whose interest it is that you have to buy your ringtones from ITMS instead of just putting an mp3 on your phone like you can do with almost any other modern phone. Oh yes, that must be the RIAA, not Apple, who make money from selling the ringtones. Frankly, this is absurd.
Is that so? What kind of Nazi phone providers do you have in the U.S.? If that's how a "free" market works, then perhaps it's in the consumer's best interest to have some regulation. Most modern Sony Ericssons support mp3 and midi playback by default and can use them as ring tones. Same goes for Nokia, AFAIK. I can't see how the phone carrier can cripple that, since you can transfer the tune with USB or Bluetooth, like this (note that the easiest part of this method is getting the tune to the phone and using it). But I do know that method is crippled on the iPhone. By whom? By Apple, of course.