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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.
Then don't download someones crappy application dumb fuck. To say the lack of applications and such a limited number of applications is a good thing, make absolutely NO sense. If you are worried about a crappy app crashing your phone, don't use it, no one is forcing you to use it. The people that WANT to use it or try others that don;t crash should still be able to do that. Your blurb is the same blurb that Apple fans have been spouting off for years with everything Apple makes, the limited choice is a good thing and Apple does not want to look bad or have to support third party things. Guess what, they do not have to support it, Ford does not support my Vortec supercharger, my Fram air filter, or my Holley intake manifold, MS does not support my IBM mouse or my Antec Power supply. Why do you think Apple would suddenly have to support it?
Think about yourself, not Apple. Apple is not thinking about you, in fact, Apple has no idea who you are other then JoeRandom that handed over $599 last month.
Even trying to compare OS X to Linux proves you don't have a clue. They aren't even remotely close. You can stick a Mac in front of your grandmother and she will have no trouble. Try doing the same with Linux.
... I use what is best.
Linux is NOT even CLOSE to how good OS X is.
Call me a fanboy, I don't care