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iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong
snydeq writes "Despite the productivity promises of Apple's forthcoming 3.0 firmware update, jailbreaking should continue to push the iPhone's productivity envelope, as users increasingly demand the Holy Grail of smartphone power use: applications that run in the background, InfoWorld reports. Copy and paste, video recording and streaming, Internet tethering, and content search are just a few of the features over which iPhone users have sought to jailbreak their devices — a practice Apple itself has done little to crack down on. Jailbreak apps circumvent hardware and software restrictions that Apple says ensure a consistent, responsive user interface and optimal battery endurance. In particular, jailbroken phones can run apps in the background, a capability Apple reserves for its own apps but prohibits in third-party programs. Jay Freeman, creator of the Cydia iPhone installer and Cydia Store, however, believes a free-market approach is the best way to satisfy power users' demands for features without compromising the performance of their iPhones. And given Apple's App Store overcrowding, it seems likely that jailbroken phones and app venues like Cydia Store will continue to be popular with iPhone customers and developers, even after the 3.0 firmware ships."
...is there a more stupid faux-tech-neo-nerd-speak expression than "Jailbroken?"
I would sortof find this amusing but the grammar is wrong; for two items, you use only "and" with no comma. Of course, given slashdot's excellent track record for precision grammar...
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Hmm, I sit here and I wonder...did the submitter for this article have a beard? We'll probably never know.
I often wonder about stuff like that. What about you? Does your soul still wonder about beards?
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Is it too much to ask for people to read the things they moderate? The parent should be "-1 lolwut?"
Morons. In your raging prejudicing fake-political-correctness you ironically got just as blind as the Nazis, so you did not see what I meant with this:
He stated that it is against the EULA. I stated "So?", and meant "So what? Who cares?"
Then I was reminded of a good example, why it is not always right to follow the EULA/Law: In Nazi Germany, it was somehow illegal to be Jewish. So here, the right thing to do, would be, not to follow the law, but protect the Jews (which my Grandparents did with many of them, risking their life in the process).
The same thing, but milder, applies here too. The EULA is wrong. So it does not matter if it states that thisandthat is suchandsuch. Only blind followers would stop thinking for themselves in this situation.
Which ironically, is exactly what the moderators did, when they modded me down, because they wrongly thought I would do this.
You moderators really have learned nothing from the Holocaust. You are still blind extremists. Only in the other direction.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.