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Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store
Hugh Pickens writes "Adam Mills writes in the Examiner that Apple has been cutting off access to the iTunes App Store for iPhone hackers and jailbreakers. Sherif Hashim, the iPhone developer who successfully hacked the iPhone OS 3.1.3 and unlocked the 05.12.01 baseband for iPhone 3GS and 3G devices, discovered he'd been cut off and twittered: '"Your Apple ID was banned for security reasons," that's what i get when i try to go to the app store, they must be really angry.' Another hacker, iH8Sn0w, who is behind the Sn0wbreeze tool, confirms that his account has also been deactivated even though iH8sn0w's exploit had only been revealed to Dev Team, the group responsible for the PwnageTool. 'It is kind of surprising that two people associated with jailbreaking have had this happen to them so soon after one another, but it's too early to say if this is a campaign that Apple is starting up,' writes Mills."
Is a lot like the experience you have after having a few too many drinks and wandering into a dark alley at 3AM.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Ummm... Apple has never started making money hand over fist with iTunes. Income from iTunes and the iPhone app store together are a negligible portion of Apple's revenue. Seriously, they both barely make more than the operational cost.
It must suck for a company to have a component of its business operating at a profit.
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"Okay, IBM and clone manufacturers, we seed 90%+ of market share to you to assure our purity."
So its Apple who are behind all those OSX torrents!!
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Made from the freshest electrons.
Let me get this straight: if a seller suspects that a potential customer doesn't pay, they should refuse to sell? Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. Reminds me of cable TV.
Me: I want to pay you money every month, to watch HBO or Showtime content on my MythTV.
Comcast: No. Fuck you. Keep your fucking money, you fucking fuck.
Me: Ok (firing up Transmission), let me know if you ever change your mind and open for business.
You can't help yoursef?
No later than when they passed the ADA.
Benford's Corollary to Clarke's Law: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
So being an Apple fanboi is a disability? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
With a reply like that you don't need to point out that you aren't a lawyer, really.
You have to have a company to sign up for ADC; the form won't let you continue if you leave the "Company" field blank.
Just use Cirius Cybernetics, like I always do. It's not like they check your D&B rating, ya know, or ask for bank references.
For people who are willing to circumvent copy protection on a whim, you sure aren't very resourceful...