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AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken
Wired has noted that "Soon, thanks to the tireless efforts of the iPhone Dev Team, you will be able to install apps on your AppleTV. An upcoming Jailbreak tool, called SHAtter, has already been used to unlock the new Apple TV's firmware." The units are supposedly now shipping. I have a lot of questions about the device (like how will it handle the photo screen saver if your local machines are offline) but hacking it might make the thing more usable (divx please, and how about letting my screen share my desktop to my TV?).
Because Apple makes stuff that people have chose to buy and use, while the reality of the PC market meant that Windows was constantly crammed down everyone's throat whether they wanted it or not.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
I think what Apple does is good, generally. Not for me, since I love to be able to fuck around with my gadgets, but for less technically-oriented people, it's easy to use, it provides a few options, and they push back against the media companies as much as any commercial enterprise can. iTunes media sharing is a good example: they made it really easy to actually copy songs to another computer within the application interface. They also moved to DRM-free music sales (the jury is still out on video).
Apple basically drives the state of the art in consumer computer/multimedia integration. They also leave a ton of room for more open projects to innovate around them. They provide a target, and another company can provide a basically work-alike product that has the added advantage of being open.
Explain to me how this is any different than the typical OSS reply:
You have the source, fix it/add the feature yourself.
Certainly this is effort better spent improving solutions that are already more capable from the get-go?
The only people that jailbreak are people who want to tinker and the small group of people who want to use an alternate carrier for the iPhone, which immediately gives up features by switching to another provider.
Most people are not geeks. Most people could give a fuck about your Jihad against software that isn't "open". Most people will just buy the device and use it and be happy.
Its only the morons who buy something they didn't actually want, then spend time and effort to jail break it. I've jailbroken my iPhone ... and after realizing there was no redeeming reason to do so, no software that was so impressive that I cared ... I restored it back to normal and haven't bothered with it since.
Stop being such a fanatic and things don't look nearly as silly.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
True.
However, most people don't want full control and open source.
Most people want 'it works, its easy, and I don't have to fuck with it for 80 hours to get it to work'
I'm sure you fall into this category:
http://xkcd.com/196/
The rest of us don't.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
ur mum's face need to get out more
The fact that average Apple users don't mind being skullfucked doesn't change that they are basically... being... well, skullfucked!
I don't understand why it's ok to rail on Apple for needing to jailbreak to get extra software features, but it's perfectly fine to suggest rooting your Android phone.
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Sorry, but you're going to have to stop your whining until you find Apple actually pushing any iDevice as a general purpose computing device. They're all running the same OS, so they all behave the same. AND THEY'RE ALL LIMITED. They sell them that way. Simplicity is a hallmark of any iDevice, for a reason.
YOU want the iPad as a general purpose computing device, and so pitch a fit because Apple isn't providing it to you. In spite of the fact that they sell it as a limited computing device.
Take your bunny & go home.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure