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Toyota Yields To Apple Over Jailbroken Phones

Posted by Roblimo on Saturday April 9, 2011 @05:58AM from the typo-in-the-headline-is-embarassing dept.

zakkie writes "Toyota has caved to pressure from Apple and pulled custom themes for jailbroken iPhones. According to ModMyi.com founder Kyle Matthews, a representative of Toyota's ad agency said that Toyota gave in to Apple's request in order to 'maintain their good relationship with Apple', and amounted to a direct attack by Apple on jailbroken iPhones."

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Re:FTFY by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-09 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

You're call...
Awww... you were doing so well.
You have to jailbreak an iPhone... by s.whiplash · 2011-04-09 07:02 · Score: 4, Funny

You have to jailbreak an iPhone to put a custom theme on it? That seems pretty restrictive. Seems like a basic customization that you should be able to do on any smartphone.