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Toyota Yields To Apple Over Jailbroken Phones

Posted by Roblimo on 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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  1. Re:jobs and woz got their start doing blueboxes by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was the Equire article that took blueboxing mainstream, I remember reading it when it came out, and there had been no public hint of the blueboxing underground before that. Made Captain Crunch a cult hero overnight.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. Re:In Toyota's office... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    You don't need to jailbreak for SSH. There's an app for that.