Toyota Yields To Apple Over Jailbroken Phones

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:Could someone explain this?

[davester666]

Other than "I was bored, so I did it", why would you bother with OpenMoko on say, an Android phone?

If you can jailbreak your phone [which has to be done to most Android phones, just like Apple] to install another OS, why not just install Android, which is years more advanced than OpenMoko, and is actively being worked on and probably has 5 or 6 orders of magnitude more apps and even developer tools for it [vs OpenMoko]?

If you get stuck on something, you are more likely to be able to get some help from someone else, your work, if you make it available, is more likely to be looked at and/or used by others.

To me, OpenMoko is Android, only without a large company developing and marketing it, and without any significant industry support for it.