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Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

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Originally Posted by mmurfin87 (Post 788735)

If they happen to be proprietary, so be it.

If PCs were as locked down as smarphones are these days, I think we would be much farther behind. Sad to see people rooting for needless hamstringing.

Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 788730)

Jailbreaking makes the iPhone a geek-oriented device? Excuse me? Apple hates it when you jailbreak because it means no revenue from the App Store. They certainly don't want you stepping outside their pretty little barred garden.

approx 10% of the total iOS users jailbreak.
approx 40% of the jailbreakers pirate apps.

Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

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Originally Posted by mmurfin87 (Post 788735)

I root for the best product for my needs as a consumer. If they happen to be proprietary, so be it.

My toughts exactly. Following "Motherships" is about religion. But you have needs, and phones that fit better or worse at them, and that should be what matters at choosing a path.

The combo of Maemo, its software, community, and the hardware of N900 made it the best so far for my current needs. But if the next device with meego won't fullfill them, i could choose to go in other direction. Is still in the future, can't say what it will bring, but won't blindly say what i would pick right now without knowing what is really coming.

Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 788730)

I use BlackRa1n (or was it Spirit, starting to forget) and I kept my iTunes store intact. Got updates, and even got stuff via iTunes Music Store... alongside Cydia.

They'll continue to get money; they just are unequipped to support a jailbroken phone. But they can still make revenue from that phone in most cases.

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WP7 looks to be pushed by MS in the same fashion, and if anything iOS and WP7 devices will be the first to apply whatever punitive lockdown measures are available.

Okay here, we agree. But not all phones have a public repository and a (semi-functioning) store like the N900.

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Kinda sad how so many people seem to be rooting for extremely locked down systems for what is arguably the next tier of personal computing.

Because a lot of the open talk hasn't netted much use if you're not an admin or developer. Fewer games, no Flash update, no OS upgrade, no fully functioning store. It has netted fMMS, Modest e-mail client fixes (THANK GOD) and a few other things... but not as much as the closed areas. Nor has it netted developers the type of cashflow as the other, closed down ecosystems.

Computers cost money.

Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 788751)

approx 10% of the total iOS users jailbreak.
approx 40% of the jailbreakers pirate apps.

I think there are more than that lol.
I would say:
Approximately 100% jailbreakers installed at least one pirated App. :D

Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

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Originally Posted by cenwesi (Post 788055)

lol...see what you started... not including all these other os, you will get flamed.

Yeah! I want a Haiku-phone!

Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 790203)

Yeah! I want a Haiku-phone!

Haiku phones are rare.
In fact they don't exist yet.
GAH! Stuck with Maemo!

Re: Which ship will you jumping into?

Oops! You wanted a
HAIKU PHONE handset, not a
PHONE HAIKU from me. ;)