Thread: Which ship will you jumping into?
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gerbick
2010-08-17 , 01:30
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
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.
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.

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.

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.