Apple tries to make Jailbreaking illegal
By Casey Butz
The
U.S government stated in July 2010 that “Jailbreaking” an iPhone, iPad and iPod
touch is a legal act as long as the process didn'tget too carried off. Apple
was very angry at the court because they had spent a lot of time and money into
their devices. “Jailbreaking” is simply the process of removing the
restrictions/limitations created by Apple on any iOS device through the use of
custom kernels. I have my iPod touch 3G jailbroken, and so far I really like
it. It’s much better than a non-jailbroken device. Apple says it’s unlawful to
jailbreak an iOS Device, but they have not taken legal action against the tens
of millions of people who have jailbroken their devices and used the Cydia app,
which is where you get all of the new unrestricted tweaks. If I were Apple, and
I hated jailbreaking so much, I would just research some of the advantages of
jailbreaking, and copy some of them into their next software update. That way,
people would decide to not jailbreak their iOS device.
There are over 30,000 jailbreak themes and
tweaks. Jay Freeman, the person
who runs Cydia, has said that over ten milliion people have his alterative
market app installed on their iOS device. "If there was something on the
books that made jailbreaking exempt, that would be painful", said Freeman.
Apple declares that while jailbreaking may be legal, it will violate the Apple
warranty on the iOS device.
This
is a an example of a jailbroken iPod Touch. This is just some of the things you
can do while being jailbroken.
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| A jailbroken iPod Touch |
Casey, I have not heard much about this topic, and it is a very interesting subject at that. Though your own opinions are important, this is not an editorial and therefore they are not important to add in here. Way to go with sanitizing a very expensive problem to Apple and the wireless companies that support Apple.
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