Apple Officially Going to War Against Jailbreaking

[davshirley]

To be honest, the ONLY reason I jailbreak is to enable tethering. If apple can get AT&T to step up and get their network in shape, I think jailbreaking will be a thing of the past for most people.

[cranie]

maybe Jody Sanders can apply

[sheon]

its one company (apple)
vs the rest of the world

they can find the smartest tech secuirty nerd they can pay for..

but there is always going to be someone smarter then them and crack the phone it may take time but it will happen people always find ways around **** no matter what i love this hacker place its amazing thx to everyone for there hard work

[Boker]

I jailbreak for the appearance aspect and run all apple payed for apps. I don't see anything wrong in that.

& stealing apps? what about 99.9% of people with ipods cant say they never downloaded a song fooo FREE?1

[24trepid]

As soon as AT&T gets Android, i'm dropping the iPhone.

Just hope they don't hire geohot, or we are all screwed ....

[adrian1480]

obviously, those complaining can either buy a different phone or remember that the phone you have is sufficient as-is to meet your needs.

you don't HAVE to update to a new phone just because a new one is available, people. Tough concept, I know.

Personally, I'm bolting as soon as this contract is up. Droid looks might fine, and they're not anal-retentive about letting their customers enjoy their product.

[carlos916]

Sounds like the Cold war is comming bak!

[Benzerellie]

Or Does GeoHot already work for Apple?

[sungod661]

just like the ps3 the end game is coming

[Zeal]

Android on the iPhone?

[confucious]

maybe Jody Sanders can apply

I thought they wanted someone who had a vague idea what an iPhone was....

[nevarDeath]

I have purchased 3 iphones, 2 for myself and one for my wife. If they couldn't be unlocked or jailbroken, I would never have gotten them. If my phone stop being able to be unlocked or jailbroken, I will jump ship to android in a heartbeat.

[Michael Barnhardt]

will they be able to do anything to iPod touches because they aren't connected to any kind of network?

[hollow0]

O.k., my wife has the MyTouch (of course the first thing I did was Root it, so that it has Tethering and multi-touch and all), I am wondering what does everyone think the iPhone can do that the myTouch can't?

I have on both:

• Tethering
• Multi-Touch
• Downloadable Apps from multiple sources
• Email
• True Web Browsing (Although Android has the advantage that it has additional web browsers that you can download and use and they are not just built as an add-on to the built-in browser)
• Calendar
• Contacts

Now, the myTouch has the following advantages over the iPhone:

• The ability to use any standard headphones for it's handsfree set
• Completely customizable out of the box
• A Memory Card
• Runs Faster than the iPhone 3G (and just slightly faster than the 3GS)
• Is from T-Mobile, so after three months they will unlock it if you ask them to
• A user changeable battery
• Larger keys on the onscreen keyboard
• Keyboard replacements that are available through the official market place

The only advantages that the iPhone seems to have so far is:

• It's camera takes slightly better pictures.
• There are more Apps (although many are useless) on the App Store
• The iPhone has games like Scrabble and Tetris officially available, although I think we will see them on the Android platform before long, if they aren't already there, I haven't checked in a while.

lol i dont' know what mytouch 3g you were looking at because i also, had my hands on experience with it. While of course it is customizable which is it's greatest advantage.. you are completely wrong about the speed of the Phone. The mytouch is not faster than the 3GS but is faster than the 3G. Yes it has full web browsing but the web browser sucks and does not load as fast as the 3GS. As for the keyboard? How is it that the mytouch keyboard is bigger when the phone itself is smaller than the iPhone? Their keyboard sucks as well it is not as good as the iPhone keyboard it's just not as precise. And i've tested the camera..only thing is that i wasn't in different scenerios to test full quality i was only limited to the store and based on what i saw the mytouch had this weird greenish yellowish background color to everything i was looking at. While the iPhone did not.

So again i dont' know which mytouch you have but i know for a fact most of what you say is not true. Like i said the greatest feature it has is open source, tether like you say, and customizations. Hardware is low grade..

[apatel51]

F apple and the Iphone.. Android has taken over the game. That is why I rid of my Iphone

[mahgninnuc93]

Actually there is an answer to all of this Apple nonsense. Don't know if anyone has touched on it. Ok boys and girls.....can anyone say CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT???

Hello, the iPhone is a product that most of us have "purchased"! Some at a subsidized rate, some at the full boat rate. But none the less, this product is MINE. Not Apples, not Steve Jobs, not my wife's, not yours, not my dog's (she's a mean beotch Sheppard)...BUT MINE!

Is there anyone who maybe knows an attorney who wants the press of representing thousands of iPhone users or maybe is that guy trolling the boards? I would do it, but I'm not an attorney, I only play one on the radio.

Might be something worth looking in to. How many people would be willing to be part of something like that?

[dieselxdan]

I agreed. It's the jailbreak/mods that makes iphone the fun phone. Who wants a boring phone that everyone has. It's all about customerizing.

[iLaw-One]

If apple manages to make the iphone unjailbreakable, then I'll DEFINITELY move over to Android...I'm already cheesed off as it is!!
I just can't see why apple would make such a great product and yet lock out it's main potentials!!!
Let's hope they (apple) see the hand-writing on the wall...others are catching up and developing products that would soon see the iphone kicked out of centre stage.

[matthew1111]

If we jailbreakers get stopped by this, hello to android...But seriously? Apple can't stop whats been going on for 2 years already at least. They can try, but the devs will always find away, even tethered. I just hope that it doesn't become officially illegal.

[Nelly729]

F^@K Apple! if they wanna go to war i say BRING IT ON!