Sunday, October 3, 2010

Jailbreaking your iPhone? What's wrong with that?

Have you heard of jailbreaking your mobile equipment such as your iPod or iPhone? I got an iPhone last December. Almost immediately I had it jailbroken. Jailbreaking allows you to use third party apps. There are also other repositories that give you access to a database of "cracked" apps. The third party apps are okay. Cracking, distributing, and using an app without the expressed written permission of it's author is illegal according to copyright laws. While the act of jailbreaking has been recently deemed perfectly legal by the supreme court, Apple still keeps their eyes open for the latest jailbreak competition. They do this as an excuse for making "updates" to their equipment. My suggestion to Apple is to pursue those that steal software more and those that are doing what the courts have say they can less. Apple claims jailbreaking is patent infringement. My argument is that once you buy the equipment, it is yours to do what you like with. I now own an iPhone 4 with the latest update installed. I patiently wait for the newest jailbreak to come out so I can use those third party apps like the one that allows me to put seven rows of seven apps on each screen or the one that allows me to use video background. What's wrong with that?

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