Apple Says iPhone Security Fix in the Works
so the gov says ok for the jail break cust said dont care about warrenty
way to listen apple
They don't want customers coming in with jailbroken phones that are suffering from busted batteries, fried motherboards, or god knows what. They don't want people upset because they thought their phones were still under warranty, too.
They're not Motorola- they're not putting chips on the phone to detect non-authorized software.
Why do they tell people it will crash towers then? Why do they come out with new way to make it harder to JB?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/ »
Apple likes money...if people jailbreak their phones they can also unlock them. Unlocking means someone can take it to T-Mobile and then Apple is not longer getting the cut of the rev AT&T gives them per their agreement.
Also your warranty theory is only true if someone is dumb enough to take their phone to an apple store while it's still jailbroken. A restore to an original .ipsw or upgrading the OS through iTunes will remove the JB and the Apple store cannot tell and will swap out the phone. I kno...
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Apple's official stance is always going to be "don't jailbreak your phone" , but they're not hellbent on making sure people don't.
If you unlock your phone and cancel your AT&T service then you still pay a hefty ETF, which Apple gets a chunk of.
And yes, you'd have to be dumb enough to take it in without restoring, but I've seen people try. But I've also seen people jailbreak their iPhones and not be able to do a successful restore. Oops. You play with matches, you may get burned.
Trust me I fully understand the concept of companies feeding people BS info because the true reasons are not as P.R. friendly...but I guess it's new to you.
Also the "network obligations" Moto is referring
to is because VZW does not want people loading custom 2.2 ROMs with the native Tether app in Android because everyone with a Droid tethering will ,not may, cause network issues. That has nothing to do with rooting just the tether apps itself. Why are all the Palm Pres on all three networks that are rooted not causing any issues?
Please tell me you are ...
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Apple will do everything to secure their device, and if they could kill off jailbreaking permanently, I'm sure they would.
Fortunately for us jailbreakers, it's all a cat and mouse game that never ends. For every new feature they add, for every hole they patch, another one opens up that can be exploited. That is just what happens with every complex operating system consisting of millions of lines of code.
Also, jailbreaking being legal doesn't mean Apple has to allow it to happen. It only means that they can't take the customer who jailbreak into court, which they had never done...
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As a side note, Apple, HTC, Samsung, Moto, or whoever made the phone have never sued someone for doing this.
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