I own an iPhone. Most people I know own an iPhone hell the chances are even you own an iPhone. They are a pretty popular little device and I still regard it as one of the better purchases that I have made in a while. I unlike most people do not feel the need to flash my purchase decision in the face of others. I am happy with the phone, it does what I want and and for what it can not do out of the box I have jailbroken it.
There seems to be an issue with some people that Jailbreak their iPhone however that seem to think they are entitled to do whatever they like with it and if Apple dare to attempt to stop Jailbreaking from working on the iPhone they throw a massive fit and generally spout such statements as the following:
“I paid for the phone, its my hardware I can do what I like!’
“Apple cant stop me from modifing the software, if microsoft did something like this people would be up in arms!”
“I dont see any other vendor acting like this, there is no way they could get away with!”
You people need to wake up, smell the flowers and welcome yourselves to the harsh reality of life. Dont get me wrong I love my Jailbroken phone I do but I am not deluded enough to think that I have a right to modify the firmware/software in such a manner without reprecussion or attempts to block such actions. A lot of these users like to pretend that Apple are the only provider on the planet that places such restrictions and takes such actions with its hardware and software.
How have you people so quickly forgotten the other large company that likes to pull this move and who has been doing so for at least the last four years? Sony has been attempting to crush the homebrew scene now with every update yet somehow you always failure to mention this in your little “social news” website comments. Better still how about you try and modify your Xbox or PS3 and then complain when you cant or complain when your console gets banned from the live service microsoft offers.
You all act as if Apple was the first and last to control their software/hardware intergration and all state that what they do is illegal and unjust compared to others in the market when it is clear they are just one of many in the pond. You should at least be thanking Apple for doing a pretty poor job of preventing such usage as Sony quite often managed lengthy wins against the Homebrew community in it’s time.
I believe more then most that hardware and software should be free to do with as you wish which is why I support both Open Software and the pandora project however its time that people realised that when you buy into a closed system you get what you pay for. Turning around after the fact and crying like a child and refuting all reputable eveidence just makes you look like a child.
If you are going to call one out at least call them all out because last I looked I could not legally modify half of everything in my house yet I dont feel the need to bring it up in every second twitter or digg post.
