twerppoet said:
Sad. And yet it is another reasons for Apple to continue to fight jailbreaking. Futile, of course, but many a good cause is hopeless of a final solutions.
@Sweetpoison - did that help?
Frankly, android doesn't have all these measures to counter piracy/modding, in fact modding is encouraged. That's exactly why android is gaining market share as quickly as it is. So what's 'good cause' about shutting down jailbreak? I'm not fanboy-ing here (I think) but apple needs to give developers a bit more room to play with the user interface. That's essentially what they're countering by shutting down jailbreak.
If they'd given us more features like theming and ridiculously obvious things like retinapad as iOS5 (on iPad) features instead of iMessage (think whatsapp) and social network integration (think rockmelt), maybe we wouldn't need to jailbreak.
So what I'm trying to say here is: either keep up with the game or stop trying to shut down the people who're trying to help you.
Apple has to do one of the two things to keep their lead on the market. Eventually the AppStore will be challenged by the Android Market, and without the AppStore's awesome app superiority, I doubt there'll be any reason, at least for me, to stick to iOS.
It'd be awesome if it came out soon!