Apple iPhone: Should Jailbreaking your iPhone become legal?
Filed under: Cell Phone Information, Cell Phones | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
We’re pretty sure most of you know what the term ‘jailbreaking’ means when it comes to the Apple iPhone. It allows users to alter their software to enable third-party applications amongst other things. Well Apple has finally started to comment on the topic, in a response to news that the process could become legal for users.
According to this article from BetaNews, Apple have called jailbreaking your iPhone ‘hacking’ and are unsuprisingly against users modifying their iPhone or iPod Touch.
Here is a statement issued by Apple talking about all about jailbreaking and the dangers it could cause to your iPhone:
“Frequent and unexpected crashes of the device, crashes and freezes of built-in apps and third-party apps, and loss of data. Security compromises have been introduced by these modifications that could allow hackers to steal personal information, damage the device, attack the wireless network, or introduce malware or viruses.”
Its interesting to find that Apple are only reacting to the whole jailbreaking issue now after the Electronic Frontier Foundation have pushed to make the process legal.
What are your opinions on jailbreaking? Do you think it should become legal or not? Give your reasons below.
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Someone ought to slap Steve Jobs around a bit, it’s not like Apple and AT&T aren’t making money. His (and Apple’s) attitude is to punish inventiveness? That is not what Apple used to be. Now it’s all about the Benjamins, isn’t it? So why should they get to control the devices we pay for? The logic they have espoused is faulty and a Busherian scare tactic at best. I have an iPhone hacked and unlocked. AT&T canceled my account and now wants to collect over $700. F-Them. My phone works fine on T-Mobile and it has not crashed once or lost one bit of data. It used to ruin my address book with high regularity when I synced with MobileMe through AT&T.
Illegal? That’s insanity. Once you purchase a product, what you do with it is your own business. What would make Apple think that they have ANY control over a product that they have sold and therefore do not own!