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  Dan Jones

  1 year ago

  Are you kidding me? You actually believe the hackers are in the wrong, here? How would you feel if you went to your local Ford dealership, and bought a new car, but they told you that you're not allowed to put in a new stereo, you can't adjust the seat, and you can't even open the hood. In fact, the only thing you're allowed to change on it is filling up the gas tank. Would that seem right to you? After all, you bought the car: it belongs to you. Who are they to say how you can and can't use it?

  
  

  That's essentially what Apple has done with the iPhone. They've sold you a device that you can only use within the narrow parameters that they've given. "Hacking" the iPhone is not illegal, and certainly not immoral. All the hackers have done is try to make the phone usable in a way that pleases them.

  
  

  Really, the solution is to not buy an iPhone, but unfortunately, there aren't any other smartphones yet that have the feature set for that price. The Linux-based GTA02, which will hopefully come out this month comes extremely close, and actively encourages REAL third-party apps (not just crappy web-based Javascript ones you can view in Safari), and works on any GSM network. Unfortunately, it'll be a couple hundred dollars more than the iPhone.

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  uncle_jesse

  1 year ago

  Dan,

  
  

  Where are you getting that I think the hackers are in the wrong? You should really read my blog more. I'm simply providing a solution to Apple that I think could work for them. It wouldn't please the hackers, I agree - I hacked my phone too. It wouldn't please me either, but for the majority of their customers, it would please them - Apple's having a hard enough time just pleasing their regular, non-hacker customers lately.

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