No matter which Apple related site you visit, the comments section seems to be filled with Apple fans accusing hackers and developers who developed non-apple sanctioned applications for the iPhone about crying unfair.
Apple is in the business of selling iPhone and ultimately their AAC locked in songs via itunes. Nobody seems to be grudging Apple the right to block their iPhone from being used on other networks (as they have a 2 year exclusivity contract with AT&T, which I believe is probably loosing Apple at lot of new customers, who want iPhone but do not want AT&T service) or the right to sell their ipod/phone locked down songs to users who want them. (If users are dumb enough to prefer buying songs that they can play only on their precious iPod/iPhone and nowhere else they should be allowed to do that, though I do prefer to be able to copy and play the same song on the multitude of portable players that I have, Sony Net MD, Sony Walkman, iPod Video 5th generation, iPhone and the list goes on)
What I however find distasteful is the fact that Apple deemed to find even innocent 3rd party applications like games (tic tac toe) etc as a threat to its monopolistic attitude about its products as now there is no way for those applications to be loaded with firmware 1.1.1 upgrade.
This cat and mouse game will probably keep going on for a while as hackers will ultimately succeed in finding a solution.
However if Apple keeps up with this practice they have far more to lose as they will inadvertently be causing problems for their loyal and faithful customers (who do not own a unlocked iPhone) by breaking stuff that should not have been broken etc, etc.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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