Comments on: Apple Sez iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal

By: Dave the Great

Dave the Great — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:26:33 +0000

If they crack down they’ll lose at least like 80% of their sales..

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:47:30 +0000

YEAH!!!

By: Mk12

Mk12 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:55:31 +0000

I didn’t jailbreak to pirate things or do anything illegal. I jailbreaked because i’m not a clueless user like apple assumes everyone is. It’s my iPod Touch, I’ll connect it to my computer and run redsn0w if I want to. I’m still waiting for Steve Jobs to come knocking on my door. I’m not buying another iPod touch or iPhone if jailbreaking will be impossible. What they’re doing is ruining it for eveyone that actually knows what they’re doing… The iPhone can do so much more then apple limits it to. If apples doesn’t want people to jailbreak, they shouldn’t waste time trying to make it illegal, they should relax their grip and atleast provide the harmless things like themes. Just because I can get cracked games doesn’t mean I will and doesn’t mean jailbreaing is illegal. Pirating is already illegal so stop wasting time Apple. And anyway I’m Canadian not american and this is apple USA, as others have pointed out. Does apple really think they can track down every jailbroken iPhone, or scare anyone away from jailbreaking with there empty declaration of it being illegal?

By: iPodTouch

iPodTouch — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:53:21 +0000

Oh, i heard about this, tbh… they can’t change the laws, this is basicly what people are saying. Jailbraking realy can’t be illegal, 1. If you are not selling jailbraking products 2. you can’t sell jailboken ipods/iphones. Also, jailbraking is for personal use only, apple’s legal agreement (on the about section on your ipod) it states YOU MAY EDIT THIS SOFTWARE FOR PERSONAL USE, AND DISTRIBUTE IT WITH REGARDS TO THE OWNER…. so technicly its legal still (for all i know it is in the UK) but aslong as you don’t realy do illegal stuff ie download installous or that its not realy illegal, but what, are the flipping FBI or CIA, mi5 ect, going to ‘raid’ your house and chuck you in a cell or something for jailbraking yur PAID device. apple brought the jailbraking upon their self, the didn’t give us open soure fw’s mabey people would love apple if they made a firmware 3.1.0 or a 3.0.1 edit or something (an update for 3.0) maby sell it for £1.00 or $2.00. It’s upto the owner of what they done.

By: bendermaster

bendermaster — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:52:44 +0000

I’m never going to pay full price for a game again, flash cards for the win!

By: Jek

Jek — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:54 +0000

Hey Apple, come and get me. I mean, are they seriously going to shut down Jailbreaking, ever. I mean, seriously, if you want to get pirated stuff you don’t need an iPhone to do it. All you need is a laptop, and you don’t see those blocking downloads and allowing only approved apps. Come on Apple, just stfu and deal with it. If you want to stop us from jailbreaking, go ahead try, shut down the Dev Team and another will pop up.

By: TheFuzzball

TheFuzzball — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:14:27 +0000

I will jailbreak my property if I wish to. I’m not hurting anyone and I just want to get the best out of my product. I don’t question my morality for “breaking the law” in this way simply because the Apple founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were members of the “Phone Phreaking” group that was popular in the 70s, basically they were manipulating the phone networks to get free phone calls. Now, why should I respect them by not hacking my own phone when they hacked public telephone networks and were never prosecuted?

By: The People's Speaker

The People's Speaker — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:50:15 +0000

Go Austin! I agree..

By: The People's Speaker

The People's Speaker — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:48:43 +0000

especially in the these times.. give us a break please.. there are bigger things in the world to worry about.. like THE PURCHASE of apple phones because they are so pricey perhaps?

By: The People's Speaker

The People's Speaker — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:45:57 +0000

I think I speak for many here in saying that, if the EFF, or APPLE decide to punish people for buying things and thus doing what they want with it BECAUSE THEY OWN IT (since they BOUGHT it fair and square) there will be an uprising!

Just like Obama used grassroots initiatives to win the election and change the country for the better, iPhoners everywhere just might do the same. You'd be surprised what the "little man" can do in these situations (when companies and controlling organizations get a lil too big for their britches)

I think most ppl are respectful folk, who just want to use something they purchased without dumb stipulations. Like many others have said, there's no Copy and Paste, and buying an iphone w/o the ability to jailbreak it would be like buying a car without being able to go under the hood and fix it yourself. Or buying a computer and not being able to change your wallpaper or screensaver or not being able to date outside your race! It's just absurd!!!

Don't turn your fans away, Jobs (and EFF). The people will always win.

Go Mozilla and Skype for challenging the powers that BE!