If anything, these hackers are leeches. They wait for some company to spend millions on software and hardware R&D, get subsidies for the hardware, and then rip it open, demanding that they have full control of every aspect of the product. I'm not necessarily anti-iPhone hacking, but to act like it's your God given right to control unmarketed aspects of a product by giving Apple the proverbial software finger, is stupid. If it weren't for these "big evil corporate money grubbing companies", you all would probably be hacking an abacus.
not everyone is like that. I for one, like when devices are locked down, because it means that I get to have fun cracking it open. the Palm Pre, for example, is no fun in my mind, because you can flash firmware unsigned and execute unsigned code from boootloader level with no additional hacking, so it's all done for you. most of the people I hack with anyway, I can't speak for devteam, do this just because hacking it is fun, not because of "evil corporate greed" or some kind of weird hippie excuse.
They do it to make money, not some "good faith action" towards society. It's a company, not a humanity effort. Quit lauding them as if they're some kind of saint for producing something for you to buy. They're just like every other company.
They make a product that does X, Y, and Z. People want to be able to do A, B, and C on their phone too. They don't actually support that so a group of people do something so that A, B, and C can be done on aforementioned phone. That's all it is. When you start getting into the ethics of it, we could be here all then because it is subjective. Not to mention, lots of people do completely "ethical" things with their jailbroken phones. What's wrong with wanting a simple icon on the top right when you have unread emails, text messages, or other things?
These things don't necessarily undermine Apple/AT&T directly. Think about the Linksys WRT546G. Do you know why that router is probably one of the best wireless routers you can get? Because it's cheap and runs homebrew firmware (DD-WRT namely) like a champ. I wouldn't buy a router that couldn't run DD-WRT and when I bought the Linksys WRT350N, I bought it because it was the best performer on DD-WRT's site at the time.
Guess why I bought my PSP? Guess why I bought a Linksys NSLU2 a while back? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't the original firmware or capabilities that impressed me.
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If anything, these hackers are leeches. They wait for some company to spend millions on software and hardware R&D, get subsidies for the hardware, and then rip it open, demanding that they have full control of every aspect of the product. I'm not necessarily anti-iPhone hacking, but to act like it's your God given right to control unmarketed aspects of a product by giving Apple the proverbial software finger, is stupid. If it weren't for these "big evil corporate money grubbing companies", you all would probably be hacking an abacus.
not everyone is like that. I for one, like when devices are locked down, because it means that I get to have fun cracking it open. the Palm Pre, for example, is no fun in my mind, because you can flash firmware unsigned and execute unsigned code from boootloader level with no additional hacking, so it's all done for you. most of the people I hack with anyway, I can't speak for devteam, do this just because hacking it is fun, not because of "evil corporate greed" or some kind of weird hippie excuse.
They do it to make money, not some "good faith action" towards society. It's a company, not a humanity effort. Quit lauding them as if they're some kind of saint for producing something for you to buy. They're just like every other company.
They make a product that does X, Y, and Z. People want to be able to do A, B, and C on their phone too. They don't actually support that so a group of people do something so that A, B, and C can be done on aforementioned phone. That's all it is. When you start getting into the ethics of it, we could be here all then because it is subjective. Not to mention, lots of people do completely "ethical" things with their jailbroken phones. What's wrong with wanting a simple icon on the top right when you have unread emails, text messages, or other things?
These things don't necessarily undermine Apple/AT&T directly. Think about the Linksys WRT546G. Do you know why that router is probably one of the best wireless routers you can get? Because it's cheap and runs homebrew firmware (DD-WRT namely) like a champ. I wouldn't buy a router that couldn't run DD-WRT and when I bought the Linksys WRT350N, I bought it because it was the best performer on DD-WRT's site at the time.
Guess why I bought my PSP? Guess why I bought a Linksys NSLU2 a while back? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't the original firmware or capabilities that impressed me.
If it wasn't for being able to jailbreak my iPhone, I probably wouldn't even buy one and Apple wouldn't get my business. Your logic is faulty ChrisM.